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Speaker 1: From horses to fishies Rakaia River Fishing promotion. So the

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Speaker 1: team behinds the popular Rakaia fishing competition. The chair is

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Speaker 1: Chris a.

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Speaker 2: New Morning, Good morning, Look how I go?

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Speaker 1: You're good? So this is back next weekend and a

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Speaker 1: big change. There's no way in in fact, there's no

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Speaker 1: need to go fishing at all to be a part

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Speaker 1: of this one percent.

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Speaker 2: You don't need a license, you don't need to go fishing.

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Speaker 2: All you've got to do is be in the hall

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Speaker 2: when the super drawers start at eight o'clock every night

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Speaker 2: with your number and you're in the drawer to win.

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Speaker 1: So what's behind all this Now?

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Speaker 2: There's not a lot of fish in the river, and

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Speaker 2: there's a committee. We decided last year when they changed

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Speaker 2: the rules to one fish per person, that we would

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Speaker 2: do our part to protect what's left in the river,

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Speaker 2: what fish are coming back by not accepting any fishful

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Speaker 2: way in.

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Speaker 1: Greenpeace have made headlines in the past today with their

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Speaker 1: unwelcome additions to our freshly referbed Salmon's statue, and will

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Speaker 1: make it clear that no one's condoning the sort of behavior.

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Speaker 1: But on the message that they're trying to make about

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Speaker 1: farming's impact on the river and that being a reason

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Speaker 1: for fish numbers. Have they got a point? They've pointed

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Speaker 1: to this competition as an example of the impact. What's

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Speaker 1: your take, Yeah, I guess they have a point.

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Speaker 2: It's also there's a lot of other factors going on

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Speaker 2: with the river. There's you know, low water, there's the

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Speaker 2: chemberages out at sea. There's there's a multitude of issues

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Speaker 2: going on there that we need to sort of unravel

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Speaker 2: a bit more to understand what's going on. One hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: Are you confident that we can fix it because this

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Speaker 1: is our identity?

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Speaker 2: Man, Oh, we can fix the statue, but I am

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Speaker 2: very unsure about whether we can fix the salmon or not.

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Speaker 2: Whether it's a different species we have to bring in

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Speaker 2: or something like that might be an option. I'm no

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Speaker 2: scientists where there's that to the experts to try and

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Speaker 2: understand what's going on.

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Speaker 1: Really, So back to the competition, what we still have

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars worth of prizes to be won.

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Speaker 2: It actually fifty dollars worth up to just under sixty

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars all up.

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Speaker 1: Holy heck, well, that's pretty cool. Obviously devoted confidence that

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Speaker 1: all your supporters and the businesses that get on board

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Speaker 1: are backing your decision here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got some awesome sponsors on board and they

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Speaker 2: back ups every year. We've got some new sponsors this

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Speaker 2: year as well, which is fantastic. We couldn't do it

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Speaker 2: without them to be fair.

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Speaker 1: So how do we get in the draw to way?

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Speaker 1: How does it work?

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Speaker 2: So? All you got to do is either go to

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Speaker 2: via the Facebook page for ki Ros Fishing Promotions or

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Speaker 2: via a website dub dub dub dot ri ki Salmon,

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Speaker 2: follow the links there to the entry, make the payment.

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Speaker 2: The early bird draws closed midnight tonight and then the

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Speaker 2: applius for entry goes up by ten dollars as of tomorrow,

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Speaker 2: and we'll take entries right up until Thursday next week.

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Speaker 1: And the Thursdays when it gets underway, right through until

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Speaker 1: Sunday the first yep.

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Speaker 2: Thursday night and hold doors are open at six o'clock.

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Speaker 2: First super draw starts or the super draws start every

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Speaker 2: night at a PM and run through till ten about

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Speaker 2: of these two at least two super draws every hour.

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Speaker 1: Super draws are they the ones where you have the

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Speaker 1: chance to win the motorbike?

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Speaker 2: No, So these motorbikes drawn on Sunday along with all

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Speaker 2: the Category two prizes. Super draws are just a bunch

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Speaker 2: of prizes, generally around two thousand dollars worth, and we

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Speaker 2: do between four and six of them at night.

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Speaker 1: And I just got here. All proceeds from this going

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Speaker 1: back to the Rakaia River supporting river here. What's that

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Speaker 1: look like? What are some of the stuff you guys do? Correct?

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Speaker 2: We suppought initiatives and stuff on the river. Our last

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Speaker 2: one was we spent seventy thousand dollars on project up

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Speaker 2: at Glenarra organized by Steve Cherry, fencing off spawning streams

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Speaker 2: up there to protect the smolt that all the fish

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Speaker 2: that give back and spawn and the smolt up there

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Speaker 2: stop the stop from getting in and stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: It's all on land that's been gifted back to for

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Speaker 2: that purpose.

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Speaker 1: You're right on, Well, this seems like it's a lot

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Speaker 1: more to my ability. Were jesting, Oh fair Chris, that

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Speaker 1: my fishing experience with young ellis at the stage has

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Speaker 1: been heading up to the high Country Lakes. She'll take

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Speaker 1: two cars. We'll end up with a bird's nest the

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Speaker 1: size of a football. And then I spend the rest

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Speaker 1: of the night untangling that while she's with my rod.

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Speaker 2: As a tradition, yes, correct. You don't need to be

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Speaker 2: an expert in any field.

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Speaker 1: That's say a lot of frustration. Rakaya Samon dot co

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Speaker 1: dot nz is the website and appreciate your time to

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Speaker 1: fill us an early bird entries closing today