News | Yacht & Boat: "According to MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (MAFBNZ), our waters and coastal environments are coming under increasing threat from “foreign” marine organisms, two-thirds of which have arrived on the hulls of visiting vessels from large merchant ships to small cruising yachts.
One example is the Australian sea squirt, Eudistoma elongatum. Over the past few summers, this unsightly white sausage-like organism has been steadily infecting Northland bays and Dirty propeller not anitfouledharbours. It probably arrived in New Zealand on the hull of an ocean-going vessel and is now so prevalent in the area that it is too widespread to tackle effectively"
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