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Earlier this month, the coalition government agreed Parliament should pass the Hauraki Gulf Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Bill.
It will create 19 new marine protection areas, but it comes with amendments that some are calling "a kick in the face".
Professor Simon Thrush is director of the George Mason Centre for the Natural Environment at the Institute of Marine Science at the University of Auckland.
He joined Mihi to explain what's happening with the Hauraki Gulf.
