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Touring the Coromandel Peninsula

Thames – Fish and aquaculture sales at Thames Wholesale Fisheries on Shortland Wharf. Phone 07-868-6528

Waikawau – closest boat launching site to Wilson’s Bay mussel farms, which offer excellent fi shing. To visit or fi sh off the mussel farms, you can also take a range of chartered trips such as barge fi shing or kayaking – most of which leave from further up the coast at Te Kouma.

Coromandel Township (see expanded map)

Whitianga – The OPC mussel-processing factory is the major aquaculture factory on the Coromandel. 271 South Highway – with tours by appointment. Phone +64 7 866 2486.

Scallop Festival – an opportunity to celebrate the seafood and wine of the Coromandel, which is held around August/September each year.

Coromandel’s East Coast – a range of excellent fi shing, diving and adventure tourism (see Whitianga Information Centre for details)

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Ferry – 360° Discovery Cruises Hannaford’s Wharf, Te Kouma Road

This is where the 360° Discovery Ferry arrives from downtown Auckland, and where a bus will take you to Coromandel Township.

Sugarloaf WharfTe Kouma Road

This is where the aquaculture industry operates from, bringing products ashore for market. It is also a launching place for recreational boaties, and where most fi shing charters depart from.

Coromandel Oyster Company Ltd1611 SH25, Tiki Road

Phone: +64 7 866 8028Email: corooysterco@farmside.co.nzThe Coromandel Oyster Company have been growing oysters for over 20 years, and their aim is to provide premium Coromandel fresh-farmed oysters at an affordable price. You can buy them whole shell, ½ shell or pots. They also sell fresh local mussels, their own smoked and marinated mussels, prawns, local scallops, kina and smoked seafood, drinks, sauces, souvenirs. Open 7 days, 9am - 5pm.

Coromandel Mussel KitchenCorner of SH25 and 309 Road

Phone: +64 7 866 7245Web: www.musselkitchen.co.nzThe Coromandel Mussel Kitchen offers a unique experience, as the owners are working mussel farmers who cultivate, harvest and cook the mussels for your meal. This guarantees freshness that is full of fl avour and quality. This is a place where you can come along and enjoy Coromandel’s freshest green-lipped mussels, and watch some handmade value-added products like mussel chowder being prepared – and have the opportunity to buy some to take away with you. Open 7 days a week for lunch from the 1st Sept- 31st May.

The Coromandel Smoking Company70 Tiki Rd, Coromandel Town (next to the BP)

Phone: +64 7 866 8793Web: www.corosmoke.co.nzThe Coromandel Smoking Shop is one of those “must visit” experiences. This small family business brings you a wide range of gourmet-smoked seafood including the fi nest quality smoked mussels, oysters and fi sh delicacies. If you are looking for a tasty picnic, evening nibbles or an easy meal, then this is the place to stop. Open 7 days.

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Coromandel i-Site355 Kapanga Road, Coromandel Town

Phone: 07-866 8598Email: coroinfo@ihug.co.nzWeb: www.coromandeltown.co.nzThe friendly local site for tourist information. Check out the historic township with its many attractions. The Info Centre also provides details of aquaculture and fi shing operators. Open 7 days.

Coromandel WharfWharf Road

Drive into Coromandel township, and turn left into Wharf Road. The wharf is about 2 minutes drive along the foreshore.This wharf is the base for some commercial fi shing boats, and also recreational boaties who wish to refuel. Some people try hand-line fi shing off the end of the wharf, which is tidal. From the wharf, there is a good view of the oysters farms in the adjacent bay.

Pacifi c Marine Farms Oyster Factory1570 Long Bay Road, Coromandel

Phone: 07 866 8564This factory processes oysters farmed from the Coromandel and Northland. The oysters are mostly grown on inter-tidal oyster farms, where they are exposed at low tide (like the ones in the harbour in front of the factory). The Pacifi c Marine Farm factory exports its produce to countries like Australia, Japan, USA, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore. Sales of oysters are available from the factory shop.

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Fishing is abundant off the mussel farms near Waikawau

Local RestaurantsMouth-watering aquaculture delicacies such as mussels, oysters and paua, as well as a wide range of other seafood, are expertly cooked for your enjoyment at a number of top-class restaurants throughout the Coromandel Peninsula.

So if you are in Coromandel looking for a delicious feed, take a walk through the township, or call into the Information Centre for contact details. A number of top restaurants and cafes are also listed in the “Homegrown Food Trail”, which is available both as a brochure and online at www.thecoromandel.com.

Joining the TrailIf you are travelling in a vehicle, then you will probably join the Aquaculture Trail from Thames. This means you can either drive up the Thames Coast Road towards Coromandel Township, or you can head towards Tairua on the east coast and drive up through Whitianga.

If you are in Auckland then you can catch a ferry with 360° Discovery Cruises. This ferry departs from the downtown ferry terminal in Auckland. Duration of ferry ride - 1 hr 50 mins each way.When you travel to Coromandel, your ferry will arrive at Hannaford’s Wharf. A free courtesy bus meets all arriving and departing ferries providing a shuttle to/from the centre of Coromandel Town. A choice of bus tours, shuttle services and group charters are available to you, or why not pick up a rental vehicle so you can travel around the area at your own pace. If you are a cyclist, take your bike on the ferry (for free!), or inquire at the i-Site about bicycle hire.

To book your cruise, phone 0800 360 3472 Discovery (0800 360 3472) or visit www.360discovery.co.nz

For more details about the activities contained in this brochure, please contact i-Site Coromandel on 07 866 8598, email them on

coroinfo@ihug.co.nz or visit www.coromandeltown.co.nz.

In addition, for more exciting activities around the whole Peninsula visit www.thecoromandel.com

This Coromandel Aquaculture Trail has been developed by the Hauraki Coromandel Development Group in conjunction with the Coromandel Marine Farmers Association

and New Zealand Trade and Enterprise.

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The Coromandel is the North Island’s aquaculture capital, thanks to our region’s warm sheltered waters, clean healthy environment and vibrant aquaculture industry. Amidst the pristine waters of the Hauraki Gulf our aquaculture farmers currently produce more than 20% of New Zealand’s mussels and oysters – both for local consumption and for export.

To explore the story of how this delicious farmed seafood makes its way from the ocean to your plate, then join the Aquaculture Trail and read the website on www.coromandelaquaculture.co.nz. This will provide you with opportunities to see where our mussels and oysters come from, how they are farmed and processed, and where you can savour these seafood delicacies during your stay. If you are keen on fi shing, then don’t miss taking a charter trip out to the mussel farms, which attract abundant wild fi sh.

What is Aquaculture?Aquaculture is seafood that is farmed in the ocean, rather than being caught by fi shing. As the pioneer French oceanographer and environmentalist Jacques Cousteau said “We must turn to the sea with new understanding and new technology. We need to farm it as we farm the land.”

In the Coromandel, we currently focus on farming shellfi sh like mussels and oysters. In other parts of New Zealand, fi nfi sh are also farmed, and salmon farming is already at $100 million a year industry in Marlborough. Finfi sh farming is now on the horizon in the Coromandel, with the potential for farming of native species like kingfi sh and hapuka in coming years.

In the meantime, Coromandel aquaculture brings in about $50 million a year in revenue, and employs more than 400 people. Given the growing global demand for aquaculture, there is potential for the industry to more than double in size by 2025.

To fi nd out more about the Coromandel aquaculture industry, and to get details about the trail go to www.coromandelaquaculture.co.nz

Mussel Barge & Kayak Fishing

As the mussel farms attract large numbers of fi sh, there are a lot of

tourists and locals who like to go out fi shing beside the farms – particularly the big farm off Wilsons Bay.

To cater for this demand, there are a number of charter vessels operating from Coromandel harbour. They tend to launch primarily from Te Kouma Road, either at the Hannifords Wharf or the Sugarloaf Wharf – although some also operate from Waikawau. For details of mussel barge fi shing operators, ring the Information Centre i-Site Coromandel on 07 866 8598 or check their website on www.coromandeltown.co.nz

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