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Race for Life comes to the Coromandel

A family fishing together and catching some great snapper

Sometimes it’s the help we get from others that makes all the difference.

Chuck Matene said that from an

Jordan helping to take fish off the hook

early age his children took an interest in fishing. Initially he only had a 10 foot dinghy which was

adequate for his two eldest then as the others came along it was always a task to choose which ones

were going fishing as by then the family purchased a 14 foot boat,

which was still only suitable for four.

“I would like to take my family fishing together at one time” says Chuck. However with his current health issues, that desire was way off the chart.

Alex van Tuyl the Race for Life Trust wish co-ordinator (that fulfils the wishes of Palliative Care Patients, those who are dying) took the Matene family to Coromandel to fulfil chucks wishes.

Damion (Chuck) Matene, lives in Pukekohe and has just turned 50.

He has just had a recent diagnosis of cancer in his chest wall which unfortunately has already spread and he doesn’t have much time left.

Chuck is a very quiet man with a beautiful loving wife and together they have bought up a loving family, that have a passion for fishing.

His one wish was to spend some time making memories with his children. He has five children ranging from 6 to 16. Damion 16, Kyle 15, Toko 11, Victoria 9 and Tamati 6.

He contacted Race4Life and requested that he would like to do a scenic Railway ride and go fishing with his children one last time as a complete family.

So the good people of Coromandel stepped up and made these dreams come true.

Race4Life and Fullers organised a return ferry ride for the family to Coromandel Township.

There’s one thing can count on with fishing and that is when you need someone to step up Coromandel Fishing Charters is at the head of the queue. When Tom and Lorraine heard of Chuck’s plight they were first to volunteer.

With the able assistance of Jordan the skipper of the ‘Joint Venture’ they were able to turn on a trip the family will never forget.

They were able to sit down to a beautiful breakfast on board and then they went hard out catching some nice snapper. It was pretty easy to see the kids shared a passion together as they helped each other out, catching good sized fish and easily filling the chilly bins.

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SEE INSIDE Page 2 - Anyone for a

Bar-be-que

Page 6 - Letters to the

editor

Page 9 - Makarora

1080 drop illegal

Page 12- Fishing

Industry really good at lying

Page 17 - Coro Seafood

Fest

Page 19 - Cameras could

force half fishers out

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Anyone for a Bar-be-que?

Grilled Pork roast or Pork Belly

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Was taking a road trip around Auckland the other day and happened per chance to call in and see the folk at UFO Cookers in Wairau Road, on the North Shore.

They had the stainless steel barbeque out under the front verandah and the smell of barbequed pork greeted us. Wow what a surprise.

The barbeque is the invention of Wayne Dil and he has spent hours upon hours designing this machine, fit for any Man Cave or batch at the beach.

What Wayne has done here is design a charcoal burner that transfers heat into an oven where the pork and chicken is grilled to perfection.

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He has located a UFO smoke generator on the side which you can light up to give that extra smoky flavour.

And the cream on the cake is the keg underneath where you can entertain your friends while waiting for the succulent food to appear.

Kiwi ingenuity at its finest.

4kg pork shoulder or pork belly 1 teas chopped garlic ½ cup low salt soy sauce ¼ cup lime juice 1 can ginger ale ½ cup brown sugar 1 cup Tomato Sauce 1 teas sea salt 1 teas freshly ground black pepper powder Mix the marinade ingredients together in a bowl: minced garlic, soy sauce, lime juice (or lemon), tomato sauce, half of the ginger ale, salt, black pepper.

Leave ½ cup of the marinade plus the sugar, aside for the grilling glaze. Pour the rest of the marinade over the pork. Keep in a container. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate the pork overnight.

Pre-heat the barbecue to a medium high heat (375 F degrees). Get ready with the grilling glaze, add the sugar and remaining ginger ale into the mix.

Place a grill rack over a shallow pan, which has the horizontal slots across it. Grease the entire grill rack. Place the pork on the grill rack. Position the shallow pan in the centre of the barbeque.

Grill the barbecued pork, about 30 minutes on each side. Baste the pork every ten minutes or so, so that it gets moist and shiny.

When cooked, serve hot on long platters and garnish with tomatoes, cucumbers and green salad vegetables.

Always add the sugar ingredient in the marinade or glaze just before grilling the meat. This way, the sugar does not crystallize or stay too long on the pork cuts which causes the barbecued meat to harden.

Grease and prepare a shallow baking pan, measuring ap-

proximately 9 x 13 inches with a height of not more than 2 inches.

Enjoy the whiff of the pork cooking while supping on a cold pint.

Watch the succulent pork transform into dark, glazed delights.

Gather the family and friends, but save some for yourself.

Barbeque Grilled Chicken Ingredients ½ cup olive oil 1 teaspoon sea salt ½ teaspoon ground black pepper ½ teaspoon paprika ½ teaspoon cumin ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper 2 cloves garlic, chopped 3 tablespoons chopped onion finely ½ cup chopped fresh parsley 1½ cups beer This spice blend just works beautifully and is one that is great to have on hand.

Pour olive oil into a 2-cup liquid measuring cup.

Mix together salt, pepper, paprika, cumin, and cayenne pepper and add to olive oil. Add garlic, onions, and parsley. Mix together well with a fork. Slowly add beer as it will cause the mixture to foam and bubble slightly.

Once I’ve mixed up my spices and beer, I just pour it over the chicken that has been placed in a large zip top bag.

Seal up the bag and turn from side to side to make sure all the chicken is well coated. Remove as much air as possible from the bag and seal.

Place it on a dish and put into the refrigerator for at least an hour, but hopefully overnight.

Turn the bag every few hours.

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Mike King with his new PB kingfish on a light jigging set up. 15kg off Gannet, near Raglan .

Gave the light gear a good go

Mike King with his marlin

Three young fellows with their catch Zac, Matthew and Andrew caught on a charter vessel out from Kawhia

Whangamata Ocean Sports Club Junior results

The Whangamata Ocean Sports Club results and photos from their recent Junior Game Fishing

Comp on Marth 4th.

There were 54 anglers and perfect weather for their young guns and within the hour they had caught more fish than their Classic did in 3 days!! With the Skip Jack section fiercely contested it was great to see the Juniors bringing in some good fish.

All kids went home fed & watered courtesy of WOSC and all prizes were well received. With special mention to our local lure maker Robert Spencer who kindly donated over 50 homemade lures! Hope to see the juniors again next year!

Kahawai: 1st Corban Mathers, Maxifun, 2.876; 2nd Alex Muirhead, Blue Star 4, 2.426; 3rd Emma Johnston, Su Sea, 2.096.

Kingfish: 1st Jayden McCarthy, Seeka, 11.150; 2nd Kayden McCarthy Seeka, 5.170.

Albacore: 1st Hannah Rogers, Pasadija, 1.620; 2nd Lauren Tinning, Hot Tuna 2, 1.043; 3rd Mollie Robinson, Sword Dust, 0.946.

Skippy: 1st Lynda Rogers, Pasadija, 6.445; 2nd Jamie Scott, Hot Tuna 2, 5,837; 3rd Jordan Haimona, Fin Reaper, 5.812.

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$35 per spear fisher.

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All fish are to be gutted and gilled.

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Fish auction at 4.30pm.

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want to go home and sort out the fish already caught. This involves an early morning excursion, one around lunchtime and an evening fish. The trips are more than just going out fishing – it’s more about going out for the adventure and to catch the various species available.

Coromandel Fishing Charters offer more than a fishing experience as there is a lot more to the Hauraki Gulf than people imagine.

To Book your Charter or Christmas function call Tom or Lorraine on 0800 267624 or 027 8668001 or the office at 07 8668928.

Email: corofishing@gmail.com fresh when filleted.

Coromandel Fishing Charters work in unison with Salty Towers Bait and Tackle shop who offer a fish filleting service along with supplies of salt ice, bait, berley and tackle supplies and they have fresh mussels available to take home as well. Salty Towers generously filleted the catch and vacuum packed the fillets ready for the family to take back to Auckland.

Michael from Coromandel Discovery provided transport to help the family to and from Hannaford’s wharf.

Accommodation was

Race4Life Trust

The Race4Life Trust was established in May 2015, to fulfil the wishes of palliative care patients (18+) and is the only trust in New Zealand that specifically provides this service, to enable people living with life limiting illness to realise their dreams and create memories that they and their families can cherish.

The trusts mission is to seek to provide people with the means to fulfil their wishes.

A wish is a gift of optimism and happiness at a time when people need it the most.

To be able to be able to fulfil these wishes is a privilege and makes such a difference for the wish recipient, their family and the community. A wish brings people together, provides a memorable experience and a connectedness of families and communities.

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The trusts first wish was fulfilled in September 2015 and since then they have fulfilled wishes to 70 recipients; 95% of which were in the Auckland Region.

Currently the Race4Life Trust is a totally voluntary service that is funded through the generosity of supporters, businesses, donors, grants, volunteers and communities and all operations are managed by one volunteer with support from a Board.

The Race4Life Trust grew out of an annual event which commenced in 2008 to provide an opportunity for Mercy Hospice patients and their dear ones to enjoy a day out doing something very different.

The event was operated by a group of businessmen and women, race car owners and drivers, sound sponsors and many volunteers, family members and organisations. And different it was, whether it was riding in a racing car or on a Harley Davidson, taking a trip in a helicopter or experiencing the deep throated roar inside a Mustang muscle car.

The key for patients, families and helpers was “togetherness”.

It became apparent through shar-

provided at ‘Top of the Hill’ which is well set up for fishing groups.

Being only two minutes from town on six private acres, it provides an excellent spot to unwind with family or friends. They have sheltered fish filleting facilities, a choice of two smokehouses, outdoor barbeque area, Pizzeria (Indoor Pizza oven and bar) with loads of safe car and boat parking.

For more photos of the boats, accommodation & visitors comments check out the Bookabach listing ID #18733.

As an alternative they also have ‘Fish Inn’, self-contained accommodation in the heart of Coromandel town. ‘Fish Inn’ is a very short walk to the pubs, shops and cafes and has ample off street parking. Bookabach listing ID #37501.

The ‘Top of the Hill” accommodation also operate Coromandel Boat Hire which has two x FC430 centre console boats. They are surveyed for 4 people max per boat. Staff are happy to launch & retrieve or you can self-drive. Staff can also offer advice about good fishing spots etc. as around the Coromandel water experience is essential.

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ing and listening on that day that there were a good many unfulfilled desires amongst those whose life expectancy was limited.

Thus arose what is now officially called the WISH-LIST service, which is the true basis of the Race4Life Trust.

The event was so successful and created wonderful memories for families and their terminally ill family members that a decision

was reached to make it an annual event and to call it RACE FOR LIFE. In 2015 the Race4Life Trust was formed to fulfil wishes to palliative adults (18+) and create memorable experiences for the recipient and their family.

Go to www.race4life. co.nz for more information.

The Government’s 90 per cent swimmability target covers waterways over 40cm deep and lakes more than 1.5km in perimeter so the target is practical and measurable, Environment Minister Dr Nick Smith says.

“A creek or stream that is less than 40cm deep is not that practical to swim in and there is not the reliable data on water quality in the 400,000km of smaller waterways to enable us to set meaningful targets.

This shows how shallow and biased the government really is towards water quality and is quite unrealistic given that a good percentage of pollution comes via these smaller waterways.

This is because the regulatory authorities have not carried out their responsibilities over time and allowed waterways to get to the state they’re because they have sided with industry in the degradation. The fact that a smaller creek or stream is unswimmable is an irrevalent point and should not be taken into account. Many fish species live in these areas and poor water quality has an effect on them.

requirements in the NPS. The national targets and monitoring system to ensure progress will not work if each region has different definitions.

However the Councils can get away with poor monitoring and have no-one to answer to. A regulatory body needs to be set up to ensure that Councils toe the line and that every CEO is held responsible for the failure of his staff to comply.

“The Government is step by step strengthening our management of fresh water. We introduced compulsory water metering in 2009, the first NPS on Fresh Water in 2011, the requirement to limit nutrients in 2014, the Environment Reporting Act in 2015 and these swimmability targets this year. We have also increased by six-fold funding for fresh water clean-ups to $450 million.

“The Government shares with environment groups an ambition to improve New Zealand’s water quality but where we differ is ensuring the standards and targets are practical and affordable.”

These comments by the minister show how naive he really is and how his perception has been shaded by those involved in allowing pollutants to enter the waterways and is shows how he doesn’t understand the damage water extraction can do to smaller creeks and streams and the lower reaches of larger rivers.

Smith goes on to justify his rant: “It is incorrect to claim there is no requirement under the National Policy Statement (SPN) to improve water quality in these 400,000km of creeks and streams.

Ninety per cent of these flow into rivers and lakes that have specific targets and monitoring requirements. There is also a general requirement on councils to improve water quality in all waterways.

“I would encourage councils to include in their monitoring and reporting smaller waterways if they are locally significant. However, it is not practical to make it compulsory or to include it in the national targets. I have already had councils raise concerns about the costs to ratepayers of the new monitoring

NZFIRST TABLES WATER ROYALTY BILL New Zealand First today tabled an amendment to the Crown Minerals Act that would collect royalties on drinking water exports.

“The government refused leave for the bill to be introduced because they can’t seem to make their minds up on charging for drinking water exports,” says Denis O’Rourke, New Zealand First Environment Spokesperson.

“The Prime Minister says on one hand that he will look into it, while Environment Minister Nick Smith spent most of the

week saying that the current volume is too small to worry about.

“Even a modest per-litre royalty on nine-million litres of drinking water exported would generate at least $900,000 per year, and that is a lot of money, especially when that sum can only grow.

“If drinking water exports went to 0.001% of all extracted water, royalties grow to about $20m a year and that’s not only good for taxpayers, it could also be great for the economic development of the regions that water comes from.

“This is why New Zealand First today tried to introduce in Parliament an amendment to the Crown Minerals Act. This would classify drinking water for export as a mineral for the purposes of the Act and would then be subject to a royalty to be decided in consultation with the people of the region the water comes from.

“And it also ensures that 25% to 50 % of royalties would go back to those regions for local infrastructure and for regional economic development and job creation,” says Mr O’Rourke.

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Letters to editor A new style of governance Dear Sir Three things happened in the last weeks or so that are beginning to entrench a new style of governance.

Prior to that, back in May last year, an order in council changing the game for OSPRI and definitions of Tb incidence and time frames was quietly slipped through the house. It was interesting in that the whole deal was shaped by an unknown and clandestine “steering committee”. It is now law.

The next one was Nick Smith changing the rules to take discharge of aerial contaminants section out of the RMA and put it under direct ministerial control. This way, spreading, specifically brodifacoum and 1080, could be taken from the act and be by ministerial direction with no local government involvement.

Now, Urban Development Authorities are a new concept in planning, short cutting the RMA and local input and putting urban development under direct ministerial control.

It is probably not finally, because I suspect there may be more than I have found, but again, river water quality and monitoring, an activity of regional government and district health officers, have just had had the ground rules changed by ministerial direction. Clean water can have a far higher E coli count now than they did a week ago.

It is interesting that in the last three cases, the minister involved seems to be Nick Smith.

Bill Benfield Wellington

All Dunne in Dear Sir Ohariu MP Peter Dunne wants to shift summer holidays back until the weather is hotter. Surely immigration, NZ’s heavy debt, society’s ills and violence, deteriorating rivers, and decimating our inshore fishery, selling out to foreigners etc are far more important?

Dunne entered politics as a rookie MP in the 4th “Rogernomics” Labour government.

Since he has been in and out of National and Labour-led governments conveniently bed-hopping often to those in power. At one stage he hopped into his own United Future boudoir.

Currently he holds the Internal Affairs, Associate Health, and Associ-

ate Conservation portfolios. Dunne’s the proverbial bed-hopper, arguably politically promiscuous, simply sycophantic support for whoever’s in power. Achievements to note? Daylight saving shuffling?

Nuh! Shifting public holidays?

Nuh! I don’t know of anything else.

As a swinging voter I view it as 33 lack-lustre years. Delving has revealed should Dunne get defeated in 2017 or resign, his ‘retirement‘ would conservatively be in excess of $100,000 per year for the rest of his life plus life-long 90% discount on international fares for he and spouse, plus national super.

By the ways what’s in Ohariu’s drinking water?

Tony Orman Marlborough

DEMOCRACY MISSING What is now missing in more and more Political parties is the base core of what we as people have fought and died for and that is Democracy.

We the people have lost our voice to a bunch of elected self-righteous bigots who have now taken the law into their own hands and are completely in denial of what that word means.

We as a people have allowed a bunch of Civil servants to take away our Democratic rights by stealth to give them the ability to enforce their thoughts over our rights for their own purpose.

Until we as a people realise this and rebuke them they will continue as is. They must be reminded that they are elected as our representatives and our voice.

wise “duty bound” but in this case to the Minister of Conservation Maggie Barry. We all know Maggie is more a gardener than a conservationist don’t we? We all know Maggie will believe anything her department (DoC) tell her to do.

We all know DOC put helicopters into the ranges under Wild Animal Recovery Operations (WARO) with no regard for recreational hunters.

We also know DoC carries out 1080 aerial drops over the conservation estate which takes out many deer.

I am surprised and disappointed NZDA seems to have been sucked in onto the council where it is strongly out voted by commercial and other non-recreational representatives.

Keep up the good work of keeping the Kiwi fishing and hunting public informed of such threats.

Jason McDonald Auckland

Governor General office is anti-environment

The destruction of our environment for corporate greed is affecting us all and worse it is a hazard to our health.

We are now just a green country, the pure clean bit has gone.

The government are involved in ecoterrorism as they implement their neoliberal ideas, now our water is green, our lakes and rivers are turning green, green water to go with our green country, and it’s all covered in cow shit.

Greed has taken over from common sense as the government, councils and corporates have turned their backs on the citizens of this country.

Roger Murray We need an organization that holds politicians and councils accountable. Even the GovernorGame Council General office has let the people down by refusing to allow Dear Sir letters to reach him. Shame on them.

Your paper does a great job of in- Maybe a letter to the forming the fishermen and hunting Queen as a last recourse. public about what is going on. The Name withheld news item last issue on the Game Animal Council was an eye opener.

What started out as a levy on tourist Lake Tutira hunters taking trophies out of the country has been twisted to be a Dear Sir levy on the NZ recreational hunter? New Zealand prides itself on clean The council reminds me of the green scenery. It’s Kiwi blue water.

Recreational Hunting Advisory The reality is so much different.

Council of a few decades ago. It At Lake Tutira in Hawkes Bay NZ, I was duty bound to the Minister camped again last night and saw of Forests in those days. It had no at first light this morning, the state voice and members from memory of the water. Discoloured with fine were gagged from talking outside. green slime and blue scum seeping The Game Animal Council is like- into water. Ducks, swans and heron birdlife swimming and feeding in it.

This battle for the survival of our water, soil, air and natural resources is upon us right now. The water does not lie. Its state is one of distress and slow death. I smelt its sickness. It reminded me of the smell of a pig farm.

Meanwhile pine forest logging, dairy farming, spraying, road works, bitumen are all contributing trauma and toxin into the local water table feeding this lake.

I took a bottle of the green water inside a Kiwi Blue bottle. I tasted it. Not very nice. It would be a good taste test for parties that deny the severity of our water problems. Parties such as Big Agribusiness, Intensive Dairying, Pinus Radiata Forests, Mining and Oil fracking, nitrate fertilisers, bitumen surfaces and calcium hydroxide cements, 1080 poison drops.

Proof is in the drinking. I believe

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we will need water policing and deterrent measures that really hurt.

Otherwise our waters will continue to worsen. You drink the water you dump your shit in. Or you eat food that you spray toxins on. You get your rubbish dumped over your head. Or local variations thereof. Punishment is just one deterrent. We also need new water technologies that can rapidly clean these polluted waters.

Hirini Reedy Hawkes Bay

Rec Hunting Levy Dear Sir I was staggered to read last issue your report of a proposal to levy New Zealand recreational hunters to fund the Game Animal Council.

It was a surprise to read the move was being pushed by the NZDA national president. When you tote up figures NZDA membership of the total NZ recreational hunters is a very small percentage.

It all started as I understand with a proposed game trophy export levy to be applied to international tourist hunters taking trophies out of NZ. In noted in a farming paper, commercial deer hunting interests are grumbling. James Guild a member on the government’s Game Animal Council was quoted as saying “The levy — is a heavy tax on our business —for the sole benefit of the recreational hunting sector.”

Excuse me Mr Guild. Benefits for recreational hunting sector?

He must know the Department of Conservation to which the Game Animal Council is attached by statute has increased helicopter operations (WARO) and loves chucking 1080 poison around public lands to kill deer. Why would recreational hunters jump to pay a levy to a council which is effectively an arm of DOC? I did a quick search on google. The 11 members of the Game Animal Council are:- Donald Hammond (chair), Thomas (Mark) Brough, Roger Duxfield, Professor Geoffrey Kerr, Steven McFall, Alexander (Alec) McIver, William O’Leary, Garry Ottmann, Terence Pierson, Roy Sloan, Carol Watson. William (Bill) O’Leary is current NZDA national president. Recreational hunters seem to be in a minority on council.

I urge hunters to keep a close eye on the goings-on of the Game Animal Council.

“Farmer-Hunter” King Country

Water Quality – Council responsibility Dear Sir Water quality is and always has been the responsibility of Councils.

When water quality gets to the extent that it has heads should roll. Clearly in most businesses if things fail we get rid of the man ultimately responsible and in this case it’s the CEO. Our Councils and council staff are not held accountable enough.

They must be put on performance based contracts and if they fail to comply then out they go.

It’s pretty basic and pretty good method of getting compliance.

The new standards do nothing for the quality of our water.

Then we have Watercare.

What do they actually do?

Who do they report too?

Again are they accountable?

Something catastrophic must be wrong with our Councils and Watercare when the water is allowed to deteriorate to the extent is has.

It is disgraceful that our harbours, estuaries and waterways are getting polluted, to the extent they are and industry is allowed to continue, under the guise of building our economy, councils are responsible and must be held accountable.

Just look at the debris from mussel farms yet the councils and NIWA say they comply. What a lot of rubbish!

Wouldn’t it be nice if Watercare a council owned outfit could sort its shit out so to speak the year is 2017 not 1817.

It appears that our public health standards been ignored.

We are all responsible for our own actions and could do more to ensure that we comply and don’t dump rubbish and chemicals down our drains.

We should all value the health of the ecosystem of our waterways.

Name withheld Hamilton

Trawlers are to blame Dear Sir I find the new proposal to stop trawling on the West Coast a rather pathetic attempt to stall stopping trawling altogether.

Now that Sanfords and MoanaNZ have finally admitted that trawling is the primary reason for dolphin deaths why is the government not fully protecting this area and stopping trawling - NOW? The fact they are trying to keep this quiet like every other bloody inquiry further proves they are no longer fit to look after our resource.

The key there is simply “the indiscriminate methods of net fishing is no longer acceptable to kiwis”. That’s all the evidence needed in a democratic nation. It’s time to speak up and be heard, and the new PSH trawl method that will save the world (according to the commercial fishers) is still a trawl boat and not acceptable.

Brian Jones Auckland

Govt - lack of forward thinking and planning The Government is being urged to heed the just-released OECD report on New Zealand’s environmental performance.

In its report, the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) warns that New Zealand’s economic growth model is reaching its environmental limits.

Among the concerns it highlights are the rapidly declining inshore fishery, the quality of New Zealand’s freshwater, the impact of irrigation and declining biodiversity.

The OECD report is produced every ten years and Fish & Game New Zealand chief executive Bryce Johnson says the latest analysis makes for sobering reading.

“This report starkly portrays what is happening to New Zealand.

“Much of it will be of no surprise to New Zealanders who are becoming increasingly concerned at the state of their environment and the government needs to listen and act by unequivocally putting the environment first,” Mr Johnson says.

Bryce Johnson supports the OECD’s recommendation that the government review its support for irrigation, something he says is well overdue.

“At the moment, the government is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into irrigation as a subsidy for intensive farming and ignoring the impact this is having on the environment and fish, including native species.

“The present situation is becoming unsustainable, with examples of where irrigators are allowed to take more water from some rivers than actually exists in them“, Mr Johnson says.

Bryce Johnson says the OECD report highlights the lack of forward thinking and failure to plan strategically for the country’s longer term future.

“New Zealanders – especially young

New Zealanders - are not being given the chance to consider what sort of future country and society they want and plan to achieve their dream.

“Unfortunately, formally structured, national, transparent, long term futures thinking and planning is simply not happening, and the country is suffering as a result,” ’Mr Johnson says.

He says it is time the government confronted this failure by turning its back on short term expediency and establishing a Parliamentary Commission for Future Generations.

“What is needed is a body to provide clear, politically independent advice to the government on preparing for the future – something that is becoming increasingly essential if we are to protect New Zealand’s future competitiveness in the global market-place.”

Mr Johnson says there a clear benefits having such a commission.

“For a country so reliant on its soils, fresh water and natural landscapes, we urgently need a body formally responsible for identifying and publishing options for our path to the future.

“Our economy is heavily dependent on its land and water yet we are treating the environment woefully.

“Future generations will not thank us when they inherit the consequences of this critical failure to properly plan for them, rather than focussing on making a quick buck now,” Mr Johnson says.

“We must start planning to abandon the present failed economic strategy based on degrading our natural resources and expanding visitor numbers to the point where over-crowding is displacing Kiwis in their own outdoors.

“This would fit well with the findings and recommendations of this latest OECD report and position New Zealand well for its next report.”

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Book reviews

Venison the Game Larder

By Jose L. Souto Hunting for and dining on wild venison is second nature to most kiwi outdoor hunting types. Most of us grew up with Uncles and father figures showing us the ways and means of shooting, firearm safety, camping, stalking and the list goes on.

It’s part of the kiwi heritage and few people that I associate with haven’t tasted venison in one form or another.

The most basic and probably most favourite method of cooking venison is taking th backstraps, cutting them relatively thin, rolling them in a plastic bag with flour and salt and pepper, then throwing them into a scolding hot frypan with some butter.

The speed at which the steaks disappear tells the story.

Jose says “Game to me is as special as it gets. It is a product of our countryside, a natural form of food, harvested at its peak in a very short season. Game is the closest thing to the food of our ancestors before we domesticated animals and it is still one of the main truly seasonal foods left to us.”

This book gives us a slightly different perspective on the finer points of cooking venison, certainly if you want to impress the neighbours or the wife there are some classic recipes here.

There are over 50 recipes from José Souto, the game expert and senior chef/Lecturer in Culinary Arts at Westminster Kingsway College, who gives masterclasses on preparation and game cookery to other chefs worldwide, as well as teaching a new generation of student chefs how to cook venison.

José has added to his own repertoire of 30 dishes by inviting guest chefs to add their own favourite venison recipes to this book, opening up a wide range of dishes, from simple venison lasagne to elegant dinner-party show-stoppers.

Not just a cookery book, this is a celebration of deer: in stunning pictures, world-renowned photographer Steve Lee showcases British deer, deer-stalking and the delight in harvesting nature’s bounty, with a breath-taking array of shots.

Available from bookshops and www.nationwidebooks.co.nz Price: $79.99

This is an important time Waikato Regional Council is holding a by-election in Hamilton.

Clyde Graf is the only candidate who has a record of boldly battling issues that affect wildlife and the outdoors.

He worked hard as a councillor for Thames-Coromandel, helping locals find solutions to decades-old problems such as flooding in Tairua.

He was so determined to keep

the true story about pesticides in the limelight, that he received three code of conduct complaints.

We need to vote for him because he speaks for us. And we have to do it before 11 April. Hamiltonians, dig out your voting papers and vote for Clyde Graf.

Authorised by Clyde Graf, 4 Parkdale Crescent, Hamilton.

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Claim your game bird hunting spot!

Remember to stake your claim to your favourite maimai or duck shooting stand before the start of the new hunting season now only weeks away Saturday, 6 May, 2017.

The process of claiming a hunting stand goes under many names depending on region – marking up, pegging or tagging – but whatever it’s called, if a hunter wants to retain their favourite spot, they need to do it before 10am on Sunday April 9.

The rule applies to all 12 Fish & Game regions around the country.

Tagging your favoured maimai allows you to set yourself up for the season ahead, ready to harvest birds over opening weekend –

and then have first claim on that spot for the rest of the season.

Hunters with an existing maimai who have already purchased a new 2017-18 game bird licence are able to stake their claim to the maimai any time before 10am on, April 9.

Other hunters wanting to stake their claim over an unclaimed maimai for the first time must wait until after 10am on that date.

Rules on who can use a hunting spot also apply once the game bird hunting season begins.

The rules state that hunters then need to be at the maimai within one hour of the opening hour of hunting.

If they aren’t there within that time,

Firearm Owners beware New heavy handed police policies for the approval of “A Cat” firearms to enter the approved firearms list. Be warned this affects all NZ licensed gun owners!

The two most worrying policies are: 1) “A Cat” firearms must now have a civilian use which police approve of.

This gives police complete control

over what you do and what you shoot.

2) Incomplete firearms - eg AR15 receivers, rifle chassis must be assembled into their complete format.

Once approved, that receiver/chassis is only allowed to be sold in that complete format. This means with brand X rail, Model Y trigger, model

Hunting license proposed It has been proposed by DoC and the associate Minister Peter Dunne in conjunction with the Game Animal Council to make hunters pay for wild animal management in NZ. Doc and the Game Animal Council are proposing that funding come from recreational hunters and the only way that can happen is by way of a hunting license.

When the GAC was first proposed it was pretty much agreed to by hunters at large based on the fact that it would be funded by the export of trophies by overseas hunters.

They are now saying that hunters in general will have to front some of the $1.6 million a year budget.

Interestingly when the GAC was formed the manifesto says “Guaran-

Toothless Advisory Bodies I read with interest and a lot of concern March issue’s article on page 8 (“Plan To Levy NZ Hunters Gets Shot Down”). My membership of NZDA goes back to the 1950s when the late Dr Graeme Caughley and I as teenagers starting work in Wellington, joined the Wellington NZDA branch. The late John Henderson was then branch president and went on to serve two stints as national president first in the 1970s then in

the 1980s. The stimulus. for John’s return to national president was over the Recreational Hunting Advisory Committee which was set up by government. NZDA naively had at least two members, one being the then national president. The RHAC was duty bound to government while its members were forbidden to report back to the hunting public. John Henderson was incensed at this undemocratic, government-

the spot can be used by any other licensed hunter for the rest of the day.

To reclaim your spot for the upcoming season you first need to buy your 2017-18 Game Bird Licence, which contains your claim tag. The new season licences went on sale on March 16.

Hunters are advised to get their licence early to avoid the last minute rush.

In the Auckland Waikato region, hunters are only allowed to load three cartridges into their shotguns shots, a rule first introduced in 2013.

Eastern and Hawke’s Bay asked for voluntary compliance of the three-shot rule last season but are

making it compulsory this season.

And the West Coast Region is introducing a five shot rule this season.

Wellington and Nelson – Marlborough Regions are banning magazine extensions for shotguns.

The shot restrictions have a conservation aim, and also encourage hunters not to shoot at birds moving out of range.

In the South Island, the season for mallards in all regions runs for nearly three months from May 6 to July 30, with bags ranging from 10 to 50.

And hunters in all regions are again urged to take advantage of the longer season for upland game birds, including pheasants and quail, which runs from May 6 to 27 August in a number of regions.

Z stock. The receiver/chassis cannot be sold in any other configuration.

The document then goes on to elaborate on MSSA length policies.

To summarise: 1) Length is measured collapsed.

Under 762mm your gun is a pistol.

2) If you purchased an MSSA under the old police approved policy and you can’t make the gun comply you must hand it in for de-

struction without compensation.

At what point does our political parties stand up to Police policy makers and stop them from hounding 250,000 licenced firearm owners with ultra vires policies that do nothing to prevent crime? http://www.police.govt.nz/ sites/default/files/publications/ measuring-length-of-mssa-firearms-classification_-approval.pdf

teed free access to the Conservation Estate for all New Zealand citizens.”

Treasury is saying that the users should contribute and DoC and the GAC have agreed to look at “other funding proposals”.

What this means is a hunting license for all wild animals such as deer, pigs, Thar and so on.

The NZDA seem to be in approval as they chair the committee that has proposed it so I don’t think hunters can look to them to lead the way on this.

This is one of our principal free-

doms as a New Zealander to go hunting and feed our families. To actually have to buy a licensee and start being controlled by a host of rules is just not our KIWI WAY. So it’s bye bye to Dunney, and to the GAC if they want to carry on like this.

This sort of treacherous behaviour is what current governments have done with regards many outdoors recreations and should not be tolerated. DoC, the GAC along with Ospri and TBFree NZ must be disbanded.

bound situation. So he stood against the then national president at the Nelson NZDA conference, defeated him and was thus returned for a second period as national president.

The current Game Animal Council seems a replica of that RHAC of the 1980s. It is by an Act of Parliament duty bound to the Minister of Conservation which in reality, since the minister fully depends on advice from the department, means the Department of Conservation.

I would have expected as a NZDA member for some 60 years, that in 2017 the lesson from the Recreational Hunting Advisory Committee would have been heeded.

The Game Animal council has all the characteristics of the RHAC:(1) members are politically appointed by the Minister, i.e. DOC. This has only a vestige of democracy.

(2) Duty bound to the Minister, i.e. DOC (3) Recreational hunting has a minority vote In addition, at a Nelson meeting about the establishment of the Game Animal Council, I pointed out to the meeting and chairman

Gary Ottman, that the structure of the Game Animal Council, arguably contravened NZDA policy on a number of aspects. These included the minority vote for recreational, the “toothless” advisory status, political appointments and other principles.

These points were not challenged by several other NZDA persons present which included former NZDA national executive members and ones that were destined to be, indeed the current NZDA national president who is now on the Game Animal council. So I assume the points as undisputed, were correct. Does the proposal to levy NZ recreational hunters also contravene NZDA policy?

A modicum of thought about the Game Animal Council shows a parallel to the recent actions of the present government to “centralise” or install dictatorial, dominant state control of the use of 1080 poison and river quality controls, i.e. RMA proposals.

The Game Animal Council essentially represents state control of hunting.

Tony Orman Marlborough

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1080 POISON CRUEL

Guy a Disgrace to NZ

A vet who is prepared to speak out against the use of 1080, is Dr Howard Ralph BVSc (Hons).

MBBS (Hons), MVS (Wildlife Medicine), JCCA Accred (Anaesthesia), Dip TESL, A/D Fine Arts, Cert Ed NSW, Clinical Forensic M O. He says “1080 poison - it is like being electrocuted for 2 plus days”.

“Death from 1080 is cruel and protracted. Animals receiving a lethal dose of 1080 show severe signs of poisoning, with death resulting from heart or respiratory failure. Clinical

I really hope we can get rid of Nathan Guy this election. The NZ fishery has no hope of recovering while a buffoon with no ears, to hear when told and no eyes so can’t read submissions and no understanding of words like management or sustainability.

Nathan Guy seems to want a pat on the back each time he is forced to put down quota of a fishery.

Guy has just put down cray quota to two areas CRA3 and CRA4.

What a total moron Guy must feel when he took no notice of submissions and recreational pleas not to allow the undersize concession cray for commercial in CRA3. Everybody except his precious exporters said if you catch undersize cray by the ton you will deplete the CRA3 fishery.

The fishery is depleted so he will put it down 23 ton. That is a pathetic response. As if the Hawkes Bay fishers haven’t been punished enough by commercial fin fishers; and the export company over there; with 350 fishing offences against it. The CRA3 quota TAC should be cut by half and the concession cray be abolished now.

The CRA4 quota Guy has put down by 108 ton. What a total incompetent mismanage ecological disaster for a fishery to get so bad for so long that you have to take 108 ton of TAC from it.

At some point some politician with some guts and or even a little common sense has to start listening

and terminal breathing.) Seizures included stiffening of limbs with hunching of the shoulders; jerks in limbs, head, abdomen or shoulder; signs of poisoning include rapid leg paddling; rolling onto the back and laboured breathing, tremors with a stiffened body; continuand muscle spasms, terminal con- ous body rolling; trembling; and vulsions and death. It usually takes rigidity of the entire body. Pospossums between 6-18 hours to die.” sums were sometimes propelled “From about four hours after poi- into the air by these movements...” soning until death all lethally dosed 1080 is not a humane way possums exhibited spasms involv- to kill any animal. Death is ing the limbs or body. Possums painful, torturous and slow.” vocalised during spasms, tremors What kind of scientist could actuor seizures. Vocalisation was loud ally deliberately poison possums and prolonged. (Squeaking, gasp- to see what 1080 poison did, then ing and gagging noises were also witness this and not want to put frequently heard during retching the poor creature out of its misery!

Was DoC’s Makarora 1080 drop legal?

The Department of Conservation’s aerial drop of 1080 at Makarora at the head of Lake Wanaka to combat rats was illegal according to critics.

Carol Sawyer, a Wanaka based conservationist, said the justification for the drop was to reduce rat numbers to below 5 percent in rat tracking tunnels but monitoring showed rat numbers well below the standard.

However the rat tracking surveys over the past two years ( January 2015 to December 2016 ) according to figures just re-

leased via an OIA request are that only 1.9% of 2,280 tracking tunnels had evidence of rats.”

Carol Sawyer said the figures had been obtained from the Otago Regional Council.

She said the conflict between the 5 percent figure and the recorded monitoring figures showed that the Department of Conservation had a disdain for both the public and the ecosystem.

“1080 was developed as an insecticide in 1920s but became

a pest poison. It still kills insects and invertebrates and birds and animals. In a couple of words, it’s an ecosystem poison.”

The cavalier and careless attitude of DOC was appalling she said.

DOC was meant to be a public servant serving the public interest.

“But they’re on their own agenda drumming up business for the government owned SOE poison factories and to heck with conservation values. To the contrary they’re destroying not conserving,” she said.

NZ First’s Opposition to 1080 Applauded

to the recreational cray gathers.

These holiday fishers and locals who have been saying to the MPI and anybody who will listen “there are hundreds of cray pots out there” or “I couldn’t find a reef without a cray pot while on holiday” or “I used four tanks of air and all the crays were just under size” Mr Guy needs to get it plain and simple he may be celebrating the cray export industry but the NZ people are not.

Nathan Guy has been the worst fisheries manager NZ has ever had. The recreational fishers are on the brink of storming the Beehive with flaming torches. The Maui Dolphin/Blue Nose/John Dory/Hapuka/Sea Lion/ Seal/Bird/Crayfish/Snapper BOP/ Trevally/Red Snapper/Pink Mao Mao/Kahawai/Tuna/Marlin/Rig/ Trumpeter are all in serious trouble in stock levels and fish size itself.

Even though the funny little man that prefers girls pony tails to boys is no longer Prime Minister Nathan Guy still continues to aim for the unsustainable export double policy. The only good thing he will do is single-handedly put half or most of the inshore commercial fishing fleet out of business.

Thanks to Mr Guy for waking up the biggest population of sleeping recreational fishers by threatening to put the snapper day catch down to 3 in SNA1, so he could give the commercial fishers an extra 500 ton. The

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recreational fishers stand to take a large proportion of water space off the commercial fishers forever.

The recreational movement is now very organised and through social media is both nationwide and international. Even the National Party supporters surveyed were disgusted with Nathan Guys performance when 63% said there should have been a royal commission of inquiry into MPI’s performance.

It turns out that Nathan Guy is the one who was supposed to ask for the commission of enquiry but he didn’t have the guts to, simply because he knew that his Ministry was so corrupt he would as its minister be forced to resign.

If Guy really wants to know the truth he should ask Colmar Brunton to do a survey to describe him and his performance. Then he will know what people really think about him and his performance.

Nathan Guy seems to be able to void himself of responsibility for what the primary industries do under his watch as Minister.

His fishermen have killed the Maui dolphin; forestry has filled up the beaches in the Marlborough Sounds with pine needles; dairy farmers have taken excess water from and heavily polluted our waterways in an all-out effort to double the export value and all part of his Primary Industries portfolio.

It is my opinion the Mr Guy lacks any type of patriotism for NZ – he is a complete and utter disgrace to this country and democracy.

by John McNab

New Zealand First recently reconfirmed its aim to end the use of 1080 poison to applause from key spokesmen.

Bill Benfield co-chairman CORANZ said it was welcome news but the use of the word “pest” perturbed him.

“1080 is merely the tool, they need to address DoC’s false pest picture,” he said. “However NZ First emerges as the only party to oppose 1080. It’s a start.”

Sporting Hunters Outdoor Trust spokesman Laurie Collins said the announcement would be “sweet music” to the increasing number of New Zealanders who were seeing through the dangers of 1080.

“It’s election year and in September there’s now a viable voice in Parliament to vote for,” he said.

New Zealand First Leader and MP for Northland, Winston Peters, in his press release said New Zealand First was the only credible Party committed to ending 1080 use and the only party with a plan to replace it.

“New Zealand First is fully committed to completely ending the use of 1080 in New Zealand as soon as is possible, and doing so without compromising our pest control requirements,” he said.

Nz First pledged to

1. Immediately provide adequate resourcing for, and initiate, trapping and other ground-based measures for pest control, in all areas where this is known to be feasible.

2. Immediately allocate adequate resourcing, and initiate proper and urgent research, into alternatives to 1080.

3. Before any further aerial application of 1080 is permitted to be undertaken, resource and initiate comprehensive and accurate surveys to ascertain both native and pest populations in areas currently regarded as “inaccessible”, in order to justify, or exclude, any possible recommencement or continuation of the aerial application of 1080, or its alternatives, in these areas.

4. Ensure that all pest control activities are optimised around turning adversity into opportunity, by maximising the economic potential of pest animals through the harvesting of fur and meat, and the provision of both regional employment, and export earnings.

“1080 has been spread all across this country for nearly 60 years, yet we still have the problems it is meant to have solved. Clearly it isn’t working, clearly it is causing serious harm to our native species, our people, our ecosystem, our environment, and

our international reputation, and clearly something else has to be done. No other Party seems to be able to understand that. New Zealand First does,” said Winston Peters.

However Laurie Collins sounded a note of caution pointing to phrases such as “soon as is possible, and doing so without compromising our pest control requirements.” He said 1080 should be closed down immediately as it was doing irreparable harm to the ecosystem as well as needlessly wasting public money. The reference to “pest control requirements” gave some credibility to DOC and OSPRI’s rhetoric.

“DOC and OSPRI have based their policies and 1080 drops on myths,” he said.

He pointed to NZ being bovine TB free under the international guideline of 0.2% whereas NZ had for at least a decade been well under that yardstick.

In addition contrary to DOC propaganda, possums as browsers were not harming the bush as birds and insects had browsed it for millions of years.

“Landcare Research told them that in 1994 at a Possum Pest workshop but Doc ignored it,” he said.

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A New York attorney representing a wealthy art collector called his client.

“I have some good news, and I have some bad news.”

The art collector replied, “I’ve had an awful day. Give me the good news first.”

The lawyer said, “Well, I met with your wife today, and she informed me that she just invested $5,000 in two pictures that she thinks will bring a minimum of $15 million to $20 million, and I think she could be right.”

Saul replied enthusiastically, “Well done! My wife is a brilliant businesswoman! You’ve just made my day.

Now I know I can handle the bad news. What is it?”

The lawyer replied, “The pictures are of you and your secretary.”

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Safer boating with Blulink VHF Marine radios are an important which effects the distance that conpart of any Kiwi boaties safety plan. versations can be carried/heard over.

As Coastguard & various other From 2.5 watts through 5 to Government agencies push for now 6 watt models available those people heading on the – some with GPS positioning. water to always have an alter- As some boaties say – ‘there is native to our trusty cell phone. no substitute for horse power’ Various Coastguard groups around when getting the signal out the country provide listening/ in an emergency situation. scanning coverage on the VHF Ma- Some of these handheld rarine channels for both Sea & Lake dios also have cig lead chargareas in order to offer the sup- ing in the event of the radio runport to those using Ships/Boats/ ning out of power while out.

Yachts/Jet skis/Canoes/kayaks etc. In-boat radios (normally 25 From 1st October last year, many watts transmit power) rely on Coastguard information and Weath- the boats battery power to er channel numbers changed. push the signal out further.

This re-classification was done in or- This transmit distance is very deder to align to the new 4 digit chan- pendent on the aerial that is being nel number system that is being used to push the signal out, as most introduced worldwide progressively. small boats are close to the water In future we will have to add 20 line – as opposed to Ships & Launchbefore our standard 2 numbers. es that are higher off the water line.

However – Channel 16 remains Aerials should be checked reguas the Marine Distress Channel. larly

& some form of protecA wide range of different tion sprayed over the connecVHF Marine models are avail- tions/plugs to prevent corrosion. able in NZ – including both hand- Suggest make this part of your regular held & in-boat/base models; seasonal checks as it is often too late The major difference between the to find out when out on the water!! various handheld models – (bat- Many boaties have a combination of tery powered – which need charg- in-boat & handheld radios to keep ing regularly), is the transmit power in touch when they are in a ‘ship to

shore’ situation plus checking the weather forecast on the handheld before heading out on the water.

A number of new radios on the NZ market also have the DSC – (Digital Selective Calling) button for emergency use (that is not yet monitored in NZ).

Let’s hope that this international system is soon adopted & monitored in NZ??

These VHF Marine radios are on totally different channels to the Land Based UHF or AM CB models.

While many people take them out around or on the water – they won’t be able to contact Coastguard in the event of an emergency at sea/on the lake.

It is important to understand the differences & also to liaise with your buddies prior to going out as to what type of radios that they are using if you plan to be in touch with each other.

The main focus is for safe & happy boating around this great country of ours.

Helpful websites for reference; - coastguard.co.nz - to find out the channels used in your local area. maritimenz.govt.nz to find out more about the VHF Marine channel changes

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Waihi Beach’s new rescue boat

Coastguard Waihi Beach’s new vessel AVOCO Rescue on the water. Photo credit – Jamie Troughton Dscribe Media

Coastguard Waihi Beach have officially welcome its newest vessel, the $197,000 purpose-built AVOCO Rescue, to the fleet.

The purpose-built 5.8m rescue vessel is a result of a partnership between AVOCO, TECT, The Lion Foundation, First Sovereign Trust, Valder Ohinemuri Trust and the Western Bay of Plenty Coastguard unit, has been out on the water already this summer are still allowed to take them which AVOCO have pledged an anmakes the whole process pretty hypo- nual sponsorship contribution of

$20,000 for collecting toheroa Fisheries officers are appealing to the public to ensure they’re up to speed with the rules around collecting toheroa, now that the rare shellfish are making a comeback to 90 Mile Beach (Northland).

MPI spokesman, Steve Rudsdale, says the beach has been empty of toheroa for many years and it is great to see juvenile toheroa making a comeback and beginning to recover.

However, he says their survival will be threatened if people don’t leave them alone.

“There is a ban on collecting these shellfish for a very good reason.

“The toheroa fishery was closed across the country in 1982 after a massive reduction in numbers.

“Their existence remains fragile and they cannot be disturbed.

Yet Maori under customary permit

critical as Maori are the primary takers.

Mr Rudsdale says toheroa have a major cultural significance as well and it would be a great pity to see their recovery fail because of people’s greed or the fact that people are unaware of the rules.

‘The only exception to collecting toheroa is a customary fishing permit.”

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$20,000 for three years which will go towards Coastguard’s yearly operational costs as well as the running costs of AVOCO Rescue.

“External funding is paramount to our success.

The $197,000 vessel is a 5.8m Naiad designed RHIB (rigid hull inflatable boat), powered by twin 115hp Yamaha outboards.

It was commissioned to replace Search Two, a 5.5m long vessel, which since being launched in 2003 clocked up more than 1000 hours

on the water, and joins Coastguard’s primary vessel Gallagher Rescue, a 9.5m Naiad powered by twin 250hp Yamaha four stroke outboards.

The fleet expansion means Coastguard now has the capability to cover two completely different areas, with Gallagher Rescue overseeing the Bowentown Bar, one of the most notorious in New Zealand, and AVOCO Rescue covering the channels and shallow areas of the Northern Tauranga Harbour.

Kontiki Transport System

The Kontiki Transport System came about through a need for something that would go down narrow tracks and climb reasonable

slopes and stairs to enable the gear to get onto the beach in one go.

The design ethos was also that everything was a one per-

son operation, enabling all the gear to be transported without all the lugging of gear.

As you can see from the photo it is basically wheelbarrow style, with a very large ATV wheel, which is driven by its own electric motor. It has three speeds. Easy to steer and will climb steep rises and slopes.

Construction is welded aluminium pipe. All bearings are nylon and electrics are sealed. Unit is fully hose down-able. It has the Winch Battery for power source so no extra batteries are needed. However you may need a larger one on the winch to cope if travelling longer distances.

The Winch stays on the Mowog when fishing, which gives you an ideal platform for getting the traces on at full torpedo speed.

National Party dictatorship a worrying trend The Government’s announcement that decision-making regarding the use of 1080 is to be centralised is a slap in the face for regional New Zealand.

Most kiwis support the goal of making New Zealand predator-free, but the decision to centralise 1080 decisionmaking strongly suggests the government no longer trusts Regional Councils to make the “right” decisions.

The best way to ruin the predatorfree New Zealand goal is to shut local communities out of any involvement in attaining it, and this announcement is a pretty good step on the way to doing just that!

But the most worrying aspect is that it forms part of an emerging pattern to shut local communities and

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local government out of environmental decisions that affect them.

And you just need to look at the state of our rivers, streams, the inshore fishery.

The government just do not care about the state of our nations environments.

To wantonly dump tons of 1080 on our tourism industry is direct sabotage of the environment. And they can do it without fear of prosecution as even the Governor Generals office refuse to accept letters of complaint.

The Government’s planned changes to the Resource Management Act already shift power away from the local communities to the Minister, and this decision is just one more step in that process.

All New Zealanders supported our

clean, green natural environment, however this is changing dramatically as councils fail to clean up their act and allow leaching to continue with more and more consents to increase intensified dairying and extract water from almost dry rivers.

This is where the damage is being done – in the Council chamber. So maybe the government have it right.

The government is sending them a clear signal, as the 1080 decision does, that they are no longer to be trusted to act responsibly towards our environment so it is probably true but far from helpful, and likely to create a backlash that could thwart the achievement of the overall goal..

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Harsh criticism of MSC Twenty years ago the WWF, helped found the MSC but has now identified a conflict of interest in MSC’s scheme, which charges a licensing fee of 0.5 percent of wholesale value to companies that use its logo to identify their products as originating from an MSC-certified fishery.

A leaked report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) describes “troubling, systemic flaws” within the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification scheme, casting doubt on the integrity of a programme trusted by millions of seafood consumers around the world to identify fisheries that are sustainable and well-managed.

Evidence is mounting that this creates a conflict with MSC’s role as an independent and impartial standard-setting body.

With more than 23,000 products using the MSC ecolabel on sale to consumers in nearly 100 countries, revenue from licensing fees to industry on those products amounted to US14 million in revenue in the last fiscal year – approximately 73 percent of the organization’s total income.

MSC has aggressively pursued global scale growth” and in recent years “has begun to reap very large sums from the fishing industry. MSC has also used “questionable practices” that have weakened rules meant to prevent overfishing, potentially making it easier for unsustainable fisheries to gain certification.

WWF says that MSC has no policy to assess how ‘green’ the fishing fleet actually is. MSC has routinely ‘certified’ fisheries as ‘sustainable’ whose fleet and shore-side infrastructure and operations are still rooted in ‘High-Carbon Practices’.

WWF calls into question “objectivity” when licensing a fishery means more revenue to MSC. Three peer-reviewed academic articles

critical of MSC are available on our website Fishingoutdoors.org/ - Bush 2013 - The devils triangle of MSC certification - Christian et al 2013 - A review of formal objections to MSC certification Goyert Sagarin Annala 2010 - The promise and pitfalls of MSC certification Extracts from the Christian et al 2013 paper say it all: “Despite high costs and difficult procedures, conservation organizations and other groups have filed and paid for 19 formal objections to MSC fisheries certifications. Only one objection has been upheld such that the fishery was not certified.”

“An analysis of the formal objections indicates that the MSC’s principles for sustainable fishing are too lenient and discretionary, and allow for overly generous interpretation by third-party certifiers and adjudicators, which means that the MSC label may be misleading both consumers and conservation funders. The weaknesses in MSC standards that allow controversial fisheries to be certified are not communicated to consumers.”

“MSC markets its seafood as ‘‘the best environmental choice.’’ Given existing concerns, these statements could mislead consumers about the sustainability and environmental friendliness of many MSC-certified products.

“This is unsurprising as all incentives point toward certification, which has led the MSC to write and interpret its principles of sustainability in an intentionally ambiguous way (e.g., ‘‘respect for laws’’) and has led third-party certifiers to generously interpret those principles, as well as generously assign high scores. As a result, and contrary to MSC claims, MSC-certified fisheries are not all sustainable, and certified fisheries

are also not necessarily improving.”

“The question remains whether the MSC will overcome these problems, or if seafood ecolabeling will be, in the end, characterized as ‘bluewashing’.”

“The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has continued to strengthen its position in the market based on its credibility as a transparent, accountable and science-based third party certification scheme. However, the consolidation of MSC’s credibility risks being undermined by the poor representation of developing world fisheries and concerns that the scheme provides little incentive for continual improvement for fisheries once certified.”

The paper argues that the challenge of maintaining credibility while increasing access and fisheries improvement constitutes a ‘devils triangle’. The ‘devils triangle’ of MSC certification: Balancing credibility, accessibility and continuous improvement.

All this raises the question of what then is the strategy of MSC? Strategically from the fishermen’s perspective it’s not very smart allowing MSC to effectively become the gatekeeper to market access.

Enviably it will lead to MSC controlling who goes to market, what they go with and at what cost. Having an organization control ones value chain is not a smart thing and that is to say nothing of the cost they add to it. Fonterra learned this lesson in China - the hard way from the melamine debacle.

Financial is not the only conflict of interest. Surely, having industry on the board of MSC is a more serious conflict, https://www.msc.org/aboutus/governance/structure/board-oftrustees/whos-on-the-msc-board

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Commercial Fishers in full Panic Mode Recreational fishers are now faced with commercial fishers in full panic mode. MPI have been caught with their pants down again and are now introducing their monitoring cameras to the entire inshore commercial fleet.

MPI must have told the commercial fishers they intend to enforce the QMS rules using footage from the on-board cameras. This has caused outright panic and admissions from commercial fishers that they cannot fish legally under the QMS and parts of the system will need to be changed if they are going to stay in business.

One commercial Fisher said that he had no control over what his trawl net caught and he found as many as thirty different species in a haul.

The ocean is like a big box of chocolates, and when you bulk harvest by the ton with such an indiscriminate method you don’t know what you actually have until is on your deck, even Forest Gump knew that.

The truth about the QMS is now being told by the commercial fishers who have been working in it since

it was introduced thirty years ago.

It is now clear that the QMS was developed for the quota holders to have ownership of the fishery and as a PR exercise and marketing tool for those selling fish overseas.

Sanford and Moana NZ fishing companies have pulled their socks up and say they have stopped sending their fishers to sea with a shopping list. These two companies also plan to take steps to reduce Maui Dolphin deaths on the west coast eventually.

By recognizing that the blue water gill net fishers have had an impact on the Maui they have taken steps to catch or receive fish only caught on a long line in the area.

Sanford and Moana Fisheries could well be the only NZ fishing companies with the environmental green tick of sustainability that consumers are now asking for pre-purchase of seafood.

Although these forward-thinking companies have recognized the changing public and consumer reactions around seafood harvesting and the by-catch issues they still hold out hope of being able to bulk

harvest from the inshore fishery.

If these companies and MPI listen to these whinging commercial fishers, they would realise that no fishing management system will prevent the capture of unwanted fish in the inshore fishery by any trawl/ seine or blue water gillnet method.

Furthermore, the NZ public will no longer accept the sight of any trawl type vessel that they see in the inshore fishery as a kiwi bloke providing them with fish for fish and chips. Rather, they see it as it is, a destructive, wasteful method of fishing for the export market.

MPI treated the NZ people’s holiday seafood as an export commodity, and they will not be forgiven for it. The next poor soul that inherits MPI fishery from Nathan Guy must bring back the stand alone Ministry of Fisheries with all new faces.

This new Ministry must be independent and focused only on the true sustainability of the fishery. As the fishery management stands, we do not have a shared fishery. We have an export fishery with a few left over for the locals.

Overfishing and fish dumping The winds of change are blowing through the fishing industry.

And hopefully through the MPI with the coming elections. The MPI is so rotten it is well overdue for a complete makeover.

The Future of Our Fisheries review while under way, makes a complete mockery of the democratic process when the MPI employ scientists to blatantly lie.

When the Operation Truck, Trios and Turnip reports are released to the world the public and valuable overseas markets will be alarmed at the depth of corruption in the

MPI, fishing companies and that our fishers are and never have played by the rules set down in the quota management system around practices such as fish dumping.

Illegal fish dumping happens before a boat heads back to land; it might be because the fisher has caught more than their quota allows them, or they might want to get rid of fish that are less valuable because of size, age or other criteria.

Justifying the waste by saying that many of the fish being thrown overboard are already dead or quickly die, and shows how the practice

adds to the depletion of fish stocks.

According to Minister for Primary Industries Nathan Guy, the new camera surveillance system would be a game changer. However given his track record he cannot be believed.

“Fishermen have only ever brought home fish which they are going to be paid for ... and you could have a species which doesn’t have a minimum legal size and could be the size of a small ballpoint pen and legally that should be landed.

It was never landed prior to the quota system and in most cases that doesn’t come home today.”

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Fishing Industry really, really good at lying

In the past three decades the dolphins’ numbers have plummeted as thousands upon thousands drowned after getting caught in gill nets and towed trawl nets used by fishermen. Photo courtesy of DoC.

Biologists Liz Slooten and Steve Dawson crisscross southern New Zealand’s scenic Akaroa Bay looking for the world’s smallest dolphin.

Hector’s dolphins, unique to New Zealand’s shallow coastal waters, explains Slooten. Like Dawson, she is a professor at the University of Otago, in Dunedin, near the southern tip of New Zealand. The couple has been studying these dolphins for the past 32 years, during which they have seen their numbers plummet as thousands upon thousands drowned after getting caught in gill nets and towed trawl nets used by fishermen. Though their use is legal, these kinds of nets trap and kill, in addition to marine mammals and turtles, many more fish than the fishermen can sell.

“We’ve seen the species fragmenting into smaller and smaller isolated populations,” says Slooten.

One of these, a subspecies called Maui’s dolphin that’s been separated from the rest for 16,000 years, has only 50 to 60 adults thinly spread over 400 miles off the western coast of the North Island, down from 2,000 individuals in 1970. It has become the world’s rarest dolphin. “It’s heart breaking because it’s so easily avoidable,” Slooten says. The rest of the population, a slightly larger sub-species known as Hector’s dolphins, has fallen from a probable 50,000 to an estimated 10,000.

Since 2012, the International Whaling Commission, along with IUCN, dozens of nonprofits and the country’s opposition parties has been calling on the New Zealand government to ban all nets in the Maui’s habitat. But so far, the New Zealand government has only banned nets in a tiny fraction of the Maui dolphins’ habitats.

But ending net fishing in the Maui dolphin’s habitat would financially impact the main player there, Sanford Ltd. The company is the country’s biggest and oldest fishing concern, and in the Maui dolphin zone, it owns 60 percent of the quota for snapper, the most valuable catch, taken mostly by bottom trawlers. Sanford’s main shareholder and former chairman, Peter Goodfellow, is president of the conservative National Party, which has been in power for eight years.

“You have to wonder if the government would do the right thing if the links between Sanford and the party weren’t so close,” says Slooten, the biologist.

Nathan Guy Primary Industries Minister insists that existing protection measures, which ban all nets in 5 percent of the Maui’s habitat and gill nets in another 14 percent, are adequate. His reluctance to extend the ban to the entire habitat comes as no surprise to academics.

The country’s fisheries management structure is built on the neoliberal belief that a resource will be better managed by its owners than by government regulators.

The government gave fishermen quotas — the right to fish a certain amount of a certain fish in a certain place — for the species they were already fishing.

But it allowed the quota owners to hire other people to fish their quota and to sell them to anyone.

The result is that today, most quotas are owned by large corporations that make a profit simply by hiring independent fishermen to catch their quotas and paying them less than the value of the fish they bring in. The system encourages wastefulness and profits corporations at the expense of consumers and independent fishermen.

Sanford’s CEO, Volker Kuntzcsh, the company, which owns just under a quarter of the whole country’s fishing quotas, was asked why don’t they simply stop fishing with nets in the dolphin’s habitat and justify its name, “The Home of Sustainable Seafood.”

“There’s quite a lot of fish coming out of that area,” he replies.

“Our board wouldn’t be happy” if the existing fishing stopped.

But, he adds, “We do suffer from a bad reputation here,” and … “we want to prove that we’re really serious” about saving the Maui dolphin.

So instead, he explains, Sanford has pledged to stop trawling by 2022 and to continue trawling with its vessels in the Maui habitat until then. The company, which also buys net-caught fish from five vessels in the Maui dolphin habitat, will stop doing so starting in March. It will also no longer purchase fish caught by gillnets in the Maui dolphin habitat. So they could be sold elsewhere and won’t necessarily change anything.

Until last year, criticism of New Zealand’s fisheries industry was muted by the widespread perception that it lived up to the “world-leading” and “clean and green” image vigorously promoted by the government. Indeed, a 2009 study based on the official catch statistics of 53 countries ranked New Zealand first in sustainability. “On paper, they looked great,” said Daniel Pauly of the University of British Columbia, a coauthor of that study. “They scored better than anyone on the key stuff, like respecting their catch quotas.”

Quotas, based on population estimates often derived solely from catch reports, are limits set by scientists to prevent overfishing, which reduces fish populations and lowers the annual yield of catchable fish.

Pauly, who is the world’s most quoted fisheries scientist, also directed a global survey to determine just how accurate were those national

catch statistics, which are curated by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome and form the bedrock of international fisheries policy. The survey, published in January 2016, found that the global seafood catch from 1950 to 2010 was a third higher than what countries had reported to the FAO. But for the New Zealand chapter of the study, published in May 2016, a team of researchers from the universities of Auckland, Oxford, and British Columbia uncovered a level of organized deceit that Pauly says is unparalleled: Over 60 years, the average real catch was an eye-popping 2.7 times bigger than what was reported (Since 1986, the catch was 2.1 times the amount reported, or double). Currently, the estimate is that about a third of the catch in New Zealand is unreported. Most of the hidden part comes from fully-licensed commercial vessels illegally discarding 38 percent of their catch (that’s more than four times the global discard average), and then systematically filing false catch reports while government regulators looked the other way, the report found.

in the Maui’s habitat had observers. “There are no incentives for the fishermen to report these deaths and lots not to, so it’s not surprising very few are reported,” Slooten says.

Glenn Simmons, the lead author of the New Zealand catch study on which Pauly is also co-author, says that the pressure to discard less valuable fish was baked into quotabased fisheries model adopted by the industry and its regulators in 1986. In theory, the quota owner would choose the most profitable — therefore efficient — way to fish a given stock of fish. In practice, trawling and gillnetting, which bring in the most fish at the least cost, are indiscriminate; the trawler pulls a sock-like net over the bottom, where most fish are found.

Whatever species a fisherman has a quota for, he still would end up with many fish that were either of low value or for which he had no quota, Simmons explained.

One such report described by Simmons and obtained and released by a local television journalist last year caused a sensation because it contained video footage of fish being dumped. The report describes Operation Achilles, undertaken in 2012, in which officials installed cameras on six trawlers “Turns out that what they as a pilot project to see how many were really, really good at is dolphins they caught. The footlying,” Pauly says. age showed that one vessel killed two Hector’s dolphins on the same But what the New Zealanders did day. The report noted the skipper is in a class of its own, not only waited four days to report the first by the sheer size of their discards dolphin death and didn’t report but because for decades they the second one at all, which is illewent to fishing conference say- gal. The footage also showed that ing their quota system was the all but one of the six vessels’ crews best in the world — and most filmed were discarding fish with people believed them, of course.” abandon, which is punishable by Slooten, the dolphin biologist, says a NZ$250,000 (US$175,000) fine. under-reporting of dolphin killings “We have never had such compelis even worse, on the order of 20 ling evidence to prove what we have to 1. Between 2000 and 2006, for known for a long time,” wrote Mark instance, the National Institute of Sanders, the investigator who wrote Water and Atmosphere estimated the Achilles report. He urged his suthe mortality of Maui and Hec- periors to prosecute the crews. Were tor’s dolphins at between 770 and the video to be released, which it 1050 a year. Yet the NZ govern- eventually was, he wrote, “The sight ment informed the whaling com- of large, perfectly good fish being mission that only 48 dolphins were systematically discarded… could… reported to have died in nets. A stir up an emotive backlash not only ministry document shows that from the NZ public but from interonly 2 percent of the fishing days national quarters as well.” Not fix-

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were a “systemic failure of the current system.” But if the fishermen were forced to follow the law, “We would probably put half the inshore fishing fleet out of business overnight.”

Turner is far from the first official to sound A 2016 survey found that licensed fishing vessels in New the alarm. In 2008, Fisheries Operations Zealand were illegally discarding 38 percent of their catch (more than four times the global discard average), and then Manager Jonathan Peacey wrote that systematically filing false catch reports while government the quota system has regulators looked the other way. Photo courtesy of Liz created a situation Slooten. where “dumping… ing the problem, he added, “could is common in many see a large international company New Zealand fisheries.” He urged (like) McDonald’s refusing to buy a “comprehensive review” that our ‘non-green-image’ fish or hav- would lead to major changes, but ing imports cancelled because of no such review was those pressures.” McDonald’s is a undertaken by the major buyer of New Zealand fish. National Party adThe skippers of all five trawl- ministration, which ers got off with a warning, came into power a which caused considerable in- few months later. dignation in the press and In an unpublished in the liberal opposition. 2008 report obin a 2014 e-mail released by Heron, tained by Earth IsDave Turner, the director of fisher- land Journal, Shaun ies, wrote to Gallacher, his boss at Driscoll, at the time the time, that excessive discards the fisheries minis-

try’s manager for investigations, noted that “an overbearing and over-powerful fishing industry” had created a system that “virtually guarantees illegal fishing practices.”

“The quota system,” writes Fiona McCormack, an anthropologist at the University of Waikato, in Hamilton, New Zealand, “concentrates fishing power in the hands of industry, which allows it to capture its government regulators and to squeeze the fishers so much that they are forced to discard. The only sustainability it achieved is the sustainability of the profits of the quota holders.”

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that Icelandic ITQ is attached to vessel and/or municipality/community, whereas New Zealand ITQs are held by quota owners most of whom don’t go fishing. Sounds like Iceland’s system is what NZ needs which explains why Pankhurst is trashing it.

He also questions whether the Icelanders are up to speed with New Zealand in areas such as net technology, mammal and seabird bycatch mitigation, and marketing multiple species across numerous markets. Utter rubbish not even based on alternative facts. Iceland have been innovating trawl nets for hundreds of years to be selective.

As for marketing, a simple comparison of their industry’s profitability versus NZ shows that Iceland out performs NZ by a country mile. Mostly due to a 100% discard ban leading to 99% of the fish and by-catch being utilised.

At the end of the day, Pankhurst seems to be struggling to understand how can a small fishing nation of 320,000 people, have a better fisheries management system than NZ? Maybe because they are just much smarter and don’t hide or lie about what they do.

An iwi leader says: I went to Iceland in 2013 and my understanding of the differences were: Use it or lose it – the quota is tied to the boat - no Queen Street fishermen owning quota and pretending they don’t know what happens at sea; Quota has to be bid for to use over a term; it is not a gift to the balance sheet in perpetuity; A portion set aside for small scale community/town based fishermen; Total transparency - vessel position/ catch in real time, catches reported every 6 hours, sale prices, bycatch

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Strong enforcement - for any cheats, one strike they’re out; Value add cooling/processing decades ahead of NZ – almost no waste, everything turned into serious money.

Research/stock assessments free from political and industry interference.

Iceland clearly shows that ITQ property rights in perpetuity are not needed to have a high performing responsible industry. Seems that Seafood NZ is attempting to discredit any system which shows how fraudulent and badly managed the NZ QMS system is.

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NZFIRST TABLES WATER ROYALTY BILL New Zealand First today tabled an amendment to the Crown Minerals Act that would collect royalties on drinking water exports.

“The government refused leave for the bill to be introduced because they can’t seem to make their minds up on charging for drinking water exports,” says Denis O’Rourke, New Zealand First Environment Spokesperson.

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Making a lie appear truthful The Seafood NZ, Friday Update Captain’s Blog on 17 March 2017 wrote ‘Iceland is often lauded as having a superior fisheries management model to that of this country. A recreational group cited it glowingly in its submission to the current review of the Fisheries Act,’ created so much mirth in the office we had to all knock off early and go down to the local pub. The MPI leave us incredulous but these guys are off the planet.

One certainly wonders where they get their information from, as the rubbish they write is beyond belief.

Pankhurst is saying that Iceland’s fisheries management is inferior to NZ’s. He uses the so-called facts that “Iceland has virtually no marine recreational fishery, or customary fishery, has far fewer species than New Zealand and thus far less bycatch, and its fishing industry is heavily subsidised”.

The truth is they have a vibrant recreational sector fished by the descendants of the Vikings and through selective trawl innovations reduce by-catch and are not subsidized. In reality, a key issue for their commercial industry is increasing resource taxes, because unlike NZ they utilize 99% of the fish, leading to high levels of profitability, the likes of which NZ do not enjoy by a country mile.

Hence, government want a bigger share of their growing spoils.

According to Pankhurst, Stokes says Iceland’s ITQ system is not the model for NZ. He suggests this is because Iceland ITQ holders pay a resource rental tax, have less secure property rights with controls firmly in the hands of government. A major difference between the countries is

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Ministry spin defies Crayfish survey While the Ministry for Primary Industries give assurances that the crayfish fishery is doing well, a landmark survey of people who pot and dive for crayfish on the northeast coast between Pakiri and East Cape shows that it is not so.

Of the 822 survey respondents more than three quarters (78.6%) described the size and availability of crayfish in this popular fishery as 1 or 2 out of 7.

Six per cent rated it as average, and only 2.2% described the fishery as above average.

83% supported or strongly supported a seasonal closure to all harvest to help the crayfish recover. Only 7% opposed or strongly opposed the move.

Some were willing to go even further, with 62% supporting or strongly supporting a total clo-

“It’s a state control grab and a state run empire,” he said.

Bill Benfield co-chairman of the sure of the fishery for a fixed time, The purpose of the Fisheries Act is Council of Outdoor Recreation Aswith a managed reintroduction of to maintain the potential of fisher- sociations said the Minister’s “power fishing once the fishery reopens. ies resources to meet the reason- grab” was taking democratic rights Our fisheries are not in good shape ably foreseeable needs of future and they’re being mismanaged generations, yet the lack of crayfish by the Ministry that is supposed in this once-abundant fishery is to oversee the future viability of not being addressed by the Minisour precious marine resources. try. MPI talks of industry voluntarRecreational divers have few ily reducing its catch by 25%. The chances to navigate their way truth is that commercial fishers The concept of dry stack marinas through these pots and when can’t take that many crayfish and has been around for over two decthey do, they struggle to find haven’t been able to for some time. ades but with recent land values a legal sized crayfish to take The Ministry for Primary Industries is on the increase it is becoming a home for that special occasion. undertaking a review of CRA 2 dur- more viable option for boat owners.

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MWM features a fully security monitored premise with 26 cameras and swipe entry; boat owners can rest assured that their boat is secure. not require resource consent. where the public voted against Boats are stacked using the latest However Laurie Collins said pub- the Establishment, its corruption in marina forklift technology by lic opposition to 1080 was grow- and ignoring of the voting public. Wiggins with lift heights of up to ing quickly as the public became “It’s not just the USA. Countries are 17m and 11 metric tons in weight. aware through anti-1080 advocates getting governments they don’t that the poison, originally devel- want because of the dictatorial beoped as an insecticide was killing haviour of governments they had.” invertebrates, birds and animals. Government’s 1080 programme The public were realising 1080 ignored public land was getinflicted a long, slow death over ting an ecosystem poison indis- All species of wild seafood will colone or two days and even longer. criminately administered to it. lapse within 50 years, according to “No wonder many countries “New Zealand is spending hun- a 2006 study by an international ban 1080,” added Laurie Collins. dreds of millions of dollars in team of ecologists and economists.

He said the move by government chemical destruction of our pub- Writing in the journal Science, the to “centralise” 1080 and brodifa- lic lands and wilderness,” he said. researchers concluded that the loss coum use reflected the third term Referring to his reference of cor- of marine biodiversity worldwide government’s increasing arrogance ruption, Laurie Collins said gov- is profoundly reducing the ocean’s and neglect of public opinion. ernment had now full control of ability to produce seafood, resist disIt would be just a matter of time 1080 through its State Owned En- eases, filter pollutants and rebound - perhaps this year’s election - terprise company that imported from stresses, such as climate change before New Zealand would end and processed the toxin into green and overfishing. Sound familiar? up with a “Trump-like situation” dyed pellets for aerial distribution. “Unless we fundamentally change

A national recreational hunting forum suspects government removing power from local government over 1080 use to be a reaction to growing public concern over the widespread use of the poison.

“Opposition to 1080 is growing so quickly that it represents a government move to quell the public’s concerns,” said Sporting Hunters Outdoor Trust convenor Laurie Collins of the West Coast.

Environment Minister Nick Smith recently announced that government’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would now administer 1080 and brodifacoum rather than regional councils. He said “centralising” the use of 1080 and other pesticides was expected to save $11 million over the next 20 years. Operations of poisons would

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the way we manage all the ocean species together as working ecosystems, then this century is the last century of wild seafood,” said study co-author Stephen Palumbi, professor of biological sciences at Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station.

Palumbi and Stanford colleague Fiorenza Micheli, assistant professor of biological sciences at Hopkins, are two of 14 co-authors of the Science study, the first major analysis of all existing datasets—historical, experimental, fisheries and observational—on ocean species and ecosystems.

Based on current global trends, the authors predicted that every species of wild-caught seafood—from tuna to sardines—will collapse by the year 2050. “Collapse” was defined as a 90 percent depletion of the species’ baseline abundance.

The impacts of species loss go beyond declines in seafood, the authors said, noting that human health risks also emerge as depleted coastal ecosystems become vulnerable to invasive species, disease out-

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“The ocean is a great recycler,” Palumbi said. “It takes sewage and recycles it into nutrients, it scrubs toxins out of the water and it produces food and turns carbon dioxide into food and oxygen.” But to provide these services, he added, the ocean needs all of its working parts—the millions of plant and animal species that inhabit the sea.

Accelerating declines The research team analyzed 32 controlled experiments, observational studies from 48 marine protected areas and global catch data from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s database of all fish and invertebrates worldwide from 1950 to 2003. The scientists also looked at a 1,000-year time series for 12 coastal regions, drawing on data from archives, fishery records, sediment cores and archaeological sources.

The results revealed that every species lost causes a faster unravelling of the overall ecosystem. This progressive biodiversity loss not only impairs the ability of the ocean to feed a growing human population but also sabotages the stability of marine environments, the authors said. Conversely, the study found that every species recovered adds significantly to the ecosystems overall productivity and ability to withstand stresses.

According to the research team, species collapses are hastened by the decline in overall health of the ecosystem—fish rely on the clean water, prey populations and diverse habitats that are linked to higher diversity sys-

tems. This finding points to the need for marine resource managers to consider all species together rather than continuing with single-species management, the authors said.

Restoring populations One pressing question for managers is whether losses can be reversed, the authors said. If species have not been pushed too far down, recovery can be fast, they found, adding that there is also a point of no return where recovery is unlikely, as in the case of the northern Atlantic cod.

Examination of protected areas worldwide showed that restoration of biodiversity greatly increased productivity and made ecosystems 21 percent less susceptible to environmental and human-caused fluctuations on average—an indication that ocean ecosystems have a strong capacity to rebound.

“The data show us it’s not too late,” Worm said. “We can turn this around.

But less than 1 percent of the global ocean is effectively protected right now. We won’t see complete recovery in one year, but in many cases species come back more quickly than people anticipated—in three to five to 10 years. And where this has been done we see immediate economic benefits.”

The authors concluded that restoring marine biodiversity through an ecosystem-based management approach—including integrated fisheries management, pollution control, maintenance of essential habitats and creation of marine reserves—is essential to avoid serious threats to

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“This isn’t predicted to happen, this is happening now,” said co-author Nicola Beaumont, an ecological economist with the Plymouth Ma-

rine Laboratory. “If biodiversity continues to decline, the marine environment will not be able to sustain our way of life. Indeed, it may not be able to sustain our lives at all.”

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MPI done in the last 10 years. Nothing if crayfish and maui dolphins could talk. What the MPI has done is deny there are problems with their ‘nothing to see here’ spin. The hector dolphins killed during Operation Achilles would strongly disagree.

Adjustments to commercial fishing limits Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy has announced changes to commercial fishing limits for rock lobster (crayfish) and southern blue whiting in five areas as part of the annual fisheries sustainability review while completely ignoring cries from recreational fishers than the cray fisheries are severely depleted in CRA2.

The changes are: -Rock lobster fishery in the Gisborne region (called CRA3) will see a reduction in commercial catch limit of 23 tonnes.

-In the Wellington and Hawkes Bay region (called CRA4) there will be a reduction in commercial catch limit of 108 tonnes.

-The CRA7 (Otago) rock lobster fishery will see a rise in the commercial catch limit by 15 tonnes.

All recreational and customary allowances in these fisheries will remain the same.

“The changes in rock lobster limits comes after feedback from tangata whenua and other fishery interests, and final advice from the National Rock

Lobster Management Group (NRLMG) on a range of options for these important shared fisheries,” says Mr Guy. “For CRA3, the latest scientific research shows that biomass has decreased but remains above the agreed sustainability level. To ensure this remains the case a reduction in commercial catch will ensure that the fishery remains sustainable in the long term for the benefit of all fishers.

“In CRA4 a recent scientific study identified that the fishery was below the agreed target level and so proposals were consulted on to reduce commercial catch to an appropriate level.

“For CRA7 the latest information indicated no sustainability concerns and so I’m confident an increase in commercial catch of 15 tonnes can easily be sustained.

“These decisions are based on the best possible scientific information and show the effectiveness of the Quota Management System (QMS). It is flexible and responsive to change, and where a stock

such as CRA4 is below expected levels then MPI acts to protect it.

“Regular monitoring and amendments to catch limits are key parts of our fisheries management system. They are informed by science and ensure we have a flexible and responsive system.”

For southern blue whiting around New Zealand (SBW 1) the commercial catch limit will be increased by 90 tonnes and for SBW 6B – known as the Bounty Platform – the commercial catch limit will be reduced by 563 tonnes (from 2940 to 2377 tonnes).

As these are both deepwater fisheries there are no allowances for customary or recreational fishing.

“SBW1 has had a nominal catch limit in place since it was introduced into the QMS in 1999. This increase announced today is based on current scientific information which better reflects available abundance. For SBW 6B, a key area of southern blue whiting catch, this change is in response to natural variations in the stock and will ensure the fishery remains sustainable.”

Month Long Fishing competition will be Fullon The Tairua-Pauanui Sports Fishing Club is holding a month long fishing competition sponsored by Fullon Fishing of Hamilton commencing from 6:30 am Saturday 29th April and lines out by 4 pm Saturday 27th May. The entry fee is $30.00 per angler and entry forms are available at the club rooms from 5:00 pm on Friday 28th April, Entries after that date must reg-

All of the Firth is fishing well although the Mussel farms on the Kaiaua side are still slow. Drifting out in the middle is very rewarding with plenty of work ups going on all around. Gurnard are still plentiful, but there aren’t many good size Kahawai around to put in your smoker. Up and down the coast reports are all good with the shore fisherman doing exceptional in some places. Te Kouma Wharf produced nineteen snapper in four hours and one young man; ‘Nathan’ (see photo) scored a 38.3lb Kingfish from Wilsons Bay the day after all that heavy rain fell. There are plenty of snapper right along the coast and with all of the baitfish available in the Firth they are going to be around a little bit longer yet. If you haven’t already noticed, baby squid which everyone loves to use as bait is longer available and hasn’t been for about eight months.

I have now been informed that arrow squid which is the larger one is now in short supply and the price has gone up by the wholesalers.

Because of this I will have to raise my price per kilo by $1.00. Despite some of the other baits going up in price I will keep mine as per norm.

There is a bit of a ‘Bait war’ going on amongst the main suppliers but rest assured I will keep you in the picture. I have mentioned before about the ‘Xtra Flexx’ rods that I have in my shop produced by Fladen. These are made from Basalt Volcanic Rock and are certainly proving their name as Xtra Flexx. I have put on my Facebook page, two videos of this rod in action with a Kingfish and a Snapper which where both caught

by Greg who has tested this rod out very well. Just go to (FB: Early Bird Bait & Tackle). For all you guys who drive past my shop when going up the coast, don’t be fooled by looks on the outside. It’s very much like the Tardis in Dr. Who, small on the outside, big on the inside. My business is still for sale if anyone wants it, although I am quite happy for it not to sell as I love it so much. If you want to see my accountants books, come and talk with me and discuss a price? I have just invested in more rods and reels and a good supply of darts for the enthusiast.

I am open from 5am every weekday and 4am at weekends as most people know and am late opening on Fridays (9pm) for anyone coming up the coast for the weekend. I intend to update my website soon but don’t have time at present.

Bare with me, and everything will happen as it should do. Until next time, take care and ‘Tight Lines’.

All fish must be weighed within 24 hours of capture.

Weigh masters will be available at the club between 4:30 pm and 5:30 pm each day to weigh fish and all fish must be weighed at the Tairua Pauanui Sports Fishing Club.

The Fishing area is the TPSFC fish grid.

The Final weigh in will be held between 4:00 pm and 5:00 pm on Saturday 27th May, with the prize giving at the club rooms on from 7:00pm.

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Early Bird Bait & Tackle Report with the water literally boiling with fish on the surface.

People I have spoke to haven’t seen anything like it before with bait being taken as it hits the surface of the water. Using the tiniest of ball or egg sinkers, they have been taking snapper of 16lb plus and going home after only half an hour.

The winds are mainly easterlies at the moment and despite breezes of 12klm the Firth has been like a mill pond. With concern to the state of the boat ramps after the terrible weather we had, I can confirm that Waikawau Boat Ramp has been dredged again and is clear of all debris. After the downpours it was silted so much that only three inches of water was flowing but now it’s back to normal.

With all boats being able to get For all you people out there who in and out with ease, you may still have never been fishing in their find floating logs out their in the lives, now is the time to take it up. Firth so do take it easy and have In just this past week, three indi- your buddies keep an eye open viduals have experienced ‘Full on’ for any obstacles. While the snapfishing and have now invested in per are in abundance, so to are the their own rods and reels etc. so Kingfish. Someone is always getting they can carry on with this excit- broken off by these ‘Locos’ and there ing sport. Obviously fishing is not are some very big ones around good every day but at the moment to test your skill and your gear. it could not really get any better. When it comes to catching them After the ten days of wind and tor- it could be difficult if the are on rential rain, the Firth took about their own. They become very wary three days for the cloudy water to to anything put in the water and dissipate. It has come to light that a will more than likely refuse whatlot of fish go off the feed but having ever you offer them. This is differdone this they are back in big num- ent when there are two or three of bers and big sizes. Reports from the them because they will get excited Mussel Farms are fantastic with eve- and compete for the prize. This is ryone: or at least nearly everyone is the time you need to throw a popgetting their limit in no time at all. per out or send down a high speed One report from three individuals jig to further excite them. One thing is 49 fish in 49 minutes. Having to I will say is pre-set your reel drag put back 40cm snapper is a sacri- otherwise the sheer power of the lege. Fishing around the working fish will destroy your gear or simMussel Barge has been amazing ply break you off within an instant.

ister at the club rooms in person prior to commencing fishing.

There will be prizes for top 5 Snapper, Kahawai and Trevally and an additional prize for closest to average weight for each species.

During the course of the competition you can weigh a maximum of three fish of each species but only the heaviest fish of each species counts towards a prize.

This competition is open to club members only.

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Mornings are cool, the trees are turning, I think we might have an early winter?.

The recent not so heavy rain here was perfect for the Tongariro; levels fluctuated from 38 – up and down to a max of 230 cumecs With it came the Browns the first photograph a 14lber plus.

Three of us fished a pool and landed more than 30 fish two of which were 9lb Browns, if you would like to see the evidence visit www.

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The upper river has fished okay generally a mixed bag of fish from very nice to everything in between.

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Last month I had suggested (I think) to keep watching this space, keep watching because it just keeps getting better, Lake and rivers holding beautifully conditioned fish.

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Didymo Dave IN THE BEGINNING.......!

I began doing CHECK CLEAN DRY advocacy in the summer of 2007 and at that stage the programme was designed to stop the transfer of Didymo around the South Island and into the North Island by changing people’s behaviour.

It didn’t take too long though for some of us involved to figure out that it needed to expanded.

For instance Hornwort is in Lake Taupo and Lake Rotoaira but NOT in Lake Otamangakau Hornwort is a bigger threat to Lake 0 than Didymo. Plus, Hornwort is NOT in the South Island so keeping it out of there was important too.

In addition Alligator weed and pest fish are in the lower Waikato River and that’s where we want them to stay so all this brought about the change in thinking from a Didymo focused programme to a freshwater pest programme. But despite widespread advertising, banners etc most people still think the primary aim of CHECK CLEAN DRY is stopping Didymo getting to the North Island and that is very frustrating.

The other change a few of us made was to think globally, outment that you voted to lead us, side of New Zealand. So rather they are heavily involved in eco- than wait till someone visiting terrorism and the destruction of our land, fishery and waterways. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

You know, it is almost unbelievable that in self-proclaimed ‘clean, green New Zealand,’ a huge lake A farmer and a family company have inhabited by untold native eels, a been convicted and fined a total of thriving population of brown trout $65,750 for unlawful discharges of and bountiful birdlife, like Lake dairy effluent on two Waikato farms.

Ellesmere along with its significant Ian Douglas Troughton and GT & river sources, should have been al- AB Limited were convicted and lowed to completely die in front of sentenced by Judge David Kirkpatour very eyes within less than a gen- rick in the Auckland District Court eration – and all to satisfy the crav- for offences under the Resource ings for freshwater to irrigate arid Management Act. The dischargland that was never meant to hold es occurred between December dairy cattle in the pursuit of the Al- 2015 and March 2016 at farms mighty Dollar and despite the envi- located at Patetonga and Turua. ronmental damage. The look at the The prosecution, brought by Waistate of mid Canterbury rivers, the kato Regional Council, followed National Party is a national disgrace. a complaint about effluent management practices on one of the farms in December 2015. A council inspection found that effluent had overflowed from a small sump flowing 130 metres across the paddock and into a farm drain that linked to the Piako River.

The farm had previously been inLOOKING FOR A spected in 2012 by the council and BOAT RAMP? Mr Troughton had been advised that the effluent storage was inadequate Check out our website and at high risk of overflowing. www.fishingoutdoors.org Council staff inspected another For New Zealand’s most property owned by Mr Troughton comprehensive in March 2016. A pipe was found to Boat Ramps Listings be discharging dairy effluent from an underpass directly into a paddock where it had formed a large pond. The effluent had also made its way to a farm drain that links to the Waihou River. Council staff gave direction to the farmer to clean up the effluent. However this was not done.

Stinky smelly filthy water is okay Nick (Ecoli) Smith thinks you won’t notice the extra poo they’re sneaking into our rivers and lakes.

Last month the Government announced their new “ambitious” freshwater plan for our rivers. A plan that, while it looks good as a headline, when you dig into the details, you’ll find is full of poo.

Rather than putting in place plans to improve the quality of our rivers and lakes, the Government has actually lowered water quality standards so that it looks like they’re doing something about the state of our rivers.

Under the old system, for a waterway to be considered swimmable, the acceptable level of E.coli was less than 260 per 100 mL of water.

Scientists use the amount of E.coli as an indicator of faecal contamination present in fresh water and therefore the health risk it poses.

Under the new system, the government considers a river swim-

mable when the level of E. coli is 540 per 100 mL increasing the risk of campylobacter infection and other pathogens. The Ministry of Health guidelines called this standard an “alert” value and rated it a ‘C’. Now the government gives it an ‘A’ and describes it as “excellent”.

The government are using underhanded PR tricks to make it look like they’re cleaning our rivers.

In reality, what they’ve done is lower water quality standards so that our rivers pose a greater risk of infection and can still be considered “swimmable”.

They think they can trick the New Zealand public. Instead, you can make this the tipping point. Together, we can send an audacious message that our government, and the public, won’t be able to ignore.

For those that voted the National Party in go and take a good look in the mirror. Is this the govern-

New Zealand arrived and then trying to find them and educate them let’s see if we can educate them about CHECK CLEAN DRY in their own home in their country.

This has worked really well and we did it through regular posts on websites. Ross and Pip Baker of Tongariro River Motels have a huge following and Ross’s daily reports are viewed worldwide. The same goes for Graham and Cathy Whyman who own Sporting Life in Turangi and post daily reports on their site. I’m staggered at the number of overseas fishermen I meet who have learnt about CHECK CLEAN DRY through either the TRM or Sporting Life daily report.

But it’s not just fishing, for example through doing wetsuit cleaning dips at events like lronman NZ we now have athletes around the world far more aware of freshwater pests globally. Lance Purdon and Jodie Barker compete each year in lronman NZ and before they leave their home in Canber-

ra they wash and dry their wetsuits.

Then Steffan Broock who is an lronman competitor liked a tee shirt I had on one year so I gave it to him and at the next corporate board meeting he attended in Portland, Oregon he wore it. The other members of the board, all in shirts n ties were a bit surprised when he showed up wearing a tee shirt with “REAL MEN KEEP THEIR TACKLE FREE OF WEEDS” on it!

So please, give us a hand. Adhere to the CHECK CLEAN DRY programme, think freshwater pests and think international.

Didymo signage sent by a fisherman with “Look what’s in Chile” attached.

Dairy effluent discharges result in large fines The council’s investigations manager Patrick Lynch said: “The inadequacy of the effluent management system on the first farm was clearly pointed out to the farmer some years ago but he elected to do nothing about it.

“It is disappointing that we have had to revert to prosecution to, hopefully, bring about positive behavioural change. We trust that the fines imposed here serve as a reminder to all farmers to have adequate storage for their dairy effluent and be vigilant with their management of their systems.”

I wasn’t questioning how many dairy farms were in the Waikato, and fully understand the enormity of this task. However once a non-compliant farmer IS identified the task is made 100% easier.

Part of the pollution problems we have is down to a few farmers that won’t act and carry out compliance requirements when advised and this gives all farmers a very bad name, when in fact it is a few that should where this title.

Fishing and Outdoors newspaper: The bigger issue here is that once the Council found that ‘Mr Troughton had been advised that the effluent storage was inadequate and at high risk of overflowing’ in 2012 is why did the Council not closely monitor it?

Why did it take 3-4 years and why did the Council wait

for and act on a complaint?

Waikato Regional Council: We were disappointed that guidance was given to Mr Troughton, as it is given to many farmers, and he elected not to act on it.

We trusted that he would act on the advice given to him.

There are approximately 4500 thousand dairy farms in the Waikato and we are simply not able to visit every farm on a regular basis. We are reliant on the eyes and ears of the community to make us aware of potential breaches so that we may respond accordingly, as occurred here.

You will note that it was a proactive inspection of the second farm that found the discharges there.

Fishing and Outdoors newspaper: In this case the non-compliant farmer was identified; he was given advice as the Council says. Then there is a time period of 3-4 years before Council acted on a complaint made by a member of the public!!

Really, so from what Council is saying they ignored the non-compliant farmer with no follow-up until a complaint was made by a member of the public. This is exactly where the problem lies. Council are not following up on non-compliant farmers.

This shows that Council need a major shakeup on how they deal with these issues. Why should good farmers get a bad name because of Council incompetence?

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Lower Waikato Trout Contest Irrigation companies killing salmon The normal 9 day October trout contest for the Waikato river will take place this year from October 7th to 15th.

Last year’s competition was a resounding success, especially as the high levels bought out the best in our anglers who adapted well to the conditions.

This year they want to add something different, a couple of smaller one day mini events to promote the fishery.

These are planned again in the school holidays for family participation, and they hope to show that the season for this river fishery is longer than you might think.

The first event is planned for

Saturday April 29th, and if that works well, the next one will be Saturday July 15th.

The organisers hope to get a snapshot of the trout season on the river, the April date is at the start (just before duck hunting season), and July can be a great time for large specimens to be caught.

The prize pool for each event will be about $800 of prizes, and the whole operation will be a stripped down version of our big event in October.

Fishing period: Dawn of 29th to 7 pm same day.

Fishing area: Same as normal comp - Waikato river only from below Karapiro dam to Waikato heads.

Weigh stations- Sweetmans Reel

Fishin’ in Huntly 10.30 to mid-day, Taupiri Tavern- 5 pm to 7 pm evening.

Categories - All in together, adults and juniors, no teams for this event.

Entry Fees - Anglers only pay if they present a fish to weigh on the day - $5 per fish for adults, $2 per fish for juniors under 17.

(Licence number and name of angler is to be recorded for F&G) Prizegiving - 8 pm onward at Taupiri Tavern, BBQ provided earlier.

Prize packages - $500 split between the heaviest 10 trout presented, $150 for a mystery weight trout (drawn at random on night), plus $150 in assorted spot prizes for juniors.

With a huge decline in salmon numbers anglers are blaming irrigation companies because fish screens which are supposed to stop the salmon getting sucked in to irrigation canals - did not work.

There is no requirement from Environment Canterbury (ECan) to make it work, and no incentive for farmers.

On the Rangitata River where there is science studies and a conservation order, complaints have been raised but nothing done.

Hoyes, Rainbow hen F/C 2.294kgs.

Junior section: 1st Brayden Hoyes, Rainbow hen tagged 2.142kgs; 2nd Quin Wilson, Rainbow hen F/C 1.756kgs; 3rd Kahan Phillips, Rainbow hen F/C 1.592kgs; 4th Max Wilson, Rainbow jack F/C 1.414kgs; 5th Kyle Holmes, RainWinner of the junior section Brayden Hoyes bow hen tagged 1.232kgs; 6th Lincoln Wright Hunter Redman-, HeaviSt Clair, Rainbow hen F/C. est other fish (eel) 1.138kgs Charlotte Davy, Heavi- The Bill Sullivan Memorial cup est rudd, .352kgs. for the heaviest overall fish was Max Wilson, Heaviest presented to Mark Preston. bag of 5 rudd, 1.354kgs.

of economic value to the region.

The screens also kill native fish, such as the critically endangered Canterbury mud fish.

A 2014 report from ECan, Niwa and Fish and Game recommended ways in which Canterbury’s fish screens could be improved which have largely been ignored. It appears that Ecan has put this in the too hard basket because they simply don’t have the technology and the infrastructure to actually support effective fish screens.

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Lake Arapuni Fishing comp Fine weather welcomed 114 entrants in the Lake Arapuni Trout fishing contest held on the weekend of 18th and 19th of March.

Although the fishing was considered hard 75 well-conditioned trout made it to the scales along with 15kg’s of rudd and a number of eels in the junior section.

Only 7 of the trout weighed in were wild fish (fish spawned in the lake system) the rest either fin clipped or tagged hatchery reared fish which are released annually.

Results, Adult section: 1st Mark Preston, Rainbow Jack F/C 2.480kg; 2nd Brad Gillespie, Brown hen wild fish 2.456kgs; 3rd Les Connor, Rainbow hen F/C 2.396kgs; 4th Allan Treloar, Rainbow hen F/C 2.332kgs; 5th Neil Longstaff, Rainbow jack F/C 2.304kgs; 6th Mark

The Rangitata River has up to 30 percent of the juvenile salmon drawn into irrigation canals where they are injured or died as they moved through fish screens.

The impact on fish stocks is very noticeable.

The council must ensure that these screens work and should stop putting farmers’ interests above those of recreational users.

There are 20,000 odd anglers in the Canterbury area and hundreds of visiting anglers which bring a lot

This is a day not to be missed……

Coromandel Seafood Fest, is fast becoming the social highlight of the Peninsula, come along, find your spot, enjoy the sun, gather with friends, be entertained with fabulous music, and delicious food.

Entry is by gold coin donation on Saturday 6th May 2017, 10:00am to 4:00pm, at the Coromandel

Area School, bottom field.

A celebration of all things Coromandel from the infamous Greenshell mussels to Coromandel oysters, showcasing local fishing charters and associated businesses, the Coromandel Seafood Fest has something for everyone.

A huge centre marquee means revellers can enjoy the day no matter what the weather - Seafest has become known as a festival that meets and greets the elements in style - no matter what is thrown at it.

The festival is a taste, sight & sound extravaganza for those who enjoy good food, good company and a good time.

With an impressive variety of products will be offered, and presented by Derek The Chef, in many weird and wonderfully creative ways - enjoyed with continuous live entertainment throughout the day. Cook Off Other demonstrations will include Oyster Shucking,

Mussel Opening, Fish Filleting and an impressive array of food stalls.

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Saturday 6th May 2017 10:00 am - 4:00 pm, Coromandel Area School (bottom field) The programme includes: oyster shucking mussel shucking live local bands celebrity Chef : Derek the Chef Cook off: between local chefs food stalls fish filleting demonstration Facebook page: Coromandel Seafood Fest For further enquiries call: Festival Organizers: 07 8668797 e-mail: des-gail@xtra.co.nz

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“The National-led government is so pro-overseas ownership they voted against NZ First’s Bill to set up a register of foreign ownership.” of Outdoor Recreation Associa- like Hollywood film maker James Overseas Investment Office Clearly the National Party did tions said the increase reflected a Cameron had bought and then proclaimed that the buyer was not want to know what the lax attitude by government and erected high, ‘no access’ fences. a ‘key player in a key industry’. He level of overseas buying was. its Overseas Investment Office. “It’s a bit unfair to target James Cam- went unnamed until sleuths re- “And they most certain“The OIO should be called the eron as it’s happening everywhere. vealed him to be an American TV ly don’t want the public to Overseas Buyer’s Office.“ he said. That traditional access for fishing broadcaster who likes fly fishing. know,” said Winston Peters.

“It virtually rubber-stamps ev- or hunting has suddenly gone.” “What exactly will be his ‘key’ contri- Bill Benfield recalled the words ery application, irrespective NZ First stepped into the debate bution and what key industry was of the late John Henderson who of the consequences. One of with Winston Peters question- that? Too many foreign buyers are was president of the NZ Deerthe major consequences is the ing the benefits to New Zealand. here in pursuit of their own interests.” stalkers Association who in 1972 blocking of long-time access “The question much be asked – Winston Peters said NZ First’s warned against foreign ownership. via New Zealand family farms.” where is the gain for New Zealand?” priority was for New Zealand- In 1972 in a Victoria University lecHe said in the Wairarapa, foreigners A recent sale approved by the ers to farm and look after the ture, John Henderson said “There

Rising Country Sales threatens angler access

by John McNab

Foreign buyers grabbed over 360,000 hectares of freehold farm or forestry land last year and 103,000 ha of leasehold land, a big increase on the previous years. In 2015 the Overseas Investment Office (OIO) allowed only 75,000 ha of freehold and just 5,000 ha of leasehold land to go to foreign ownership.

The big increase has outdoor recreation circles shaking their heads in disbelief. Wairarapa’s Bill Benfield co-chairman of the Council

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is nothing more dangerous or damaging to a small egalitarian society such as New Zealand’s than the injection of a handful of foreigners possessing private wealth that our social system does not and should not permit.”

“Protection from such damaging influences as John Henderson spoke against can be assured in the long term only by proper government action and legal safeguards,” said Bill Benfield. “The OIO and government have failed miserably and alarmingly judged on the latest 2016 figures.”

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Cameras could force half of all fishers out OPINION – by Graham Carter

Radio NZ recently aired an in-depth Insight piece “Will Cameras End Commercial Fish Dumping? Commercial fishers are extremely nervous as the camera clock counts down and Minister Guy cannot say he did not know that industry would collapse. Only two options remain to him – establish a comprehensive review to fix the problem once and for all, or continue to hide and mislead the public about it.

Half of New Zealand’s inshore fishing fleet could be put out of business following the introduction of cameras to monitor fish dumping.

That’s the prediction of Auckland University academic Dr Glenn Simmons, as the government moves towards installing cameras on all commercial boats starting in October next year.

The start date for the cameras was brought forward last year after a series of headlines around the failure of the Ministry for Primary Industries to prosecute those found dumping fish. But commercial fishers say they should not be turned on until problems are first sorted out with the quota management system, as they have little control over what their trawl nets pull up and they often contain up to 30 different types of fish, many of them undersized.

This in itself is a lie as the commercial industry does have control over what their net pull up – all they have to do is fish somewhere else, change their nets to be selective which some have done, or change their fishing methods to say line fishing. Instead, industry don’t want to do anything other than somehow make their wasteful illegal practices legal by sorting out the “world leading” quota management system.

Commercial fisher Tony Threadwell told Radio NZ that “It would be very

very difficult for any inshore fishermen in New Zealand today to go to sea and not commit a technical offence and that’s just ridiculous…

There needs to be a credible and practical discards policy that allows us to continue to work in an environment without breaking the law.”

Commercial fishers state that it’s hard for fishers to talk about what is really going on for fear they’ll be prosecuted - but most know the rules around dumping are not working. By their own admission, our “world leading” quota management system needs sorting out after all.

The NZ system requires fishers to bring most so-called worthless quota fish home, even though they are destined for the landfill and take up valuable space on boats that could be used to stow fish they can sell.

Yet overseas systems ensure that all fish is landed and utilized fully, nothing is wasted and the fillets are the least valuable part of the fish. Hardly surprising but argued against by the NZ industry.

However if commercial fishers had any backbone they would force the government to do the right thing, by standing up against the large quota holders and fishing companies that have forced them into the situation they are in.

Auckland University’s Dr Glenn Simmons says they are right to be nervous. “That is going to have a significant economic impact on their ability to turn a profit and if the cameras are monitored correctly, and complemented with observer coverage, we will definitely see half the fleet go out of business.”

The Minister for Primary Industries, Nathan Guy, admits there are problems and government is continuing to consult with lobbyists of quota owners on the

final shape of its review of the sector, but not the fishermen and ignoring recreational input.

In October 2014 David Turner Director Fisheries Management sent out an email stating that fisheries management “haven’t covered themselves in glory...they have just gone about it very poorly. Discarding is a systemic failure of the current system and something we have not been able to get on top of from day 1 of the QMS. We suspect they are significant to the point that they are impacting on fish stocks. I have spent the last 5 months considering discards and see this as the single biggest issue we face in our wild stock fisheries.”

In an interview on Radio NZ Morning Report, when asked to further explain Turner cunningly hedged around answering the question.

Was this because he was scared of clarifying the truth as maybe he was likely to lose his job. Omission is the same as blatantly lying, so how can we now take what he or anything else from MPI says, as credible.

And now we have Turner’s subordinate Steve Halley manager inshore fisheries, covering up and lying about the facts. Little wonder that Steve Halley’s industry nickname is “Comet, because he flies around putting on a light show but leaves nothing behind of substance”.

Comet, how about some honesty?

Why are so many commercial fishers concerned that they will lose their livelihoods when cameras are introduced? Is it because cameras will stop them from dumping their so-called worthless fish and replacing them with valuable ones. Hardworking small inshore commercial fishers are coping most of the flak and while they are most likely to lose their businesses, the larger

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On one hand it appears that fish dumping, underreporting, hiding the killing of dolphin and seabirds is prevalent otherwise the industry wouldn’t have any concerns. And on the other hand we have MPI regulators saying that the fishery is in good health everything’s fine and honky-dory, but dumping and underreporting are significant. So why all the denials Minister Guy? The public have a right to know that MPI regulators have embellished, covered up and blatantly lied about the problem. Industry has done the same. Now with the introduction of cameras they are running scared. Yet camera companies also say that cameras have their issues, and are not able to fully film what happens at sea.

So let’s look at a few of the issues: Information leaks from senior MPI managers who are disgusted with MPI practices; The blatant cover-ups, lying and deceit by MPI about dumping and underreporting; The lack of prosecutions against commercial offenders; Refusal by MPI to release operational reports showing blatant dumping and underreporting; Giving a camera contract to an industry owned company versus a tested and proven international company; Admissions by camera companies that there were significant issues with the cameras – not full proof; The cutting of observer coverage on inshore vessels; Denials of dolphin bycatch by DoC and MPI staff; Implementation of ‘offal discard systems’ in the hulls of the new fishing vessels which allows for unwanted

fish to be minced and discharged as chum under fishing boats; Admissions by fishing skippers that the QMS system urgently needs a review versus the Minister’s refusal to do so; A Westpac Bank report stating the industry as a failing and archaic industry not suitable for investors; Mismanagement of crayfish in the CRA 2 area; Boat ramp surveys carried out over ten years by fishing clubs that refute MPI science, which are ignored by MPI. Industry’s refusal to supply product to NZ outlets enabling the black market industry to thrive; These highlight the very issues which have alarmed thousands of recreational fishers. Minister Guy you need to start sorting out MPI from the top and the quota management system, or on Saturday 23 September 2017 recreational fishers will sort you and your government out! Nothing less than an independent Commission of Inquiry will suffice. Like the fishermen Minister Guy yours and your government’s clock is counting down.

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Flyfishing Controllers Wanted The Oceania Fly Fishing Championships are to be held from April 6th to April 8th between New Zealand and Australia.

Sport Fly Fishing New Zealand are asking all anglers to consider being a controller for the event.

They will need 10 controllers from Wednesday night 5 April through to and including Saturday 8 April.

They will also need another 10 controllers from Friday night 7 April to help control on Saturday.

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