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Wednesday 14 January 2015
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Dolphin caught in set net
Daryl Wislang on board Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing during the Volvo Ocean Race. Daryl is the pit and boat captain and is currently racing the third leg of the race from Abu Dhabi to China. Photo: Ian Roman.
Wislang takes on the world
As Daryl Wislang walked the gauntlet of sailing fans, media and curious bystanders keen to see what all the commotion was about, he looks up at the pavilion containing friends and family and waved goodbye to his wife Jess and six month old daughter Pearl. It’s the last time he’ll see them for around 23 days and he says leaving them is toughest part of his job – a job widely regarded as one of the toughest in the world.
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Daryl – a former Nelson Yacht Club member and Waimea College head boy – is boat captain on the Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing yacht, which sails in the Volvo Ocean Race. The third of the nine-leg race took off from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates last week, and there
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Tour rolls into town
he spoke with Waimea Weekly just half an hour before he hopped on his yacht for the next leg of the race to China – a leg which his team is currently leading at the halfway mark. He says being a professional sailor is what he dreamed of when growing up in Nelson but it does have its downsides – notably, time away from his young, Wellington-based
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The Department of Conservation is urging fishers to take care using set nets in Tasman and Golden bays after two Hector’s dolphins were found dead in Tasman Bay last week, one in a set net. The recreational fisher who found the dead Hector’s dolphin calf in his set net near Wakefield Quay in Nelson last Friday immediately contacted DOC about the tragedy. The Nelson man, who did not want to be named, told the Waimea Weekly that he was “distraught” after finding the dolphin and immediately informed DOC so they could warn other setnetters that the endangered dolphins were in Tasman Bay. “I’ve been setting a net there for years and went down to catch a few fish to show my grandchildren,” the man says. “I’ve never seen Hector’s dolphins in the bay and was distraught when I found one in the net - I was so
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upset.” A dead adult Hector’s dolphin was then found in the Waimea Estuary off lower Queen St near Richmond on Sunday. The cause of the dolphins’ deaths is still to be determined. The calf is to be autopsied at Massey University to establish how it died - the adult is too decomposed to autopsy and it has been buried. DOC Acting Motueka Conservation Services Manager Chris Golding says the young Hector’s dolphin had been accidentally caught in the set net and the recreational fisher had done the right thing in reporting it to DOC. Set netting poses a major threat to Hector’s dolphins which are unique to New Zealand. They are only found in inshore waters, often close to shore, making them vulnerable to getting
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