By Seeker Team, Seeker.com, November 3, 2016
A New Zealand teenager creates a way for divers to gather only shells that are of legal size, without having to touch, and possibly harm, the undersized ones.
A teenager and budding inventor in Auckland, New Zealand named Mitchell Hollows had a problem. He enjoyed diving to gather paua – the Maori name for an edible shellfish, referred to in the United States as abalone – but only paua of a certain size can be legally removed from the sea, and he knew that any undersized shells he gathered could bleed to death when placed back on the rocks where they were found.
