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Noeline Angus and Lorraine Shaab with a huge mooring rope found near a seal colony in Wellington Harbour.
Fishhooks, hundreds of shoes, 160 coffee sacks of rubbish, 48 tyres and 15 crayfish pots. That is just some of the rubbish Lorraine Shaab and Noeline Angus have removed from a seal colony on the Wainuiomata Coast, near Wellington, during the past year. It would be easy to be discouraged by the mountain of rubbish facing them but Shaab said the pair have a simple motivation. “It is rewarding when you know there are all those seals out there.” About 500 seals spend the winter at Turakirae Head and although she has not seen any entangled in the flotsam, she said it is only a matter of time before a seal suffers.