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I wonder what its like in a stir fry ? Bit of Tamari organic soy ......

Can I just point out this is the best debate on crew org in quite some time .

It involved a boat and water and champagne but no sails

Did she mean she has been listening to the Akaranas plans and vision for the hardstand.

Im clearly too slow, but would love to hear how they perform

Your question suggests that it has? It sinks and it doesn't survive at depth. The world's currents take around 500years to do a full circle of the planet so it's had 23 million years to get to our coast. In that time it hasn't made it across vast distances. New Zealand isn't special in this regard, it also hasn't made it (naturally) to West or East Coast of the Americas which are a sh*t load longer than NZs coast. As we've read in this thread it also hasn't made it naturally into the Med. I suspect that the warm surface currents of the tropics only carry it so far before it

How did they spread before we invented boats?

There are potential positives to Caulerpa: We have a problem with kina barrens right? If kina eat this stuff they go sterile. So, it may well create suitable habitat for nursery fish, and, tadaa, re-balance the Hauraki Gulf. Providing the caulerpa doesn't smother other food sources, this could work really well. The photos I've seen show the eclonia still growning, with the caulerpa around the base. Could just work. The other thing is the carbon sequestered growing this stuff. Carbon sequestered in the oceans is enough to reverse climate change. There are many projects underway to gro

You happy lads obviously havent noticed the large superyachts around the barrier in the last couple of years, these boats have a number of internal raw water systems that can carry large volumes from country to country

I am not suggesting for a moment that your unnamed gagged experts opinion is impossible as others have pointed out strange things happen. You asked "what basis do I have". And after giving you my basis you proceed to hurl abuse. I think his opinion is unlikely for the reasons I have given. At no point did I say it's not used. Just not widely used. If you live on Great Barrier and are going to import an illegal aquarium plant you're probably going to import the most popular which is of course Aquarium Caulerpa. Snapper aren't widely seen in home Aquarium's either. Bu

this runs at the level of paranoia seen in various other conspiracy theories. You'll be burning effagies on the steps of Parliament next. Commercial shipping and others can be addressed directly - its a pretty small group, easily identified and well controlled. Recreational boats, not so much. The various statements from Regional Councils, MPI etc to "boaties" (a broad church that covers everyone from the owner of a 4m tinny to the Gin Palace brigade) are communications to the largest un-unified group. That group is largely ignorant of the biology, the risks and the methods of con