We need to keep cockles and not overharvest them or else shorebirds and cockles will be eternally extinct!

Today we conducted research linked with the regulations
the MAF (Ministry of Agriculture/Fisheries) related to the
number of shellfish that is by law allowed to be taken by each
individual person who is involved in the process of digging for
shellfish. The law states that around Auckland and the Coromandel
only 50 cockles can be taken by one digger each day.

Links to backup my information

Te Ara Encyclopedia

SeafoodS.com/Cockles

I believe people should keep this regulation and only
harvest 50 cockles for each digger.  If this law is not obeyed
and followed, we might overharvest our beaches, which will extinct
the species and leave us with no more cockles to eat and/or sell.

As the Encyclopedia dictates, shellfish are seafood, like
mussels and golden snappers. Cockles are 'bivalve', so they
have a compressed shell. The cockles eat by extending a 'foot'
to catch their food and put it inside their shell, then they digest it.
The species has a giant risk of overharvest, and their ability to
recover is very sterile.

Cockles are found exclusively only in New Zealand, with some
relatives relating to clams.

Shorebirds feed on cockles, because they have no other
food to feed on. Consequently because of human activity,
shorebirds have become endangered and are at the brink of
extinction.

The reason is when diggers overharvest, there aren't enough
food for all the shorebirds to eat, thus threatening their species.

To sum it up, I strongly believe that we should be limited to
only 50 cockles so that there will be enough for plentiful harvests
and so the other species that feeds on these creatures will not
be gone from extinction.

-By Kevin Sabdao

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