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Good riddance – Job well DUNNE

The State Services Commission recently announced that they were getting rid of the Ministry for Primary Industries’ Director-General Martyn Dunne, by retiring him.

He will be replaced by the Corrections chief executive Ray Smith.

The Coalition Government says the move reflects its desire to implement a more unified old-style public service.

Ironically, Ray Smith’s Department of Corrections breached the Convention against Torture, by subjecting prisoners to inhumane, cruel, and degrading treatment.

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Half the fishery bio-mass killed on purpose

Page 8 - Marlborough Salmon Farm in Hot Water Page 9-

New Zealand’s hoki fishery under scrutiny

Page 11- Chinese owner fights access to Forest Park Page 14- Hidden Dangers of Pesticides in Storage Page 15 - Bring back plenty to the bay

Martyn Dunne

Smith described it as a last-option tool for managing prisoner’s behaviours. Government may be

thinking that this last-option enforcement approach, is what’s needed to clean up the systemic

criminality that, for too long, has prevailed in the fishing industry.

But, MPI’s senior leadership team also needs to go. They have incompetently allowed devastation in almost every sector of our Primary Industries, and that’s to say nothing of the potential serious misconduct that the State Services Commission is only beginning to investigate.

Interestingly enough the reasons around why Scott Gallagher, Andrew Coleman and David Turner mysteriously resigned from their highly paid positions when they were implicated in the skulduggery going on in the MPI at the time. What is the truth around these resignations?

Where they heavily involved in the surveillance of kiwis through Thompson and Clark Investigations Ltd which the SSC consider to be extremely inappropriate?

Of note is that Dunne gets retired a week before the SSC announces their investigations.

With the extinction of crayfish from Area 2, Myrtle Rust, Velvetleaf, Bonamia ostreae in farmed oysters, kauri dieback, PSA in kiwifruit, herbicide-tolerant swedes causing cow deaths...... the list goes on.

Like dumping and underreporting of catches, MPI’s senior leadership team are about as transparent as an organised crime syndicate.

Rachel Stewart recently wrote that “they are good at professional spin and obfuscation, and all designed to make it hard to know where to point the bone”.

Clearly that bone is Martyn Dunne, who managed the senior leadership team - ‘inglorious bastards’,

undisciplined, unscrupulous, secretive and arrogant. Dunne should be held accountable for destroying much of NZ’s economic development in fisheries and other primary industry sectors, and particularly any misconduct that occurred under his watch. National’s misguided mandate to double primary sector exports by 2025 has been a miserable failure. The previous National government must be congratulated on Dunne’s horrible track record

and the mess he is leaving behind.

It’s just one thing after another.

Dunne and his senior leadership team’s contribution to New Zealand’s well-being, leaves one completely bewildered: - Hiding the Marlborough Sounds Salmon virus issues; - Hiding the introduction of Myrtle Rust that could wipe out the Ma-

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This Blue Fin Tuna was landed near Mahia by Roger Halliwell.

This Broadbill Swordfish was caught by angler Dwayne Sweeney, fishing on board Albatross with Skipper Luke Gilbert and Crewmen Max Gilbert. The Broadbill Swordfish took 40 minutes to boat and weighed in at 161.5 kg.

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Whangarei winners of team’s event

Whangarei Boys High School has two teams competing in the clay target competitions this year. They had 2 teams last season, but due to 5 boys leaving at the end of the school last year, they only had 1 team of 7 until now. They have bought 3 younger less experienced shooters through to make the second team.

Recently they had the “Kaikohe” shoot, which had to be held at Mangapai, as the WBHS range was unavailable to host the competition.

The WBHS team 1 won the team’s event, with the Tauaroa - Whatatiri team coming second and Tauaroa #1 coming 3rd.

Our less experienced team came in 6th place out of a total of 7 teams.

Within our team, Damian Bruce took out the Point Score competition with a total of 59/60, and William Hamlin came 3rd in the single barrel competition.

During May the Clay target team attended another secondary school shooting comp. This one was held in Kaitaia.

We came in First Place Overall (Team) with 423/475 High Over All Boys - William Hamlin 91/95 Point Score - Jacob Kennedy 1st with 59/60.

Single Rise - William Hamlin and Zack Houghton had full scores. 20/20.

Single Barrel - Zack Houghton and William Hamlin both scored 14/15. Zack placed 2nd and William 3rd after the shootout.

Marinade for Game Meat

By Sharon Johansen

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Cover story continued... nuka honey industry – said by MPI to have arrived via a bird or wind; - Buried all the fisheries compliance reports. When some were leaked MPI said prosecuting commercial fishers was a waste of time, but they thought nothing of prosecuting recreational fishers; - Ineffective response to Kauri dyeback - councils did one thing while MPI did little to nothing; - Kiwifruit PSA virus, almost wiped out the entire green kiwifruit sector which saw the growers take MPI to court; -Covered up the Oyster virus while it hit the industry hard. MPI covered it up instead of taking early action to contain and eradicate it;

- Deliberately denied the high levels of dumping, underreporting and overfishing despite having detailed reports to the contrary abhorrent; - Mycoplasma Bovis debacle, which they knew about 2 years ago and covered it up; - Then we have the illegal surveillance! What have the MPI got to be scared of that it has to put NZ citizens under surveillance? This shows a complete lack of gonads by a completely inefficient and bungling bunch of incompetent bureaucrats.

- The Chathams Islands paua fishery confidentially mismanaged

by MPI against the requests of the Chathams Islands Paua industry. (see story on Page 2)

- The MPI are also shareholders in Animal Control Products who are ultimately responsible in breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi and the RMA with the spreading of poisons over our forests and the killing most of our native birds.

This list of serious offences shows that MPI is utterly incompetent, with responsibility vested in Dunne and his senior leadership team. It time for MPI’s senior leadership to follow their leader out the door!

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Seafood Chowder Ingredients: 250gm scallops – cut in quarters 250 gm crab meat - chopped 500gm fresh white fish – cut into 20cm squares 250 gm chopped fresh greenlipped mussels, chopped 200 gm shrimps 50gm butter 30gm flour 250gm potatoes, peeled and diced small

350ml fish stock Tin of coconut milk Tin of coconut cream 1 diced onion 1 stick celery stick, chopped 1 carrot chopped small 1 chopped green onion 1 crushed garlic clove 50ml white wine Salt and pepper to taste 20ml lime juice Tbsp parsley (garnish)

Making a baby

Melt the butter in a saucepan.

Gently fry the onion and garlic.

Add flour and mix into a paste, add milk and thicken to a white sauce.

Slowly add fish stock so you don’t get any lumps.

Add potatoes, white wine, fish, scallops and mussels.

Cook for 20-30 minutes on gentle simmer. Add coconut cream and milk, lime juice and gently simmer for a further five minutes.

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The Smiths were unable to conceive children and decided to use a surrogate father to start their family. On the day the proxy father was to arrive, Mr. Smith kissed his wife goodbye and said, ‘Well, I’m off now. The man should be here soon.’

Half an hour later, just by chance, a door-to-door baby photographer happened to ring the doorbell, hoping to make a sale. ‘Good morning, Ma’am’, he said, ‘I’ve come to...’

‘Oh, no need to explain,’ Mrs. Smith cut in, embarrassed, ‘I’ve been expecting you.’

‘Have you really?’ said the photographer. ‘Well, that’s good. Did you know babies are my specialty?’

‘Well that’s what my husband and I had hoped. Please come in and have a seat !.

After a moment she asked, blushing, ‘Well, where do we start?’

‘Leave everything to me. I usually try two in the bathtub, one on the couch, and perhaps a couple on the bed. And sometimes the living room floor is fun. You can really spread out there.’

‘Bathtub, living room floor? No wonder it didn’t work out for Harry and me!’

‘Well, Ma’am, none of us can guarantee a good one every time. But if we try several different positions and I shoot from six or seven angles, I’m sure you’ll be pleased with the results.’

‘My, that’s a lot!’, gasped Mrs. Smith..

‘Ma’am, in my line of work a man has to take his time. I’d love to be In and out in five minutes, but I’m sure you’d be disappointed with that.’

‘Don’t I know it,’ said Mrs. Smith quietly.

The photographer opened his briefcase and pulled out a portfolio of his baby pictures. ‘This was done on the top of a bus,’ he said.

‘Oh, my God!’ Mrs. Smith exclaimed, grasping at her throat.

‘And these twins turned out exceptionally well - when you consider their mother was so difficult to work with.’

‘She was difficult?’ asked Mrs. Smith.

‘Yes, I’m afraid so. I finally had to take her to the park to get the job done right. People were crowding around four and five deep to get a good look’ ‘Four and five deep?’ said Mrs. Smith, her eyes wide with amazement..

‘Yes’, the photographer replied. ‘And for more than three hours, too. The mother was constantly squealing and yelling - I could hardly concentrate, and when darkness approached I had to rush my shots. Finally, when the possums began nibbling on my equipment, I just had to pack it all in’ Mrs. Smith leaned forward. ‘Do you mean they actually chewed on your, uh...equipment?’

‘It’s true, Ma’am, yes. Well, if you’re ready, I’ll set-up my tripod and we can get to work right away.’

‘Tripod?’ she queried, nearly fainting.

‘Oh yes, Ma’am. I need to use a tripod to rest my Canon on. It’s much too big to be held in the hand for long.’

Mrs Smith fainted!!

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Cambridge Home Kill have moved

Cambridge Home Kill have moved Finding the previous premises on Albert Street Cambridge a little

small for their growing business Trevor and Jenny had an opportunity to purchase a new property at

the old Pet Food company called Fond Foods Ltd premises at 152 Queen Street just down the road.

They put all hands on deck recently and have now moved into the new site.

“We have lots more space now” said Trevor “and we can now look forward to better customer service for our many clientele.”

“We had to spend a few dollars to modify the property, but for what we have it is well worthwhile.”

All the phone numbers etc remain the same.

Half the fishery bio-mass killed on purpose The commercial fishers of NZ and MPI have made a serious tactical mistake. They both tried to increase and fight for more Snapper and Blue Cod for the export trade.

Don’t these two groups get through there thick heads that neither the recreational fishers nor the customary fishers want Snapper and Blue Cod to be an export fish.

The retailers and fish and chip shops want more Snapper and Blue Cod in their shops because people recognize the taste of these fish and want more of it.

The tourist knows exactly what Snapper and Blue Cod are and many of them in holiday mode expect and are willing to pay for the best holiday experience NZ has to offer, that includes what they eat.

But no, MPI is hell-bent on putting as much of our outstanding inshore fishery on a plane for somebodies else tourists to eat. MPI and the commercial fishers have not looked out of there window for a long time.

If they had they would realise that the best value for the export fishery from the inshore fishery is actually to support the tourist industry.

Why have the tossers in MPI or the commercial fishers not got the fact that the people who want to eat the best-flavoured fish from the inshore fishery are landing at Auckland airport every day, or shock horror, they already live here?

Had MPI been in charge of tourism it

would have failed just like everything else that MPI try to manage?

MPI has just one answer for any primary industry and that is export, export, export, yet in the case of the high quality inshore fishery, the best value from the inshore fish species is the vast amounts of money recreational fishers spend to catch each fish or an even more insane amount paid by a tourist per fish.

MPI and the commercial fishers are outnumbered by the recreational fishers, customary harvesters, retailers, consumers and, tourists who say keep your filthy thieving hands off our inshore fishery.

Has MPI and the commercial fishers not realised that about 3 million people from our country are angry about the over exportation of our inshore, Cray, Snapper, Paua, Hapuka, Blue Cod, Flounder, Blue Nose and the other Kiwi favourites, Tarakihi, Gurnard, Red Snapper, John Dory, Kingfish, Kahawai.

The commercial fishers of the inshore fishery are moaning that they are being picked on, that’s good because they can only expect much worse as kiwis struggle to get same day fish supply and kiwi retailers are selling imported fresh water fish that taste like the batter it was cooked in.

A message for MPI and commercial fishers.

We don’t trust you, we don’t believe a word of your stupid feel good TV campaigns. When you publish

something it is most likely lie or a cover up. You have killed more than half our fishery bio-mass on purpose. You have become comfortable dumping thousands of tonnes of fish over the sustainable quota.

You dare to celebrate the extortion of the Snapper and Blue Cod sold in fish retailers throughout the country at $40 kg knowing full well that our old people and children would not be able to afford these prices.

You expect the recreational fishers to rebuild the fishery that you have extorted and wasted, by putting recreational day catch limits down.

The state or the inshore fishery tells us you are not supporters of this country but destroyers of our country for the greed of your own selfish disgusting selves.

Will we give you a break or feel sorry for you when you lose your jobs because you over fish our ocean, no way.

What fisherman is going to tell their child or grandchild that they killed the last Maui Dolphin.

Just another example of lies and cover ups from scum fishermen and MPI who denied it. The fight to expose all the scum still in MPI and the commercial fishers that still fish with 50 year old diamond mesh is only just starting.

So if you are in MPI or a Commercial fisher and you can’t handle the dishonesty leave the industry, because you are outnumbered and you have less friends than you think.

Protecting seabirds and marine mammals - yeah right New Zealand is seabird central with more species of seabirds – notably albatross, petrel, penguin and shag species – that breed in New Zealand than anywhere else in the world.

That is why the fishing industry must minimise its impact on these creatures we all value.

The Commercial Fishing Industry says that every vessel will now have a specific risk mitigation plan for seabirds and all protected species that will be rolled out across the inshore fleet of about 400 vessels over the next two years.

In a practical sense few vessels currently practised any form of mitigation measures while the office wallahs spread fantastic stories of how the industry is behaving themselves through their expensive PR campaigns.

Some vessels fishing deepwater species and those in the surface longline

fishery have already had plans in place for years and the addition of the inshore finfish fleet just mean they are behind the eight ball and dragging the chain.

Ten golden rules for seabirds and marine mammals have been proposed; They include holding all fish waste when towing, or discharging away from the path of warps (trawl wires); always employ bird scaring devices; shoot and haul gear as quickly as possible to minimise time on the surface; return live seabirds and mammals to the sea quickly and treat with care; record and report all capture events, dead and alive.

These proposed ‘best practices’ have been adopted for many years but basically the fishers themselves fail to adopt them.

They treat all foreign species caught in their nets as a damned

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hindrance and will cut them up so they sink when thrown back, and most are rarely recorded.

Do the boffins actually believe that the fishers will adopt this practice when they are pulling in a net in rough weather on the high seas? They have already have a most difficult task and the likelihood of them playing the ‘good guys’ to save some poxy seal which has been dragged through the water for two hours is ‘not going to happen’ says some commercial fishers.

It isn’t practical, it put our lives at risk and simply won’t work they say.

Its all very well for some boffin who wears a tie and has never got blood on his hands to make these policies, and they will work really well on a hot summer’s day when the sea is quiet with no wind.

The commercial fishers themselves state that the only way to stop killing seabirds and mammals is to stop fishing those areas.

“It doesn’t matter what brainless plan you adopt – we cannot avoid catching them as the seals and dolphins swoop on the nets when they are being towed to get an easy meal from the fish munched up in the nets. They basically catch themselves and there is little to nothing we can do about it, save fishing elsewhere.

If Nash the new minister actually knew what was going on he would invoke his emergency powers and close the inshore fishery.

Precautions to protect Maui and Hector’s dolphins are another joke they said.

While set netting has been banned from all known habitat of Maui dolphins and Hector’s dolphin habitat the ban has not been reflected by the trawlers.

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A disconcerting fishing experience

By Rex N. Gibson

In late February I decided to terrorise the fish in the Mackenzie Country; well that’s how I always feel at the start of a fishing trip when confidence is boosted by anticipation/ adrenalin (or is it testosterone?).

Staying at Omarama gave me the opportunity to easily access both arms of Lake Benmore as well as Lakes Ohau, Aviemore and Waitaki.

The Ahuriri and Tekapo rivers were high and silt laden. This affected the river outlet areas, but the lakes all act as giant sedimentation ponds. There is always plenty of clearer water.

These lakes all hold good numbers of fish; rainbows, browns, landlocked salmon; and in Benmore, especially, there are the sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka). The name

sockeye comes from an Anglicization of its Native American name.

The sockeyes spawn earliest. There are some fantastic You Tube clips showing them aggregating prior to, and during, spawning in the Twizel River about this time in 2017. The main road bridge (State Highway 8) became a real vantage point for tourists. The downside of sockeyes as a sports fish is that they are very hard to catch. Their diet is primarily zooplankton; very hard to replicate with a fishing lure! The commercial catch in the northern hemisphere is mostly netted although one farm operates in British Columbia on the “flow through” model”. Presumably natural plankton from the river pass through the cages and the faeces flush out the other end. I note that industrial and farming “run off” from upstream is of concern; sound familiar?

There is a part of the Haldon arm delta (Lake Benmore), between the outlet of the Ohau canals and the Tekapo River mouth, which has been my “go to” spot for 20+ years. As I worked my way around I started to notice dead fish. After the first one I assumed it was one of the “catch and release” victims which had been “overplayed”, one of favourite “hates”.. Then I spotted another a little further along, and so on. By session end the count was at least nine. I was wading through a Salmonid morgue! For a fly fisherman/conservationist it was like watching a horror movie The gentle easterly breeze wafted a handsome six pound salmon, probably not a sockeye, right up to my wading position. There were “tell-tale” spots of fungal growth on its body reminiscent of the salmon carcasses that I have often encountered in the past on the Upper Hurunui and the Hakataramea

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Rivers from “spent” (post-spawning) salmon. As most fishers know the salmon only spawn once and then hover around the pool “waiting for god”. A somewhat morbid characteristic called “semelparous” behaviour. The difference is that the searun salmon in the upper Hurunui are a minimum of ten pounds in weight. The carcasses on the edge of Lake Benmore were mainly about 1.5 – 2.5 lbs (similar to many trout).

As a person who is primarily a trout fisherman these encounters with dead Salmonoids are somewhat disconcerting. It seems such a waste. Even as biologist I know the reason why the sportsman in my feels despair. I first experienced carcass overload well over a decade ago whilst fishing the Tekapo River.

On first glace they looked like their close relatives, the rainbow trout. The males turn red on the back when in spawning mode but the females still resemble trout. Walking amongst dead vertebrates is not a common experience for hunters and fishermen except where man has intervened.

I am a loss to think of many other mainland New Zealand vertebrates that die after reproducing for the first time. It is a characteristic however of many anadromous fish (including our various whitebait species, and salmon). Our smelt are even more versatile; some being diadromous (flitting between fresh and salt water), others are solely estuarine, and a few are even solely freshwater. The carcasses of whitebait in our river beds are generally inconspicuous, and the eel species in New Zealand do the opposite trick. They spawn in the ocean, where they die, and live their long lives in our freshwaters.

A point also lost on some people is that under the Conservation Act it is an offence to disturb spawning fish (including sockeyes); including walking up stream beds where they are spawning (and thus damaging their reds). There were two visiting fishermen casting away all day on a long pool in the lower Twizel River when I was there. I am sure

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that they did not realise that the fish were sockeyes and that these fish were more focussed on reproduction than noticing their flies.

Sockeyes were established in the Waitaki River catchment from a single release in 1901 from British Columbia. Hydro development from 1930 killed their sea run options, although there is some thought that they had already given up their seaward migration tendencies before the first dam was built at Kurow. Landlocked populations also occur across the North American continent.

The various land-locked sockeye populations of the Mackenzie catchment rarely grow bigger than 1 kg before spawning. They seem, however, to have found ways to spread their home range in recent years. In the 1980s they were thought to have become extinct but are a regular part of the catchment’s fauna. One report quotes a thousand sockeyes seen in a tributary of Lake Pukaki; traditionally the most barren of the lakes when it comes to Salmonoids.

Just for the record; I caught good fish (rainbows and browns) in all four lakes and enjoyed the great company of my three travelling colleagues. I was fishing solely with dragon fly and damsel fly imitations. The fishing conditions were great and the weather forecasts were wrong every single day!

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Adopt your local stream WSP OPUS Marketing and Sponsorship Lead, Brent Condon, used his platform at the #Stormwater2018 Conference to introduce a worldfirst solution for stream rehabilitation. “As a community, we must address the present-day damage and degradation that has been endured by global urbanisation. As experts, we have a responsibility to initiate such conversations. There are about 10,000km of permanently flowing streams in the Auckland region.

However, forest clearance and land development have severely affected both streams and habitat quality.

The question is, how do we develop such crucial, national dialogue?”

Brent stressed the importance of expert and community collaboration.

Speaking exclusively at the #InnovationShowcase, he introduced an initiative that tackles social responsibility at a grass root level. ‘Adopt your local stream’ involves field experts educating and supporting local communities; providing the correct processes needed to ensure for successful stream rehabilitation.

‘Adopt your local stream’. “This is not

for career or any corporation, said Brent, “I’m doing this to leave kiwi kids a health living heritage but as with all things investment is needed.” https://www.facebook.com/wspopus/videos/2016146835124556/ UzpfSTEzOTg0ODU5NDQ6MTAyMTI3OTk1NDMxMjg5MjE/ https://vimeo.com/272290105 https://vimeo.com/272294517 Sponsored through his work-place - WSP Opus (New Zealand’s oldest Infrastructure consultants), Brent was awarded merit for this innovation as a finalist at this year’s NZ Storm-water Innovation Showcase.

‘Adopt your local streams’ was put together by Brent, with help from his brother (an ecologist for Treescapes) after spending many years - with both of them bumdeep in streams and rivers in Ireland (where Brent was a part-time fly fishing guide and river fished competitively for my county), NZ and the UK - either fly fishing or participating in river/stream restoration projects.

Simply Brent has seen stream restoration projects in all three countries done for the right rea-

sons and the wrong reasons.

“I’ve seen them done well and badly but what most have in common is they are efforts done in isolation of each other, at grass-roots level with no shared learnings at a national level.”

So hopefully ‘Adopt your local Stream’ brings streams, Iwi and communities together to restore our public and urban waterways to ecological health and inherently starts a long-term investment with the power-house financial corporate-backing of WSP Opus - in establishing community stream-guardians with the guidance and investment of our very talented WSP Opus ecologists and water experts and hopefully other associated groups like Wai Care.

The key to success is bringing communities, Iwi and corporateinterests together, in an authentic, practical, heart-felt dialog/ process and the out-come is healthy stream environments for generations of young kiwi kids.

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Didymo Dave PLEASE GET THE FACTS

With the recent announcement that Lindavia lntermedia ‘Lake Snow algae’ has been found in the lakes in the central North Island the gossipers theory and ‘we know it all people’ have been in full swing and I’ve been amazed at some of the things I’ve heard!

So let’s look at the facts. Lindavia lntermedia is an algae that under certain conditions which are unknown can produce a mucous that is called Lake Snow.

In the last few years it has been identified as what I’ll call an incursion algae, so it’s not native to New Zealand and although it’s in several South Island Lakes, it’s mainly in Lake Wanaka where it’s been producing the mucous. Which has led to residential homeowners fitting filters between the toby and their homes, fishermen getting the stuff all over their trolling lines etc.

As to the North Island, Lindavia lntermedia was detected in

By David J. Pike Lake Waikaremoana in 2008 but there has been no sign of Lake Scientist David Pike prepared a pa- into a receiving river or stream test fish dies in 43.5 hours. The impli- Snow which confused the sciper which deals with the responses Hatchery reared yearling brown cations of the discharge of chlorin- entists and the rest of us. of the Brown Trout (Salmo Trutta trout were killed experimentally by ated waste water and sewerage into Recently a water scientist from Linn.), to free chlorine residuals in exposure for 1 hour to free chlorine freshwater fisheries is discussed. freshwater, and the potential tox- residuals, at levels as low as 0.04 The full scientific reicity that sometimes results when mg/l, and to continuously main- port can be found here at: waste water containing free chlorine tained free chlorine residuals at lev- http://www.fishingoutdoors. residuals, is discharged from sewer- els as low as 0.01 mg/l. At 0.01 mg/l org/fishing-information/freshage and water treatment plants, free chlorine in water, 50% of the water-fishing-articles/3151A report by Dr Joshu Mountjoy of NIWA on social media (read more View the newspaper online at www.fishingoutdoors.org and advertise online with us. here: https://goo.gl/UwVXNu ) Visit us on www.facebook/Fishing And Outdoors Newspaper who says tsunamis of up to 5m have taken place at Lake Tekapo, and, “people need to be aware that this is a potential hazard” has prompted a call to reopen Turangi’s once famous museum.

One Taupo lady says there is a really interesting angler’s eyewitness account of a tsunami at Whakaipo Bay Lake Taupo.

“It’s kept at Taupo Museum”, she recalls.

“In 1895 we had an earthquake which sparked a 2 foot wave, and in the 1922 earthquake a 12 foot wave was recorded.

She said that a newspaper report de-

Toxicity of Chlorine to Brown Trout

Otago wanted to find out where Lindavia lntermedia was in New Zealand and during his investigations he got hold of some 2005 water samples from the Moawhango River, which drains Lake Moawhango on army land north of Waiouru.

The samples had originally been tested for didymo and were negative but when he tested them for Lindavia /ntermedia they came back positive.

At that stage the writing was on the wall as Lake Moawhango water also feeds into the Tongariro power scheme and so some sampling was done and sure enough Lake’s Moawhango, Rotoaira and Taupo all came back positive for Lindavia lntermedia.

So it is now believed that while some of us have been running around trying to stop the stuff getting into these lakes Lindavia lntermedia has probably been in them since at least 2005 but like Lake Waikaremoana there has been no sign of the mucous it producers which is Lake Snow.

So where to from here? Well,

Lake Otamangakau was tested for Lindavia lntermedia recently and it came back negative so at this stage it appears to be only downstream waterways from Lake Moawhango that are testing positive so that shuts down the wildfowl theory once again.

Hopefully tests will be done on Lake Kuratau and the Rotorua Lakes to see what their status is.

As to why Lindavia lntermedia is not producing Lake Snow in the North Island I have no idea and neither do the scientists! But this is a great example of how we think we know what’s going on in our waterways when in fact we sometimes don’t.

The Minister of Biosecurity the Hon Damian O’Connor was absolutely spot on when he said in a speech at the National Fieldays that biosecurity was everyone’s job and for people shifting waterways that means complying with the CHECK CLEAN DRY programme.

Lake Taupo now has five freshwater pest plants, Lagarosiphon, Elodea, Egeria, Hornwort and now Lindavia lntermedia.

When do we say THAT’S ENOUGH?

Call to Reopen Turangi’s Museum tailed the account. Maybe that’s the story of how Mapara Rd split in half during the earthquake. Apparently a rider had to jump his horse over the bottomless chasm that was created.

There was a definite rising of the lake level (considerably) in 1922 due to the earthquake.

Some readers have come across the tidal wave report a few times in old books. Trevor Hosking mentions in his book ‘A Museum Underfoot’ a couple of guys finding their boat which was tied to a tree in Whangamata Bay, under water after the lake bed dropped 20 feet after a severe earthquake.

A Museum Underfoot has a fascinating story about MOW (Ministry of Works) establish-

ing the Turangi Museum. The exhibits remain still hidden. Why? And the adze found by Ray Parker now in Te Papa? It was thousands of years old from the Moa hunter period. It was so valuable they made a replica for display. So where is it now? Hosking’s book records over 250,000 tourists went through the Turangi museum in the first year. Isn’t it time it was reopened?

One Taupo lady remembers visiting the museum when she was a 15 very old Auckland school girl on a geography trip!

“I loved Turangi,” she says, “YES, open the Museum!! Trevor’s book deserves pride of place in it!”

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Kaimai’s to be 1080’d in September The DoC office in Rotorua has confirmed to some hunters that the Mamaku ranges on the southern end of the Kaimai ranges are to be poisoned with 1080 in September this year.

Managers and Trustees of some land are being paid huge amounts to allow the poison to be laid, against the wished of the whanau who in most cases know nothing about the drops until when the contractors arrive. Then it’s too late.

Both the Waikato Regional Council and Bay of Plenty Regional Council have emphatically denied that the Kaimai’s are to be poisoned.

The WRC has however requested in their Draft Long Term Plan seeking additional funding to develop a Containment Plan for Wallabies due to the fact that they are supposedly ‘moving outwards’ from their feral range in the general Rotorua Lakes area.

It is understood that poisoning is being discussed at committee level and that when the WRC decide to go ahead there will be very little notification as government has passed legislation that permits the dropping of 1080 without the requirement for resource consent.

In closed hearings council staff said they reserve the right to use

everything in the toolbox which includes 1080 and that they are aiming to eradicate wallabies.

We spoke with several hunters who are absolutely livid about the proposed drop.

In the NZ legislation on Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 under the section on the Treaty of Waitangi, it states ‘All persons exercising powers and functions under this Act, shall take into account the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.’

So there it is!

The crown have breached the Treaty.

Those operating under the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act are bound by the Treaty of Waitangi as stated in the legislation and the Treaty guarantees the right to harvest non contaminated Kai. Article 2 of the true Maori language Treaty which approx 500 chiefs signed refers to ALL the people of NZ (not just Maoris) Ko te tuarua Ko te Kuini o Ingarani ka wakarite ka wakaae ki nga Rangitira ki nga hapu – ki nga tangata katoa o Nu Tirani te tino rangatiratanga o o ratou wenua o ratou kainga me o ratou taonga katoa. Otiia ko nga Rangatira o te wakaminenga me nga Rangatira katoa atu ka tuku ki te Kuini te hokonga o era wahi wenua

e pai ai te tangata nona te Wenua – ki te ritenga o te utu e wakaritea ai e ratou ko te kai hoko e meatia nei e te Kuini hei kai hoko mona.

Article second The Queen of England confirms and guarantees to the chiefs and the tribes and to ALL THE PEOPLE OF NEW ZEALAND, the POSSESSION of their lands, dwellings and all their property. But the chiefs of the Confederation of United Tribes and the other chief’s grant to the Queen, the exclusive rights of purchasing such lands as the proprietors thereof may be disposed to sell at such prices as may be agreed upon between them and the person appointed by the Queen to purchase from them.

It’s about time hunters started speaking up as there is very little heard from that apathetic group via the NZDA. If a person sits around doing nothing he will never know when he’s finished.

Hunters believe the true reason would be to deplete the Park of deer and wild pigs.

There is no mention of excess wallabies on DoC’s hunting website? Because they are such low numbers there are not classed as a hunting game animal.

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Politics

“Drop In� Sessions - Deceitful “Divide and Conquer�?

by Rupert Pye

Government departments and other government organisations are required to consult. The Ministry of Fisheries consult by what they term “drop in� sessions. This involves going to a hall where several departmental officers who in reality are public servants, are spaced around the large “room� divided up rather than be a group of officials on a stage. The public come in as individuals and because of the deliberate format never collectively gather as in a normal meeting. The public are therefore divided up into clusters. Terence Tarakihi for example meets one officer over in the far corner while in the opposite corner Max Moki talks to another officer.  Max will never know what Terence is saying and vice-versa. Nor will Harry Hapuku and Ken Kahawai talking to two other officers at the same drop-in session know.

For that matter Harry and Ken won’t know what each other said. It is a subtle, disguised and cunning implementation of “divide and conquer�, the supreme tactic of bureaucrats.

Having attended some fisheries drop-in sessions, I have noticed the ministry officers engage in conversation but are not taking notes of comments from the public. In other words the consultation is a facade, a token gesture, not genuine, not sincere. Instead it is trickery and deception. “Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.� so said Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a 19th cen-

tury German writer and statesman. “Divide and conquer� is a centuries old tactic of politicians and bureaucrats world-wide. I observe with sadness it has become widespread in New Zealand. This is the age of the arch bureaucrats.

The Ministry of Fisheries (formerly Ministry of Primary Industries) has employed “drop in sessions� for some years now. As von Goethe observed divide and conquer aims to prevent the people uniting. To another quote from  J. K. Rowling, in “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire�

- “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.�

Recent reports from Wanaka of a recent “drop in session� meeting held

by OSPRI and the Department of Conservation to “consult� with the public over a 1080 aerial drop in Alice Burn, indicate the bureaucrats were stymied by the public wanting a proper meeting in other words an abandonment of the “drop in� format. OSPRI officers walked out, in other words turned tail and ran. Now to me this behaviour by public servants is quite repugnant. The public are entitled to hear what others think and to hear collectively the claims of public servants and replies to questions from other people.

I came across a definition of consultation arising out of a High Court case in the decision of Air New Zealand Limited v Wellington International Airport Ltd. This decision summarised the relevant considerations for consultation to be as follows:1. The essence of consultation is the communication of a genuine invi-

tation to give advice and a genuine consideration of that advice.

2. The effort made by those consulting should be genuine, not a formality; it should be a reality, not a charade.

3. Sufficient time should be allowed to enable the tendering of helpful advice and for that advice to be considered. The time need not be ample, but must be at least enough to enable the relevant purpose to be fulfilled.

4. It is implicit that the party consulted will be (or will be made) adequately informed to enable it to make an intelligent and useful response. The party obliged to consult, while quite entitled to have a working plan in mind, should listen, keep an open mind, and be willing to change and if necessary start the decision-making process afresh.

5. The parties may have quite different expectations about the extent of consultation.

Take special note of the phrase about consultation being “genuine, not a formality, it should be a reality, not a charade.�

Of course the Minister may be completely oblivious to the deception of the public. The classic “Yes Minister� TV programme is being played out again in 2018.

Minister Nash will ask his ministry officer, did you consult. “Yes Minister, we held meetings throughout the country.� That will satisfy the Minister. But he has been duped as well unless he is in on the charade.

The latest most classic display of mismanagement by MPI is the Chatham Island paua industry.

For years the island industry has been demanding the MPI butt out of paua management but the MPI insisted they knew what they were doing when in fact their bungling scientists had their heads up their proverbial backsides. Now submissions are being called for to help the collapsed industry recover.

The laughable side of this is how the NZ Seafood Industry is patting themselves on the back in their attached Press Release below for a successful carefully managed fishery when from the ‘get go’ it has been a complete botch-up from this bunch of bureaucratic tossers.

Promising plans for pÄ ua The pÄ ua industry has been carefully managing commercial harvesting of pÄ ua fisheries for many years now. Practices such as catch spreading, fine-scale management and the use of ACE shelving to adjust commercial harvest levels are widespread. But these management practices took a big step forward this week with the formal notification of a draft fisheries plan for the Chatham Islands (PAU4) fishery.

The fisheries plan provides a frame-

work for actions that the industry will take to manage commercial harvesting of the PAU4 fishery.

Management settings will be adjusted on an annual basis, through a process that involves community input and integrates with the Minister’s responsibilities for ensuring sustainability under the Fisheries Act. The plan, which has been prepared by industry organisation PauaMAC4 on behalf of PAU4 quota owners and divers, is a strong expression of industry investment in responsible, sustainable management of pÄ ua stocks.  Six weeks ago industry representatives presented the plan to Minister of Fisheries Stuart Nash, with supporting letters from the Iwi and Imi of the Chatham Islands (Ngati Mutunga and Moriori), the Chatham Islands harvesters forum, and the Chatham Islands Fisheries Forum on behalf of the local community. The Minister’s response to date has been encouraging – after all, what’s not to like about industry accepting responsibility for its own performance? Te Ohu Kaimoana has also backed the plan.

The high level of endorsement bodes well for the consultation process which is now underway.

It’s not only the Chatham Islanders

who are looking forward to the approval and implementation of the fisheries plan. For many years the seafood industry has seen the fisheries plan provisions in section 11A of the Fisheries Act as an excellent, but sadly underutilized, opportunity for the industry to exercise its harvesting rights in a responsible, coordinated manner. Close attention will be paid to the PAU4 fisheries plan in the expectation that it will set a positive precedent for inclusive, more sophisticated management of New Zealand’s fisheries.

This is the industries press release to explain the collapsed paua industry on the Chathams and fishers nation-wide wonder why the MPI were ever given the role of fisheries management? What the Chathams are asking for is smaller managed zones to reduce the pillage in some of the easier accessible areas.

We the taxpayers will have to pay for all these botch up’s while the culprits get off scot free and we end up with no oysters, less salmon, retarded kiwi fruit, no fish, our sacred trees are dying, no milk, our water is foul that is what we are not giving away and no wild animals in the bush.

Really!!

MPI Paua debacle

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Should all offenders do jail time?

A recreational fisher was caught with a large amount of Paua he was selling in Auckland and Northland. The court put a dollar value of the unreported black-market Paua at $12k.

It was not the first offence of this kind by the offender. The offender was found guilty and sentenced to one year in prison.

MPI team manager northern investigations Simon Anderson, says the sentence sends a clear message that taking more than the legal limit of pÄ ua as well as dealing with it on the black market is a serious offence.

Okay so let’s look at this case as setting precedence in NZ law for offenders against the fishery.

The Commercial Industry repeatedly talk about the sustainability of the fishery and their approach to this.

Sustainability means that offenders should be punished severely

when caught breaching the Fisheries Act with a view to protecting the interests of all parties.

If an offender has multiple offences against the fishery with a high dollar value and sells that seafood, then that person should receive a jail term.

This is great because the offenders, who have 122 guilty charges against the Hawkes Bay regions fishery, should all go to jail. If the court wants to be fair and send the commercial fishery the same message as they sent to the recreational poachers and fishers.

This could get a little awkward for some of the Directors and CEOs of fishing companies as more official information requests bring to light serious amounts of offending and mis-reporting in the industry.

If it were found that 2000 ton of Hoki was mis-reported by Tal-

ley’s in 2011, who would go to jail, because the Hoki, in this case, is worth much more than $12k.

It would seem that if you purchase a $30m vessel because of the cost of that vessel and the few people who work on it, the operators are too big to prosecute.

If the courts do not pass jail time on this offending then it leaves it open to criticism for one-sided punishment and it would suggest that the court is much more interested in protecting the commercial export industry by only punishing recreational fishers?

The courts have to protect our inshore fishery no matter who does the offending and send a clear message to every offender in order to protect the fishery.

Hawke’s Bay fishing company- convicted The underreporting of caught fish was at the centre of a huge court case last year and convictions have finally been entered against Hawke’s Bay Seafoods and its directors after years of investigation and court hearings.

The companies charged were Hawke’s Bay Seafoods, Ocean Enterprises and Esplanade No 3. The directors and managers were Antonino “Nino� Giovanni D’Esposito, Giancarlo “Joe� Harold D’Esposito and manager Marcus Giuseppe

D’Esposito and a skipper John Butler.

The judge set a sentencing hearing date in August.

In a summary of facts now before the court the Ministry said the misreporting became evident when a comparison of the amounts of fish reported as caught and landed were compared with the recorded amounts exported.

Four of the ships used by the company are to be forfeited, the Mutiara II, The Pacific Explorer, the Trial B and the Lady Ruth.

MPI - Conflict of Interest There has always been a clear conflict of interest between MPI and customary fishers.

MPI is export focused and sees the fishery value in monetary export dollars. MPI was driven forward by a financial policy mandated to it to double the value of the exports by 2025. This policy was applied to the wild fish harvesters of NZ who had little choice but to discard all caught fish of a lesser value to achieve this goal.

MPI turned a blind eye to the overfishing and under reporting from commercial fishers and the result was a deleted inshore fishery.

Worse still was the fact that MPI was in full legal defence of these unsustainable fishing practices.

It could be that MPI was in breach of its own requirement to provide for customary fishers under the Treaty of Waitangi when they chose to appeal a court decision in Tauranga that would have stopped the commercial depletion around the Island.

Let us look at the case of Motiti Island in the Bay of Plenty.

If our New Zealand politicians only ever see our inshore fishery in economic terms, then why has the inshore fishery not been reserved in support of our biggest economic success, tourism?

Tourism has grown so much and so fast that there has been a shortage of facilities to service the industry needs. Our restaurants have chef’s desperate to show off our local fresh in-season products.

There are farmers and growers the full

length of the country that take pride in producing the very product that has the best flavour and texture in the world. The memories this creates for our Tourist is then shared through social media all over the world too many different cultures and in many different languages, for free.

The seafood industry in their desire to send our main species overseas are trying to get consumers to swallow their PR dribble on eating less value species. This shows how desperate they are to hand on to what they are stealing from us.

Our seafood industry has for the best part opted out of the Tourist trade by choosing to restrict supply and or charge ridiculous wholesale prices for fish caught outside the seaside restaurant window.

Would you take your tourist

bus to Ohakune so they could eat carrots, not likely? But they do take tourist buses to Kaikoura to eat crayfish or to Bluff to consume their famous oysters.

Restauranteurs are now trying to create memories with fish like Red Cod/Ling or the flavourless Hoki.

Chefs now spend hours creating fancy sources with hot spices and heavy flavours like garlic and time to prevent the fish dish from being bland.

The best way to have our seaside cafe’s serve three-star food is to the supply that cafe with fresh same day fish, like Snapper or Blue Cod and let the Chef pan fry it in a little butter and olive oil, then season it with salt and pepper and put it on a fancy plate with some salad and chips.

So next time you are in the supermarket of in a restaurant ask for same day in shore line-caught fish, if they don’t have it walk away.

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King Salmon Eyes Cook Strait King Salmon have huge ambition, but little credibility when it comes to the environmental effects resulting from their nine farms in the Sounds - they have attempted to persuade MPI to let them into other areas in the outer Sounds, but have only been partially successful in accessing the areas they require.

Now there is another apparent solution - the storm ridden Cook Strait where they believe that newly developed Norwegian technology will help them to move right into the open ocean. Bollocks! - there is no evidence that the Norwegians have developed ‘undersea’ technology that would cope with the forces generated in Cook Strait - certainly not in the Report below in any cages.

But true to form, King Salmon and Aquaculture NZ have taken a delegation of people that they believe will be able to influence Government and public opinion here, to a conference in Stavenger, Norway to hear the ‘good news,’ and report it back here to a hopefully gullible audience.

Note that NZH’s Patrick Smellie follows MSM practice of admitting that he travelled to Norway “as a guest of Aquaculture NZ.” He reports that the head of the Environment Defence Society environmental policy group, Raewyn Peart who also traveled to Norway for the presentation “gave cautious early endorsement”. Many

of us who have relied on the unbiased participation of the EDS in the past would be disappointed if it turned out that her expenses had also been met by Aquaculture NZ. She told Patrick “If we’re going to expand salmon farming, or fin-fish farming of that kind, I think the only option is to go offshore.”

Patrick Smellies report certainly does not answer obvious questions that arise from the elements of the proposal contained in the report. I submit as evidence of the slant being provided by King Salmon Managing Director, Grant Rosewarne the following quote: “What would be the capacity there?

At least 100,000 tonnes,” he said of Cook Strait’s potential to host NZKS’s future operations, which currently produce around 8,000 tonnes annually of the fish, which it sells locally and for export using nine sites in the Marlborough Sounds, covering a total of 17 ‘surface hectares’ for total revenues in the last financial year of $136 million” And: “I think we’re on the cusp, for the first time, of having the prospect of realising a massively valuable industry,” said Rosewarne, who believes farming of the high-value, Pacific King salmon variety could become as valuable as the dairy industry in New Zealand over the next 30 years, but at a fraction of the environmental cost

and area required by dairying.”

Rosewarne goes on to say: “We’d probably start by putting a pen out there (in Cook Strait) and see what happens, not even put any fish in it, see if we can make it go up and down, see how we go with storms.”

There is an element of fantasy involved with this proposal - salmon are not mussels that cling to ropes, or the bottom to resist the currents that feed them. The idea of salmon being able to resist the kind of currents experienced in Cook Strait is beyond belief, and one has to wonder what the ulterior motive may be in pushing this proposal - even to the extent of flying possible ‘influencers’ to Stavanger to absorb, and report on this remarkable new advance in aquaculture technology.

I don’t believe it for one moment, any more than I give any credence to the Hauraki Gulf fin-fish proposal.

Watch as Aquaculture NZ start working on that purveyor of largesse to the provinces - Shane Jones for huge Government support from his billion dollar fund to help pay for the ‘research.’

You need to hear him on Morning Report this AM talking about salmon farming behind Trustpower’s Arnold dam to understand the gullibility and superficiality of this man - particularly when it comes to West Coast projects.

West Coast hydro dam to start Salmon farming A proposal to start Salmon farming on the Arnold River hydro dam on Lake Brunner on the South Island’s West Coast had had the government sit up and take notice.

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company wants to have a commercial operation up and running within the next 18 months.

Shane Jones says it’s one of the more promising proposals to come from the coast as the gov-

ernment welcomes the proposal.

The Council is working with Trustpower to allow access to the dam which has already had trials over the last eighteen months.

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King Salmon imports foreign salmon New Zealand King Salmon has made a corporate decision to import fish from foreign waters to boost their stock.

CEO Grant Rosewarne says the move could be permanent as salmon supplies floundered.

He said they experienced shortfalls of between 20 and 30 tonnes a week, which he blamed on an increase in demand, a shortage of space for farming and “warmer than usual” water temperatures.

More salmon will be imported from overseas to help meet demand.

They began to import Atlantic salmon from Norway and Canada in April

this year.

The imported salmon would be sold under the Southern Ocean brand which would be modified to reflect the change of origin.

The company reported first half-year profits of $15.7 million, up 81 per cent compared to the same time last year when profits were $8.7m.

But what was described as the “most difficult” farming year on record meant those earnings could be dented in the second half of the financial year.

Warmer water in the Sounds led to a higher mortality rate in stock.

The Marlborough-based Salmon farm

expects to hear back from Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash in August about plans to tow fish farms into deeper water in Tory Channel and Waitata Bay in the Marlborough Sounds.

CEO Grant Rosewarne said he had met with Nash and understood a decision could be made at his discretion or through legislation.

The aim of shifting the farms was to increase production in the swifter flowing waters to reduce seabed pollution and fish health problems, but opposed by some groups on navigation and environmental grounds.

Marlborough Salmon Farm in Hot Water

by Dick Featherstone

NZ King Salmon who have salmon farms in the Marlborough Sounds have come in for a pasting following their publicly stated intention to get $116,000 from government to clean up fish faeces and uneaten food from the sea bed under its farms.

Peter Watson, president of the Marlborough Recreational Fishers Association (MRFA) said King Salmon’s announcement was “sad reading” and showed the company’s “single minded pursuit of profit” at the expense of the environment.

Tony Orman local conservationist and angler said the company’s gall was staggering while Andi Cockroft of the Council of Outdoor Recreation Associations of NZ (CORANZ) said the company was showing “scant respect” for the public interest.

Inflaming the anger is that NZ King

Salmon with a majority shareholding by the Malaysian Tiong Dynasty, posted a profit of $15.7 million for the half year to December 2017, up 81 percent compared to the same period the previous year and that the company occupies public sea bed space for which it pays no rates. On top of that the company announced that it had to import salmon from overseas to make up for fish deaths due to water temperatures. Disease was not mentioned by the company but reports say disease was rife in the crowded pens.

Tonnes of dead salmon have been dumped at the local waste disposal.

“The whole situation is ridiculous,” said Andi Cockroft of CORANZ. “The Marlborough Sounds future is not in factory fish farming and should not be an industrial zone.”

He said the Sounds future was in

tourism and outdoor recreation.

He singled out forestry with siltation following logging and log debris as seriously detrimental too.

Andi Cockroft called on the Marlborough District Council to stop indulging in “chatter and committees” and urgently address the problems around salmon farms and forestry.

Peter Watson of MRFA criticised King Salmon’s importation of salmon which in view of NZ’s current bio-security problems, ran the risk of importing fish diseases of not only salmon but trout too. He said MRFA “several years ago” told an environmental hearing for an increase in the number of the company’s salmon farms that water temperatures were too warm. The advice was ignored and King Salmon were given the green light for four more farms.

Salmon: massive profits at the expense of the environment The King Salmon story is basically a tale of massive profits at the expense of the environment, marine ecosystems, and NZ taxpayers.

The company continues to push international and domestic sales on the back of “clean green” branding even beyond its own ability to produce. Meanwhile, the real backstory that company management tries to obscure with its PR spin is one of seabed degradation, disease, dead fish, and industrial pollution.

King Salmon’s managing director paints each company failure and its disastrous environmental record as an exciting opportunity or positive development. What he confirms in the process is that caged fed fish farming is a filthy, unsustainable, and low-employment industry.

While NZ King Salmon makes an environmental mess of the Marlborough Sounds, environmentalists should be redoubling their efforts to prevent the introduction of caged kingfish farming in the Firth of Thames and elsewhere.

Councils and government are not liable for any form of prosecution. They can rule with an iron fish and do whatever they like.

If you read section 15 of the RMA it tells you all the things you can’t do to fresh or salt water in NZ, unless what you are doing is in a National or District plan, e.g.: the Raglan Council will have in its district plan that in an extreme weather event it may be necessary to release overflow from its surge treatment plant into the Raglan Harbour. This means the Council is exempt from prosecution; there is nothing a court can do.

This is exactly what the government has done with the Fisheries Act, Animal Welfare Act and Resource

Management Act. They have exempted themselves from any form of liability so they can do whatever they like without any fear of liability.

Councils are doing exactly the same.

Salmon also have a bacterial infection on their farms that they are vaccinating for that has killed a lot of fish. There are some serious concerns of it getting into the wild fish.

The MPI’s track record on bio-security means they can’t be trusted.

There is a major report on British Columbia and the infection in Atlantic farm salmon it is having disastrous effect on the wild run so why are Fish and Game not all over this, or are they complicit in the conspiracy.

This is just another ploy by King Salmon to get more water space. Kiwis will only lose jobs if King Salmon imports instead of growing. They are playing a nasty PR game because they really are a filthy contaminated industry.

King Salmon lost a court case when they tried to get more water space.

Know Shane Jones and Mike Neilson is trying to get Aquaculture put under a National Plan, where they are exempted from prosecution..

Those projects under a National Plan are exempt from section 15 of the RMA. That means the Aquaculture industry has opted out of any responsibility to environmental harm.

So the question to be asked is how something can be done by the national plan or district plan that’s illegal for us to do in the public eye? Who do these bureaucrats think they are?

How the courts exempt them? Or are the courts corrupt and able to manipulate the law to suit?

1080 has an exemption under a National Plan to kill all animals with a

DoC hypocrisy again on grasshopers An endangered grasshopper found only in the Mackenzie Country is under threat from dairying.

Changes to the natural habitat of the Brachaspis robustus grasshopper have caused the population to decrease according to DoC ecologist Warren Chin.

The grasshopper is not found anywhere else in the world.

The species is on the same endangered

vertebra, MP Nick Smith put 1080 under this plan. This means in its goal to kill rats and stoats, if it kills anything else with a vertebrae, like Kiwi and Tui it is exempt from prosecution under section 15 of the RMA. These politicians, and Councillors, are tricky fellas because only they have the ability to put something in a district or nation plan.

Omega Innovations is a subsidiary of NZKS that has to process and make money from their dead salmon, mortalities, which they had in ample supply this summer. The estimate is that 25% die in a hot summer year, 10% in a cool summer year.

So, this summer for certain 25% died, possibly more as it was the hottest sea water in the last five years.

The fish die mostly in the two Pelorus farms and the Ruakaka farm in the Queen Charlotte. The three farms in Tory Channel would have the 10% mortality as its water is not too hot for salmon. The percentage dead fish is much higher than 25% in the three affected farms. Ruakaka is a farm they want to relocate, but they cannot relocate the Pelorus farms.

The relocation plans of the “low flow (= old with polluted sea bottom) farms have to be reconsidered because: 1. the recommended two farms in the Pelorus Sound are further inside the Pelorus, so no better than their two high flow farms, Waitata and Kopaua, when it comes to mortalities.

2. the three year count of the endangered King Shags has shown that there are 25% fewer birds now than in 2015.

3. the whole of the Pelorus Sound is closed to the harvesting of shellfish (mussels), because of an algal bloom of the Catanella algae. Most unusual at this time of the year. level as birds like the kea and kaka.

It was a big battle to raise awareness because the grasshopper lacked the ‘cute and fluffy’ factor of birds.

Yet while Greenpeace and DoC are rabbiting on about dairying creating the extinction of this rare grasshopper they seem to have forgotten that more 1080 has been poured onto the MacKenzie Country where this thing lives than any other area for rabbits over the last sixty years.

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New Zealand’s hoki fishery under scrutiny New Zealand’s hoki fishery has come under renewed criticism this week after leaked reports revealed that some of the country’s biggest fishing companies had been systematically under-reporting their catch by hundreds of tonnes.

Hoki is one of New Zealand’s most valuable export fish. The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has certified hoki, ling and southern blue whiting fisheries as sustainable, and it is currently undertaking a regular review of the hoki certification.

It is considered that the MSC may be rubberstamping flawed information from the MPI and the fishing industry itself.

Fish dumping in the hoki fishery has long been investigated and documented in government reports and scientific journals, but the MSC appears to have ignored this evidence.

There is undeniable evidence about illegal catch, dumping and impacts on marine mammals and other protected species.

Research found clear evidence of illegal fish dumping and other forms of misreporting of catches in the hoki fishery off the South Island of New Zealand. In addition, several other compliance investigations and government reports have consistently reported serious concerns about illegal and unsustainable practices in the hoki fishery since the early 2000’s.

For example, Operation Bronto involved 43 port inspections, 20 vessel inspections at sea, and 11 fishing trips on which government observers collected data. Data were compared from vessels with and without observers on board.

During Operation Bronto in 2011, the MPI identified significant noncompliance relating to catch reporting, fishing practices and misreporting of bycatch, among other issues.

This included reporting incorrect weights, quantities and species.

Operation Bronto revealed that the hoki fleet was good at reporting the amount of fish brought back to shore for sale, but poor at reporting the actual catches at sea.

Some crews discard the least valuable part of their catch so as to maximise their profit, a practice known as “high grading”. The catch is sorted by length and weight, and the less profitable fish are dumped at sea. This results in serious damage to fish stocks, both of hoki and bycatch species, and corrupts the data that fisheries managers need to ensure the fishery is sustainable.

There are other serious issues with

the hoki fishery. It kills marine mammals, including New Zealand sea lions, fur seals, common dolphins and dusky dolphins. It is also a threat to Hector’s and Maui dolphins found only in New Zealand coastal waters. More than 500 fur seals have been caught in the fishery in the last five years, and the government estimates that more than 200 are caught each year.

Observer coverage is low in most New Zealand fisheries (about 8.4% in deep-sea fisheries and less than 1% inshore). This means that bycatch is underestimated. There is not enough data on marine mammal bycatch for hoki and other New Zealand fisheries, which makes it impossible to determine whether this impact is sustainable.

Seabirds are also killed or injured by trawl gear. Large seabirds such as albatross can get struck by the trawl warps, while smaller seabirds get caught in the net when it is on the surface during deployment and retrieval.

The Bronto report made 45 recommendations to solve these problems, including closing spawning areas to avoid impacts on juvenile hoki and closing some areas to trawling, which is a particularly unselective fishing method.

Recommendations to address the non-compliance included enforcing criminal sanctions, moving to 100% observer coverage, and adjusting the allowance for unreported mortality and illegal take. Five recommendations concerned the need to further investigate particular factory trawlers.

Operation Trois also found significant under-reporting due to a number of non-compliance issues across the entire southern blue whiting fleet. MPI’s 2013 report contains 25 recommendations, similar to those of Operation Bronto. It is disturbing that these purportedly secret reports were shared and discussed with industry representatives. An implication might be taken from this that industry consultations may have had an effect on implementation or not, of the 70 recommendations.

In short, Operations Bronto, Trois, and Maxi, among others, show that the effectiveness of New Zealand’s Quota Management System and MSC certification is profoundly compromised by the quality of the data used to set the Total Allowable Catches (TACs).

We consider that a thorough, independent peer review would have discovered these data on systemic

illegal activities in the hoki and southern blue whiting fisheries, and would have resulted in both losing their certification. Meanwhile, consumers have bought New Zealand hoki for almost two decades, assuming that the fishery is sustainable and properly managed, when it has not been.

Regardless of the outcome of the MSC process, hoki exports to the United States may well be banned.

The new US fish import rule requires that New Zealand fisheries prove within a few years that they have accurate estimates of marine mammal bycatch, and systems to determine whether these deaths are sustainable. This requires marine mammal population surveys and much better data on how many marine mammals are caught.

The MPI itself admits that fishers are entrenched in a cycle of nonreporting, as discarding is a systemic failure of the current system.

The challenge is to have robust data and processes for fish stock assessments. The government must critically evaluate the quality and quantity of scientific information used to determine the impact of fishing on the marine environment, on all stakeholders, and on reaching total allowable catch decisions.

Other challenges include the need to assess the ecological sustainability of fisheries in the face of climate change and other stressors.

The consensus among scientists is that we lack the fundamental data upon which the sustainable management of our fisheries must be based. Without adequate data, we will be constantly surprised by new challenges, whether overfishing or disease, or through climate change.

Most New Zealand stock assessments rely on catch data provided by the industry, rather than on independent surveys. This approach was one of the reasons for consistent overestimation of Canadian cod stocks until they collapsed in 1992.

It is argued that two things need to happen, at a minimum. There must be a comprehensive statutory inquiry into fisheries management including the QMS, and the government must invest in rigorous, independent stock assessments so that we are making decisions on the basis of the best possible data. Already innovative thinking has been undertaken on an alternative resource rental model of fisheries management. Importantly, a resource rental model can meet commercial and recreational, and, crucially, Māori interests.

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Snapper Bill

A good feed of filleted snapper

Another fishing trip was on our agenda so it was getting up at 5.00 am as our sailing time was 6.30 am.

Graham the editor of the Fishing and Outdoors newspaper was joining us on this trip to show us his skills and show us he did catching some big snapper and had his quota in very quick time.

His skills also came to the fore afterwards, showing us his cooking skills by providing a fish chowder that was so tasty everybody went back for more. Everybody had a great day and was very happy to

go home with their allowance.

Another big thanks to Tom, Lorraine and Jordon for giving me all the opportunity.

It’s now into winter fishing as the oceans chills a few degrees which mean the fish go deeper.

Many folk stop fishing after Easter and ply for the ‘deer roar’ and duckshooting, but those of us that are dedicated talk sweetly to ‘her indoors’ and get permission to have a play. I think that winter fishing is way better than the summer months.

Unfortunately many retail shops close or scale down to focus on other sports.

I also attended the Coromandel Seafood fest on the Saturday. What a crowd turnout record, they say plenty of food outlets oysters, mussels, scallops and live bands playing all kind of music from the 60’s and 70’s.

Hank from Salty Towers was there showing his excellent skills by filleting fish and shucking mussels attracting a large crowd on both occasions.

A good time had by all.

Well that may be just about over, I will try and get back to Coromandel later in the year.

Snappa Bill. This is how you should keep your catch – in salty flake ice

Storm brewing in the Mackenzie There’s a storm brewing in the Mackenzie Country in Canterbury On one side, we have Murray Valentine the owner of Simons Pass Station Ltd who has applied for new building consents to establish his mega-dairy conversion unit.

On the other side, Suzette van Aswegen, leader of the tiny Mackenzie District Council.

It would be tragic if the extraordinary landscapes of the Mackenzie Country were turned into one huge dairy farm.

The future of the Mackenzie rests The opportunity this creates which on her shoulders as she holds the lead to the potential degradation power to agree or deny his request. of the likes of the Tekapo River, She has to stand up for the rights Gray’s Stream and the Maryburn, of all New Zealanders in protect- Twizel and Ohau Rivers, Lake Poaing our natural environment let ka and other areas is horrendous. alone the attractiveness and tour- No one man or business venture ist value of the Mackenzie Country should ever be allowed to decimate and deny the building consents any area of such significant value to NZ. for this destructive mega-farm.

Newstalk Country Host and Fed Farmers in La-La Land on Possums

by John McNab

Newstalk’s New Zealand’s flagship rural radio show “ The Country” has received a withering blast from two prominent outdoor sportsmen over the programmes ‘demonising’ of possums. Lewis Hore of Oamaru said “The Country’ host Jamie Mackay had naively believed “spin” put out by the Department of Conservation and Tb-FreeNZ (OSPRI) maligning the possum for spreading TB, destroying forests and eating birds. On the radio show Federated Farmers NZ also joined in demonising the possum.

Newstalk claimed “Jamie (Mackay) always gets to the heart of a story.”

But Marlborough sportsman and conservationist Tony Orman said Jamie Mackay had “dismally failed to get to the heart of the story.”

“A good journalist would do some factual research. MacKay would then find science says possums don’t gobble forests, spread Tb or eat birds.”

Lewis Hore said it was obvious that the people on “The Country” show were very biased

towards possums being a pest.

“They’ve caught pest phobia. Obviously not much home work has been done by the programme. . Australia got rid of TB by culling the cattle herds that had TB not killing the animals that might have caught it.”

Tony Orman said a senior Landcare scientist Graham Nugent had debunked the 70 million possum figure and told a DoC ‘Possum Pest” workshop in 1994 that even 70 million possums would only eat 15 percent of the national forest’s daily foliage production.

“If Jamie had gone looking he would find on google that National’s agriculture minister Nathan Guy answered questions from NZ First MP Richard Prosser that of almost 10,000 possums autopsied not one had TB.” He might also find NZ had been TB-Free by international standards well under the yardstick - for the last decade and that two Landcare research studies showed the possum which incidentally is a herbivore,

was proven not to eat birds or eggs.

“It’s a fallacy, a product of DOC propaganda aimed at demonising the possum that the herbivore marsupial eats birds. Landcare science proved they don’t. Scientists Sweetapple and Nugent in 2007 analysed stomach contents of possums and found no meat or feathers. Sweetapple, Fraser and Knightsbridge analysed, from 3 south Westland sites, possum stomach contents and found no trace of birds or feathers,” he said.

As a former farmer Jamie MacKay and for that matter Federated Farmers should look at the accuracy of the skin test commonly used by TB-Free to test for TB. “It’s error rate is about 25-30 percent according to sources which means one in 10 cattle will be infected by wrongly being clear on the archaic test. Those animals become sleepers in the herd, remaining to infect other animals,” he said. “I’m surprised Fed Farmers are so naive.

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Letters to editor Eco-terrorists?

Dear Sir I have seen a Newshub report recently where “a group of activists have sent out a letter saying anyone involved in an upcoming 1080 drop is «committing an act of terrorism».

Police on the West Coast are investigating.

“The 1080 programme is lawful and the belief that anybody associated with this (1080 drops) is committing an act of terrorism is absolutely incorrect,” said Inspector Mel Aitken.

Hold on Inspector Aitken, if you knowingly kill birds that is an act of eco-terrorism is it not under the Wildlife Act? 1080 does just that.

So taxpayers funding DoC and OSPRI’s senseless, self-serving 1080 drops have a right to criticise.

Is not killing native birds eco-terrorism?

I would like the police to get their own backyard in order.

Their bias in the Whitianga assault charge over DoC’s secret 1080 storage (which you brilliantly covered Mr Editor) and the case in Otago of two off-duty cops poaching deer but being left off does not inspire confidence in the police. Police are public servants. Our taxes pat their salaries.

streams; causing severe damage to our environment; allowing commercial fishers to destroy the inshore fishery; create the biggest housing - poverty - homelessness crisis in the history of NZ, forcing thousands to sleep in cars - tents sheds – garages and caravans. Reduce funding to the Police so they struggle to operate efficiently. Underfund all other social services to breaking point, lie and deceive the people of NZ for 9 years.

The timing of Keys resignation was to give English a long enough stint in the top job to make it happen.

They can now show off their gongs and wave their blue ties at each other across the boardroom tables!

It’s not April Fool Day is it?

Joe Hunt Dargaville

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NZDA a disgrace

Jim Jones North Canterbury

“Justice First” Auckland

Politicians Stink

Gongs for the boys

Dear Sir Unbelievable! Makes a total mockery of those who have received knighthoods who actually deserved them.

Bryce Johnson got a Companion of the Order in Queens Birthday honours!

Matthew Hall one time Fish and Game NZ chairman got a MHZM. Both for ‘services to conservation and the environment.’ Really!

And Bill English a knighthood.

Did he do anything worthwhile for New Zealanders?

He sat in the leadership team of a Government that for nine long years, gave away access to our land and oceans to foreign oil companies, lets emissions rise, failed to make polluters pay, allowed rampant dairy expansion and the pollution that comes with it, scoffed at climate change, underfunded education and healthcare, let hospitals rot, left us with the meth testing scam.

Qualifications to receive a knighthood in NZ seem to be, almost completely destroying our rivers and

Has anyone heard anything about it?

Has anyone in NZDA executive witnessed the barbaric torture that deer go through with 1080 poisoned food at up to 30 hours each to die.

Many hunters are disgusted at the level of barbaric cruelty that the DoC animal torturers have displayed with the poisoning of over 300 deer with 1080 poison in Molesworth Station. MPI states deer take up to 30 hours to die from this poison. It’s not acceptable. The DoC people are terrorizing these creatures which do no more damage than the Native Moa did, meanwhile cattle are pouring liquid shit in the creeks and how many thousands of those are you farming on Molesworth?

Hinds hide their young fawns in long grass or foliage and only return to feed them milk for the first week or so until they gain strength to run with mum. Some poisoned hinds will go to their fawns and die with it many though won’t as they become confused and frightened as the poison takes effect. Either way the fawn dies a slow death by starvation.

Photo supplied as an example of what will have happened to deer and fawns on Molesworth Station.

Dear Sir It’s has been reported that NZDA Marlborough are “negotiating” with Ospri to have deer repellant added to baits at the Orillion factory instead of applied onto the outsideon the baits!

What a disgrace NZDA are! If NZDA are approving aerial drops if they contain deer repellent, then NZDA are aiding and abetting the aerial poisoning of New Zealand wildlife, and New Zealand people, it’s as simple as that.

How dare they support the poisoning of all of the forest’s wildlife, waterways, and people, but not the deer! They are also naive to believe deer repellent makes any difference. They appear to be ignorant - we’ve-already shown clearly that repellent-coated bait still kills high numbers of deer. https://youtu.be/KwiDbs46K7Q What ever happened to the NZDA “investigation” into the typical deer poisoning at the Molesworth drop?

Dear Sir Where on earth is our country headed with all this M Bovis disease?

I blame the MPI and National government who would have well known this for a long time hiding it under the carpet.

These people should stop and think of those that voted for them, a thing I wished I’d never done now because all we get is a barrow full of lies.

Take MPI and the dishonest findings about the Hoki and the Southern Ocean Whiting for example, and the Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage. I don’t believe that she knows which end of the possum the head or the tail belongs too.

Now she has gone and given our water away to some overseas crowd and what are we getting for it? Nothing for NZ? Is this another Free Trade arrangement that John Key organized?

On top of this she and a handful of greenies from Forest and Bird have stopped 55 plus people in Westport getting a job because of some rubbish around a coal mine.

It’s no issue for her she is on a good wage. It shows that she doesn’t

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give a stuff aboit the people in this town who are forever struggling.

I know the area well and have been there many times. There is nothing in the way of animal or birdlife there because the 1080 drops have killed them all.

Her pest free by 2050 is a fairy tale dream, it will never be, ask any forestry farmer, hunter or bushman as they know the bush better than most.

I admit I also voted for NZ First in the hope Winston would honour his word about stopping 1080 and since last year he hasn’t uttered a word which explains a lot about the integrity of this man.

There is a ‘Hikoi’ on its way to Wellington – let’s hope they stop the 1080 once and for all.

Dick Featherstone Thames

Prosecute DoC

Dear Sir I just received on email some stuff re tendering for 1080 drops from the Department of Conservation. It said is an ‘over-view to protect our native wildlife” which DOC has implemented the “Battle for our Birds” (BfoB) pest control programme.

“We are seeking to establish a national panel of suppliers with experience in managing 1080 aerial bait drop, for when the Department chooses to outsource these services due to internal resource constraints.”

“We are going to host a pre-tender briefing session on Monday 9th July at 9:30 in Wellington.”

“The purpose of the meeting is to provide you an overview of the Battle for our Birds programme and to seek ideas, questions or suggestions as to how we can best select, manage and utilise the services you are able to provide.”

If DoC want to “protect our native wildlife” especially birds they should stop using 1080 which does not differentiate between animals, birds and even insects. In fact it was invented as an insecticide. DoC knows it kills insects, birds and animals. Is there not a heavy penalty for knowingly killing native birds under the Wildlife Act? Well Minister of Conservation Eugene Sage how about prosecuting your department? Well at least pull an out-of-control department into line.

W. Coote Wairarapa

Queen’s Birthday Honours

Dear Sir When I see the recipients of Queens Birthday Honours like Finance Minister Bill English, Fish and Game secretary Bryce Johnson and several awards for conservation of people I have never heard of, I realise the

awards are just a load of elitism.

Bill English was finance minister during the period of the National government when NZ’s debt went from $16 billion to $70 billion between 2008 and 2017 and trade deficits were one after another.

Bryce Johnson was secretary for Fish and Game NZ during which there was fiascos like banning felt sole waders and lead shot, Canada geese classed as pests, rising licence costs, an abortive court case against high country farmers that cost a lot of money into hundreds of thousands and other blunders. To be fair Johnson’s recommendations were approved by a national council, but he I take it, made the proposals?

The national Fish and Game council seems largely weak. Let us wait and see how the new CEO goes.

What of deserving people who get no recognition? Nor did they seek a medal. I think of the late Bill Benfield who passed away in March this year and which you Mr Editor, fittingly published a tribute. Well done I say on your part because you recognised Bill Benfield’s untiring, committed efforts towards conservation.

His three books “The Third Wave Poisoning the Land”, “At War with Nature” and “Water Quality and Ownership” are outstanding, dedicated books which should be read by all.

Tross Publishing were the publishers and I gather copies are still available.

The difference between those who were recognised in the Queen’s Birthday honours and Bill Benfield is, Bill never sought medals or “gongs” as they are termed. Perhaps only those with “delusions of grandeur” as my duck shooting companion put it, got them.

My calculated guess is Bill would have declined an award and said let’s get on with the job. He probably saw through the shallowness of the elite honours system anyhow.

“12 Gauge” Wairarapa

Town water supply to be poisoned by 1080 Dear Editor,

On Wednesday, June 13th I was one of 30-40 residents who attended a meeting hosted by OSPI/ DOC/EPRO in Turangi. The purpose of the meeting was purportedly to consult with the local community over the proposed aerial 1080 drop in the Pihanga/Kakaramea area, one of the most heavily poisoned regions in the country, and directly adjacent to our town.

Our biggest concern was whether consents have been given to allow this deadly toxin to be dropped into water, namely the myriad of small streams that contribute to our Turangi watershed. We were informed that the 1080 would be dropped into these waters, and some very loud and angry opposition ensued.

The next question raised was that, in accordance with the guidelines surrounding Permission for the use of Vertebrate Toxic Agents (VATs) such as 1080, condition 25 stipulates that all residents within three kilometers of a drop zone , which includes the entire town of Turangi, should on request, be provided with an alternative supply of drinking water by the contractor.

Roger Lorigan, the owner of pest contracting business EPRO, informed those who approached him with such a request, that no such water would be supplied, as the spring that supplies our town water had been set aside as an exclusion zone.

This even further angered all those in attendance because there is more than one way that people’s drinking water is contaminated - through

people drawing water directly from a wide variety of streams, through 1080 dust spray-drift, and through baits and carcasses in waterways.

People sought information from Public Health Unit Enforcement Officer, Brayden Leonard, who confirmed that the law did allow residents to ask for an alternative source of water.

The potential impact means now the entire town of Turangi and all its residents may be forced to drink water that might be a risk to public health.

The manufacturer of 1080 poison expressly instructs, on every container of poison several safety precautions including the following; (1) That the poison should not be dropped into any water, stream, lake, etc.

(2) That carcasses of animals killed should be removed and/or buried.

We feel our representative body, Taupo District Council, has made a hastily considered decision to sign off on this aerial 1080 drop, which has now put an entire town’s health at risk, especially those who are pregnant and have young children.

The Council should at the very least amend its instruction, to ensure that the residents of Turangi (should this drop go ahead), can all have a free supply of clean safe drinking water throughout and after the poison operation.

We also feel that an effort should be made by the Council to inform all Turangi residents of this possible risk to human health should this drop go ahead.

Louie DeNolfo

We won’t give it up We won’t give it up I’m telling you Telling you Telling you, we won’t give it up No, no, no So don’t even Don’t even Don’t even try Commercial fishers lie All they do is dance between the lines They won’t change Fake gold claims And shades to hide those eyes You can’t complain Its just the nature of these times, times We won’t give it up I’m telling you Telling you Telling you, we won’t give it up No, no, no So don’t even Don’t even Don’t even try Courtesy of Six 60

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Doc contractors get abusive DoC staff and contractors are so scared of 1080 protesters that they have now stooped to abusive emails and letters in response to the 2080 protesters revealing the truth about the cruelty to animals. We have posted a copy of an

abusive email in response to posts about a DoC contractor on our Facebook page but it is too disgusting to share in the newspaper. https://www.facebook.com/ fishing.outdoorsnewspaper/

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1080 Poisoners Walk Out of Public Meeting Chinese owner fights access to Forest Park

by John McNab

An OSPRI public meeting on the “drop in” format to discuss a 1080 poison drop at Alice Burn near Wanaka, came to nothing when hosts OSPRI and the Department of Conservation walked out. OSPRI’s explanation for the abandonment was officers “felt unsafe” and threatened by “1080 activists”.

The walk-out action by OSPRI drew gasps of amazement from many of the public.

Tracey Morrow from Luggate, rejected OSPRI’s fears.

“Nobody was even vaguely menacing or threatening or anything else,’ she said. “We were there to have a peaceful community discussion expecting to have our questions answered.”

Linda McLachlan of Timaru wrote to the “Otago Daily Times” and said the decision by OSPRI and the Department of Conservation “seemed to be the way OSPRI and DoC get out of answering difficult questions regarding their use of 1080.”

OSPRI is a partnership between farming industries and government and was formerly the Animal Health Board. OSPRI and DOC are the two major spreaders of aerial 1080 poison. The 1080 drop was OSPRI’s response to a local cow herd infected

by bovine TB.OSPRI’s explanation was “our staff had to leave because they were concerned for their safety.”

But Linda McLachlan rejected those fears and said that people opposed to 1080 came from different backgrounds and none that she knew of were violent.

“They’re people who love the outdoors, who love to see wildlife thriving, who love animals and cannot bear the cruelty inflicted by the slow and painful deaths by 1080.”

She then assured OSPRI, “you should not feel unsafe and DoC you should not feel threatened. Instead you should feel very ashamed of what you are doing. Your insidious poison is killing our country.”

The “drop-in” meeting was advertised as being from 4 pm to 7 pm but local people opposed to 1080 used social media to publicise the meeting further asking people to be present at 5.30 pm as a ‘unified group’ with questions. People were not happy with the “drop in” format as such a format limits the public to one-to-one sessions with an OSPRI officer, while a public forum is more open of debate.

But a Wanaka local Cherilyn Walthew said people had simply retrieved chairs and sat down in

a group endeavouring to convert the drop-in style to a community meeting. There was no physical intimidation or shouting she said.

Carol Sawyer of Wanaka said there was no “protest group” there. It appeared the decision to abandon the meeting was made earlier as the hall was “a big empty room with a small notice board inside the door. Seating was necessary.”

Local Tb-Free committee member Phil Hunt was reported as saying he was disappointed OSPRI had decided on a “walk out” even before the meeting began. Phil Hunt to his credit, did stand up and endeavour to answer questions to his credit said Carol Sawyer.

“At least Phil had the guts to stay and try to answer questions,” she said.

Former MP Richard Prosser attended and with his background knowledge of the TB issue and 1080 gave “a most informative talk”. Richard Prosser was a NZ First MP but was inexplicably demoted on the party list from number 3 to 15. Reports said the reason was lobbying by corporate sea fishing industry, after donating heavily to the party’s election campaign.

Cleopatra and Hercules visit Queenstown

Queenstown Forest School had two special visitors recently, baby

possums being hand-reared

by Pamela Adams of Haast.

Pamela made the three hour trip from Haast to Queenstown, collecting an assistant when she reached Wanaka.

It was a frosty morning indeed, but they went over the Crown Range to Arrowtown where they met up with Tam Schurmann and her 16 schoolchildren at the historic Chinese Village in Arrowtown, beside the Arrow River.

Cleopatra (so-named because she loves grapes) and Hercules, (the programme was on TV at the time) were a great hit.

The problem was there were only two baby possums! Everyone wanted to hold them, tucked into their little beanies. So they stayed for 2 1/2 hours by the river. The children loved the

instead of our unique birds as the Green Party run rampant.

Our native wildlife cannot survive with these continual 1080 drops. Only 1/8 of the conservation estate/National Parks has any predator ‘control’, leaving 7 million

posed to safeguard our heritage are letting us down.

The Overseas Investment Office approved the sale and was signed off by National government ministers who imposed conditions around tramping access.

Those conditions said the new owner must put in place access to the Aorangi Forest, as recommended by the Walking Access Commission.

But Wong has rejected all the recommendations made by the commission, over the last three years.

Wong says granting access rights would impact on New Zealand’s reputation overseas The forest park is home to the Putangirua Pinnacles, the eerie earth pillars featured in scenes in the film Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.

The station has barred trampers from

Queenstown Forest School at the “Chinese Village” Arrowtown, beside the Arrow River with guests Cleopatra and Hercules

possums, and there are 16 children who will not grow up thinking of possums as “vermin” (as former Minister of Conservation, Maggie Barry, loved to categorize them). Nor are they likely to want to participate in school “dress up a dead possum” competitions!

hectares unprotected. We do not need any more poison on our land.

Current methods of control rely mainly on the mass application of tens of thousands of tons of persistent toxins every year which have failed to halt the steep decline of New Zealand’s unique native species. The critical state of New Zealand’s wildlife is proof that past and current control methods are not working.

Over the last decade successful, innovative, New Zealand invented and manufactured non toxin selfresetting traps have been developed. These exciting state of the art traps are now sold in 17 countries throughout the world, successfully combating rats, mice, grey squirrels, feral cats, ermine, (stoats), snakes and mongoose. This technology can be deployed throughout New Zealand’s mainland, including native forests, urban and suburban areas at a total cost of approx. $5 billion over a 15 to 20 year period.

The stakeholders in Predator Free NZ speak for themselves DOC, OSPRI, local Government, Landcare Research, Pure Advantage, Nga Whenua Rahui, QE II Trust, ESRI, Eagle Technology, Forest & Bird, WWF NZ, Federated Farmers, Fish and Game, NZ Sanctuaries, Janzoon Trust and the Universities of Auckland, Massey, Waikato and Victoria.

Is it any wonder that countless native birds and other species are being annialated because of this incompetence.

walking 7 kilometres, a two hour walk, up the Otakaha Stream to reach the 53-year-old hut which was built by the Forestry Service and is now maintained by the Department of Conservation.

Wong has rejected all approaches to solve the issues.

The commission retained a lawyer and in November last year the Overseas Investment Office stepped in. After OIO officials reviewed the file they triggered a dispute resolution process, set out in the conditions of approval.

Opening up Kawakawa Station to trampers and cyclists would help “to bring nature and the outdoors to more of our community”.

Pyle said the commission worked with landholders to find “practical solutions, and we’re happy to compromise to ensure a solution can be found that works for all parties”.

On behalf of wild native birds The old Greens always put conservation at the heart of our kaupapa.

Now, it seems they have been infiltrated by a far left wing body of loonies with no regard for conservation.

Eugenie Sage a known left wing former Forest and Bird member is leading their charge of stupidity and loonicy as they ramp up the attack on our native forests and birds.

New Zealand is in the middle of a predator crisis. Possums, stoats and rats are threatening our native birds like kiwi,

kaka and kakariki/parakeets and precious natural areas on a huge scale.

But thanks to the Greens being in government, they are dumping more and more 1080 on our hunting, fishing and tourist areas rather than use more common sense ways to protect them.

The extra funding increase will enable DoC to con iwi and community organisations to undertake comprehensive and sustained predator control. Iwi have betrayed their people for profit.

This shows exactly why they are

Commercial fishers fined

Immediate action is required If we do not take immediate and bold action, New Zealand’s wildlife is at a tipping point toward mass extinctions, which will result in our forests containing nothing but rats, stoats, weasels, feral cats and Australian possums

Public access to a forest hut and tramping route is being blocked because the Chinese owner HongKong based Eric Chun Yu Wong of a Wairarapa sheep station is deadlocked with officials. Wong bought the sprawling $3.3 million Kawakawa Station, at Cape Palliser, in 2015 The extraordinary dispute will now go to independent mediation - the first time this has ever happened and if the row can’t be resolved the Overseas Investment Office has the powers to order the property be sold.

The Walking Access Commission is a paper tiger, it needs to assert its authority, not meekly give in and the OIO (Office of Investments from Overseas) doesn’t even do its job, it is supposed to consult with Iwi, Historic places, and Fish and Game.

The two groups who are sup-

Two commercial fishermen have been convicted and fined after a commercial set net was found to be blocking off almost all of the entrance to Symonds Bay in the Manukau Harbour and the $20,000 aluminium vessel at

the centre of the offending was ordered forfeit to the Crown.

Members of the public reported the offending in July last year after one of the men was twice spotted setting and retrieving a commercial set net from a vessel in the bay.

not ever needed in government.

With the Greens in charge increases the risk of 4,000 native plants and animals going extinct!

The simple answer to saving our forests and native birds is to vote them out in the next elections, the next win for our special native plants and wildlife will be the Greens extinction?

On behalf of wild New Zealand and our native birds, bats, insects, forests and fish, thank you for your vote against these loonies.

The net had effectively blocked off more than a quarter of Symonds Bay. The second man, who is the owner of the vessel and holds the commercial fishing permit the vessel was operating under, was not on the vessel on the days in question but admitted he failed to provide proper training or direction to his skipper.

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Treaty of Waitangi breached by Crown Treaty ofWaitangi breached by Crown The Department of Conservation has breached the Treaty of Waitangi legislation by allowing the aerial dropping of 1080 onto areas where the people of New Zealand gather their food.

Can the Crown guarantee that our people’s kai is not contaminated in areas where 1080 and other poisons are used?

Very doubtful, in fact “No”, the Crown can’t and because it cannot be guaranteed of non-contamination by 1080 and other poisons, the Crown is contravening the Treaty and this is extended to include gathering food and medicines in any place; as many farms border areas where 1080 has been aerial dropped and in many cases buffer zones have been breached by the pilots.

And that the killing of the people’s native birds and animal species through first and secondary poisoning is also a breach of the Treaty.

It is also believed that under a Grandfather clause wild pigs, wild deer and game animals can now be claimed as food as initially they were an introduced species for the interests of recreational hunting by all New Zealanders, Maori and non-Maori, and they have now become an integral part of our daily living and food gathering.

New Zealanders and tourists have direct access to many of these areas for recreational purposes and by dropping 1080 poison onto our waterways this is affecting our micro-organisms, which in turn affect our insects, native birds and other species, and taonga food like water cress, koura, eels, and wild trout, which are essential to our food gathering and the health of kai.

The knowing part of killing na-

tive species puts in place the fact that DoC are knowingly doing this and that they have deliberately breached the right of all New Zealanders to gather food.

Under Article 2 of the Treaty, we are assured of the security in our rangatiratanga over our lands, villages and “possessions”.

Article 2 of the true Maori language treaty which approx 500 chiefs signed refers to ALL the people of NZ (not just Maori).

Ko te tuarua Ko te Kuini o Ingarani ka wakarite ka wakaae ki nga Rangitira ki nga hapu – ki nga tangata katoa o Nu Tirani te tino rangatiratanga o o ratou wenua o ratou kainga me o ratou taonga katoa. Otiia ko nga Rangatira o te wakaminenga me nga Rangatira katoa atu ka tuku ki te Kuini te hokonga o era wahi wenua e pai ai te tangata nona te Wenua – ki te ritenga o te utu e wakaritea ai e ratou ko te kai hoko e meatia nei e te Kuini hei kai hoko mona.

Article second The Queen of England confirms and guarantees to the chiefs and the tribes and to ALL THE PEOPLE OF NEW ZEALAND, the POSSESSION of their lands, dwellings and all their property. But the chiefs of the Confederation of United Tribes and the other chiefs grant to the Queen, the exclusive rights of purchasing such lands as the proprietors thereof may be disposed to sell at such prices as may be agreed upon between them and the person appointed by the Queen to purchase from them.

These possessions include our forests, fisheries and resources. Clearly there are many examples through history of this article not being honoured. One key area of concern is the degradation of fisheries, traditional

food sources and natural resources.

In the Wai 262 Claim also known as the flora and fauna claim, rights around indigenous flora and fauna and other taonga were sought. Taonga includes traditional knowledge and intellectual property rights over cultural ideas, design, language and much more. Legislation is said to breach the Treaty in this respect.

Under NZ legislation ‘Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 in the section on the Treaty of Waitangi, it states ‘All persons exercising powers and functions under this Act shall take into account the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.

you to the submission of counsel meaning of the Treaty, the promises recognise and provide for the folfor that group. Also, the Crown has that were made at the time (and lowing matters of national imporfailed to acknowledge s13 (1) (d) of since) to secure the Treaty’s accept- tance, (e) The relationship of Maori the RMA with this proposed activity, ance, and the principles of partner- and their culture and traditions and apparently intends currently ship and reciprocity. The duty is, in with their ancestral lands, water, to continue to do so. This matter is the view of the Court of Appeal, ‘not sites, waahi tapu, and other taonga. also addressed in the argument pre- merely passive but extends to ac- The Resource Management Act sented by the Community Group. A tive protection of New Zealanders 1991, Section 8 Treaty of Waitangi judgement is currently awaited, but in the use of our lands and waters - in achieving the purpose of this it is to be noted that Forest and Bird to the fullest extent practicable’, Act, all persons exercising functions have changed their view on the law and the Crown’s responsibilities and powers under it, in relation to in this matter and now support the are ‘analagous to fiduciary duties’. managing the use, development, appellant. It is unlawful for any per- Active protection requires honour- and protection of natural and physison to deposit any substance into able conduct by, and fair processes cal resources, shall take into acor onto the bed of a river, without from the Crown, and full consulta- count the principles of the Treaty a National Environmental Stand- tion with – and, where appropri- of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi). ard, provision in a Regional Plan or ate, decision-making by – those The principles of the Treaty of Waita Resource Consent. None of these whose interests are to be protected. angi include the duty of the Crown exist in the current situation. Were The NZ Conservation Authority, in to act reasonably and in good faith So there it is: The crown has this current intention to be acted its document The Treaty and the and the duty of the Crown to activebreached the Treaty of Waitangi. upon, it would be unlawful, accord- Legislation, at paragraph 3.1.2, ly protect our interests and make Those persons operating under ing to this argument. It would be states, The injunction of Section informed decisions (which in most the Hazardous Substances and unwise to proceed with the pro- 4 of the Conservation Act [1987] cases will require consultation).

New Organisms Act are bound posed drops while the matter is that it “shall so be interpreted Maori still are guardians of all by the Treaty of Waitangi as under consideration by the Court. and administered as to give ef- natural resources under Article 2 stated in the legislation and the Public Interest is the welfare of the fect to the principles of the Treaty” of the Treaty, iwi are assured of seTreaty guarantees the right to general public in which the whole - is unique in New Zealand law. curity in their rangatiratanga over harvest non contaminated Kai. society has a stake and which war- It establishes a stronger obliga- their lands, villages and “possesThe Crown sideline their treaty rants recognition, promotion, and tion than other recent legislation: sions” – these possessions include obligations from decisions of vi- protection by the government and Section 8. End at (Te Tiriti of forests, fisheries and resources. tal importance to our New Zea- its agencies. Despite the vagueness Waitangi) and remove the final The aerial dropping of 1080 poison land culture – for example, deci- of the term, public interest is claimed lines beginning: and requires must be stopped immediately besions about the flora, fauna and generally by governments in mat- that all persons...of the Treaty. cause the Crown cannot guarantee wider environment that created ters of state secrecy and confidenti- The Resource Management Act non-contamination of kai and we our culture, and decisions about ality. It is approximated by compar- 1991, Section 6 Matters of national can no longer accept the continhow education, culture and herit- ing expected gains and potential importance - in achieving the pur- ued breaching of the Act, as under age agencies support the trans- costs or losses associated with a de- pose of this Act, all persons exer- the Treaty we are guaranteed the mission of culture and identity. cision, policy, program, or project. cising functions and powers under absolute right to gather food unIn conjunction with this claim, the It is the Crown’s duty to protect our it, in relation to managing the use, der the protection of the Crown.

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While the Royal New Zealand SPCA wants an immediate plan to find a more humane alternative to the use of 1080 poison and believes 1080 “inflicts terrible, prolonged suffering on the animals that it poisons.

Now we finf Fotest and Bird backing down because of the damage 1080 is doing.

NZ First the Greens co-alition partner is directly opposed to the aerial spraying of 1080.

The New Zealand Deerstalkers Association, which promotes the interests of hunters in New Zealand, has reiterated their national policy of

ing the increased use of the poison.

Eugenie Sage said her priority as minister would be to slow the decline of the country’s biodiversity and to better protect wild landscape. A former Forest and Bird activist you have to wonder where her loyalties lie.

This PR stunt has been proved to be a complete lie by protestors.

Sage said the Government needed to re-order its spending priorities, “to ensure we protect our native birds and bats from extinction and that other vital conservation work will still get done”.

The Greens who have traditionally taken a precautionary approach to toxins have also expressed concerns

about the long-term effects on 1080.

However, Sage said they recognised it was the most cost effective option and a useful tool for pest control.

“Particularly in inaccessible country it is much more cost effective to use aerial 1080 than ground based trapping but we think there needs to be a suite of tools and selfsetting traps are one of the tools in the tool box,” she said. “They are particularly appropriate around homesteads, the areas that cause most concern for people.”

Many Green Party members belong to Forest & Bird, New Zealand’s biggest conservation charity, which strongly advocates for the continued use of 1080 poi-

Party really stand for?

1080 poisoning is one of the cruelest, most inhumane ways of killing any animal which takes up to 4 days of tortuous agony and by-kill of native species is a significant risk. Surely this goes completely against any form of environmental, conservation based theory when our ‘Green Party’ of tree hugging, animal lovers condone this?

This betrayal by the Green Party and NZ First must be remembered, they must be held accountable for this stance and pay the ultimate price in the next elections.

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Greens back increased 1080 use Serious concerns have been raised about security of potable water supplies in areas where 1080 is applied and the resulting deaths of pets, including the poisoning of trout and infection of wild pigs and deer.

Under the Treaty of Waitangi we have protections in place for these areas where tourists go tramping and for kiwi’s recreational use.

While you may well be against the Treaty but it was put in place for all New Zealanders not just Maori.

Then along comes ex Forest and Bird activist Sage in the Green party. This supposed environmentally and conservation focussed party has hypocritically ignored its members and policy by advocat-

opposing 1080 poisoning in the face of the Parliamentary Commission report advocating its increased use.

Fish and Game have taken a back seat and refuse to comment.

While the Green Party considers the use of 1080 poisoning as the main weapon in the war against animals regarded as ‘pests’ yet it is an extremely cruel practice and at what cost to our country.

1080 kills everything, from our micro-organisms, to slugs, slaters and insects and then those birds, lizards and other animals that live on the forest floor.

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A series of responses from Official New Zealand. But no-one seems Information Act (OIA) questions to care about the risks, even when have highlighted the shocking the Health and Safety at Work Acts dangers to the public from stored clearly states it is the “duty of the pesticides. Public concerns about Person Conducting the Business the risks from New Zealand Govern- or Undertaking (PCBU) to obtain ments’ continued widespread use of and provide access to Manufacpesticides (many that are banned turer’s Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)” in the rest of the world) are regular and that includes short summadebates. But what about the risks to ries for the Emergency Services. w.fishingoutdoors.org and1080 advertise online with usevidence about in scientific health from poisons–like even Gaps before they are spread by helicop- the risks from 1080 poison are ters over our land and water? Well, enormous. We simply do not know many tonnes of the poisonous cere- the impact of dust exposure over al bait and perhaps even the highly the long-term; potential chemical toxic raw poison itself has to be reactions when mixed with other stored somewhere. Nationally, there chemicals; effects of consuming are hundreds of ‘highly hazardous’ sub-lethal doses through food/ storage sites, most deliberately kept water or the harm from inhalahidden from public knowledge; tion of toxic fumes when it’s alight. essential warning signage and Health and Safety Laws are conevacuation instructions are absent. stantly being updated and attempts Prior to aerial application, DoC, to increase accountability and deour councils and commercial com- crease the disproportionately high panies often store tonnes of 1080 numbers of work-related deaths and and other highly toxic poisons like illnesses in New Zealand. The Health Brodifacoum, illegally. For instance, and Safety at Work (Hazardous a 1080 storage site at Tua Marina Substances) Regulations 2017, Secnear Blenheim has apparently been tion 3.2 spells out how those storwithout any valid risk assessment ing extremely toxic chemicals like and associated emergency plan Compound 1080 should ‘Manage since 2016. And similarly, in October the risks’. That includes unplanned 2017, prior to a poisoning opera- emergencies like earthquake, fire tion in the Coromandel, 23 tonnes or tsunami. For instance, 1080 is of 1080 poison was stored in a highly soluble and toxic to aquatic public carpark near a supermarket life and also, when burnt, 1080 in Whitianga CBD. Neither the Fire poison generates extremely toxic Services nor the local DHB had been Hydrogen Fluoride gases, so in the informed. These are only two events event of a fire, special equipment that have come to the authors’ at- and evacuation maybe necessary. tention; no doubt there are numer- Inevitably, fires in pesticide poious other high-risk sites throughout son storage sites do occur. On

10th October 2006 18 people were hospitalised after a hangar apparently storing Brodifacoum caught fire in Murupara, near Rotorua.

Recently, on the 19th January 2018 a fire broke out just after 1am at a Horizon Council depot, within a residential area. The building was storing various hazardous substances, including 1080 poison and other pesticides. But it appears from the Incident Reports that 1.5 hours after the firefighters arrived on site, Horizons Regional Council claimed incorrectly that they had ‘no records relating to that building’. And hours later (when Horizons finally admitted it was their depot) council workers were unable to contact the emergency key-holder. As the roof collapsed, aerosols exploded in the heat and fire spread, it is a miracle that no-one was seriously injured or even killed. Understandably, without the MDSS and important signage, there was confusion from the fire-fighters about what to do. The serious shortcomings within this fire event should have been reported to Fire and Emergency HQ in Wellington. However, until our telephone a month later with Kerry Stewart ‘Policy and Doctrine Advisor, National Operations’ (13 February 2018), the incident was apparently a mystery to them.

WorksafeNZ define this kind of danger as a ‘notifiable event’. But Claire Morris ‘Response Manager’ at Worksafe confirmed they have declined to investigate the matter. Fire and Emergency NZ have

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provided us with a risk assessment form, but no evidence that this is enforced at extremely hazardous sites like the Levin depot, which makes that document – along with the health and safety

laws surrounding it - worthless.

So the dangers from lethal, toxic fires continue, along with the “she’ll be alright” attitude to health and safety.

And as the amount of aerial operations using 1080 poison increases in

quantity, location, toxicity and regularity, so does the risk to the public.

Is there a deadly 1080 poison storage depot near you?

Forest & Bird challenged on dishonesty Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash has challenged Forest & Bird to engage positively with the commercial fishing industry after dishonesty using 10-year-old pictures to misrepresent current fishing practices.

Nash told the Forest and Birds annual conference in Wellington that it is not only dishonest, but incredibly damaging.

That was in reference to a widely circulated picture of common dolphins caught in a trawl that is being used in a campaign calling for cameras on boats.

‘If you think that all fishermen and women are evil people who disobey the law and seek money over sustainability then I am sad to say you will never make any progress,” Nash added.

Nash said that he launched Fisheries New Zealand to help distance fisheries from the MPI, which he perceived to be “a rather toxic brand”.

He is now seeking to build relationships and work with key stakeholders.

Nash added that the roll out of cameras on fishing boats

had been delayed but he was developing a Cabinet paper on revised implementation.

Given Nash’s frequent assurances on proper consultation and transparency, the industry expects to be given due opportunity for meaningful input.

‘Change is coming,’ Nash said ‘and I absolutely believe that you will add more value if you are in the tent contributing, rather than outside throwing stones,” he told conference delegates.

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Bring back plenty to the bay

The Environment Court has supported the banning of fishing on Astrolabe Reef and two other Bay of Plenty fishing spots near Motiti Island which has given the Bay of

interim decision on the appeal led by Motiti Rohe Moana Trust against the Bay of Plenty Regional Council’s Coastal Plan. The Court says they have the potential to significantly boost tourism, particularly recreational diving.

For too long the inshore resources has been degraded by sedimentation, rubbish and over-fishing to a point that has seen the local Bay of Plenty fishers including the commercial fishing fleet thin out to a handful of operators.

“We have had a hard time outside, it’s hit and miss some days” Plenty Regional Council an op- says one local fisher. The interportunity to potentially remove generational local fishers have all bulk harvesting methods from changed gear as they become within their coastal marine area. aware of the decline and damage The Environment Court issued an to the resilience of the sea. Only the big operators continue to use big nets to sweep and mop up the last fish from our community fishing grounds.”

The recent decision from the environment court has created a pathway for the expression of community and environmental values.

These could preserve the resource by imposing restrictions on activities which damage or destroy the marine environment and character.

The decision awaits the outcome of the Court of Appeal ruling on whether councils could use the Resource Management Act to control fishing - or

whether control should continue to be left to the Ministry for Primary Industries using the Fisheries Act. J. Smith’s 59-page decision followed a nine-day hearing at Mount Maunganui last year at which the Regional Council defended its plan.

The larger bulk harvesters which operate out from Tauranga have no business fishing inside the 12 nautical mile line other than to further decimate what little fish stocks are left.

The opportunity for the Bay of Plenty Regional Council is to remove high extractive and destructive methods such as nets, pots, and dredges from the 12 mile where they decimated the once productive recreational fishing grounds of our grandparents.

Other Councils have done this already, such as the Marlborough

Council, which removed the use of contact bottom activities, like dredging to preserve the habitats within in the Marlborough Sounds.

MPI then followed suit and closed the Challenger Scallop fisheries.

This shows that MPI can do the right thing if they know how bad the management is. It is a slow recovery and recently this closure was extended and shows the need to act. Councils need to get off the fence and do their duty to preserve our coastal relationship with marine resources.

The Personal Assistant and advisor to Stuart Nash a Mr Addy Hill said in the 2018 court case about MPI management, “100 days of making up how they can pull the wool over the community eyes.”

“While fine scale information is not available for rock lobster and kina” “Assessing stock management is a

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Not all stocks are assessed each year” It is time that New Zealanders and the recreational community stood up and voice support for the removal of methods that take away from future generations, and write to their respective councils that they need to be proactive in supporting the restoration of our marine area.

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Fresher water, more fish knot speed rule applies wherever two vessels are within 50 metres of each other in the river,” he said.

Prior to 1956, the Kaituna River naturally flowed into Maketū Estuary some or all of the time. Mr de Monchy said the original diversion of the river’s flow way from the estuary and out to sea at Te Tumu Cut was done to protect low-lying farmland from flooding and improve drainage.

“But the result has been a loss of estuary health that’s not acceptable to iwi and the wider community.

Tangata whenua and local residents have been calling for river flows to be restored to the estuary since 1979. After several years of feasibility studies and consultation we found a way to help restore estuary health while maintaining existing levels of flood protection and boat access through Te Tumu Cut,” he said.

Regional Council began feasibility assessments for the project in 2013.

Eighteen different methods and options were considered before Council committed to a preferred option and progressed detailed design, consultation, land acquisition, and consent application processes to prepare for the construction works.

Regular Te Tumu Cut (Kaituna River mouth) surfcasters and Ford Road boat ramp users will need to find new fishing and launching spots when Ford Road end closes for Kaituna River re-diversion construction works from 1 August this year.

But Bay of Plenty Regional Council Kaituna Catchments Manager Pim de Monchy said that the long term benefits will be worth the short –term inconvenience.

“The Kaituna River re-diversion project is all about restoring the health and mauri (life force) of Te awa o Ngatoroirangi Maketū Estuary. That includes revitalising traditional fish breeding areas and upgrading fishing, carpark and boat ramp facilities at Ford Road,” Mr de Monchy said.

To enable that, Ford Road end and the Ford Road boat ramp will be closed due to construction works from 1 August this year. An upgraded new carpark and fishing

platform will open at Te Tumu Cut by 20 December 2018, in time for surfcasters to enjoy it this summer.

An improved new Ford Road boat ramp and carpark facility will open by 30 June 2020.

The Bell Road boat ramp will be the primary lower Kaituna River launch point during the Ford Road closure period. Mr de Monchy said that regular Bell Road boat ramp users should expect to see large waka ama canoes on the river more often from now on.

“The Maketū Hoe Waka Club have temporarily relocated from Ford Road to Kaituna River Road during the construction period. That means they’ll be training upstream of the Bell Road boat ramp more often than before. The waka are very long and can span across most of the river’s width when turning, so speed boats need to be prepared to slow down and manoeuvre around them at all times. The five

The chosen design will return an average of 600,000 cubic metres of fresh water from the Kaituna River into Te Awa o Ngatoroirangi Maketū Estuary on every tidal cycle. $3.6m has already been invested in the planning and land acquisition work completed to date. Bay of Plenty Regional Councillors approved further funding of $13.5m and awarded the construction works tender to J Swap Contractors Limited in May this year.

Construction work started in June 2018 and is due for completion by 30 June 2020. The work includes creation of a new channel to carry fresh water from the river into a new inlet structure at Ford’s Cut. Existing stop banks will be shifted and upgraded. Ford’s channel will be also be widened.

Sign up for updates and see further project details at www.boprc.govt.nz/kaitunarediversion

Kiwis killed on Stewart Island by DoC of a world on its own.

The sunrises and sunsets in soft southern light are amazing.

Visitors can explore pristine beaches, sheltered inlets, and coastal forest, and see seals, penguins, kiwi, weka and many other native birds. There were also opportunities for hunting and fishing before this destruction by DoC. Many kiwi outdoor recreationalists have spent time at Mason Bay and at Freshwater, and have walked across to the island and round some of the coast being able to see our native birds in their environment.

The image of a dead kiwi from the Rakehua block Stewart natural Knowing that this is Island - sorry for the confronting image happening because We have been made aware of this DoC have laid this terrible poiwonderful kiwi bird killed in the re- son is shocking, and we despair cent 1080 poisoning on our beauti- what is happening to our beautiful ful Rakiura, with disastrous results. places throughout New Zealand.

We are appalled.

Our wildlife and native birds are Rakiura National Park is located on being wantonly killed by the Stewart Island/Rakiura of which Green Party, Forest and Bird and the Rakehua block is part of. the Department of ConservaIt encompasses a network of for- tion under the guise that they mer nature reserves, scenic re- are wanting to eradicate rats’ serves, and state forest areas. stoats and other pests. This is a lie.

The island lies only 30 km south west The biggest lie ever enacted by of Bluff, and exudes all the charm DoC. Their propaganda and lies

have been exposed on many Social Media pages and complaints have been covered up by the NZ Police, District Health Boards and other agencies. Many staff are too scared to speak up for fear of losing their employment.

DoC have had their PR bureaucrats hard out inventing propaganda and lies to deliberately con the people of NZ that 1080 is safe?

It is not safe and DoC are breaking the laws of NZ and have breached the Treaty of Waitangi.

How could you they this?

What goes on in the minds of these people while they are laying the bait, when they know this will happen?

How can they live with themselves knowing they are torturing and cruelty killing our native birds indiscriminately?

Not a single Stewart Islander was remotely happy with the impending use of 1080. Many are involved in trapping and hunting.

DoC and DoC staff have overridden their sense of justice, morality and ethics and their own consciences.

Actions like this make us ashamed to be New Zealanders.

Most kiwis will not condone such measures against any animals native or introduced especially when there are many alternatives.

1080 POISONING MUST BE STOPPED.