Seaweed that washes ashore along Ninety Mile Beach, Northland, is often covered in tiny shellfish. Known as spat, they are the juvenile stage of green-lipped mussels – the main shellfish grown in aquaculture farms in New Zealand. The tiny shellfish are attached to this mass of cast-up seaweed.
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