Pregnant female, 170 cm TL, c. 35 kg, tail-wrapped and drowned on a longline, eight to ten 30 cm pups released alive.
Photographs courtesy of Richard Coxon.
I know this is not the smallest one - glove marks on second photo 10mm apart. Grazing in the intertidal at night.
How exciting. Last year we found one T.malvina in the neighbour's property but this year when I went to check that spot, none on his place but a colony now on my place.
Remains of the blue tide at Piha today. Noticed a lot of these blowing up into the dunes. Should make for a nice input of nutrients.
I also couldn't help but notice all of the small plastic fragments in the drift. They were everywhere you looked.
estimated length 3.66 m (12 ft)
12-13 m depth, SST 15.7 Celsius
Frame grabs taken from video provided courtesy of Owen and Indah Wilson.
Frolicking just off Kokota south of the mouth of the Parengarenga.