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Speaker 1: Water Care is set to pay one million dollars in

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Speaker 1: settlement to ten oyster farmers affected by a sewage spill.

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Speaker 1: Around twelve hundred cubic metres of wastewater entered the Maharangi River,

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Speaker 1: forcing farmers to halt harvesting for nearly a month. And

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Speaker 1: Net Done is chair of the Oyster Farmers Association Mahudangi

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Speaker 1: Oyster Farmers Association joining me this morning, the net good morning,

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Speaker 1: Good morning. So a million bucks, What's how far does

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Speaker 1: that go?

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Speaker 2: It goes between ten farmers, So it's it's basically just

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Speaker 2: to get over at this little funt that we're just

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Speaker 2: going through at the moment. But there's further evaluations that

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Speaker 2: need to be done that need to be sort of

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Speaker 2: finalized with the amount of demage has been done to

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Speaker 2: the harbor and the reputation of the Mahangy oyster farmers

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Speaker 2: over the next two months.

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Speaker 1: Are there only ten farmers in the area or what

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Speaker 1: is are there others that have been affected that aren't

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Speaker 1: getting compensation.

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Speaker 2: There's ten farmers in the Maharana Harbor that are part

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Speaker 2: of the cost center. We have spent catching farmers that

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Speaker 2: are in the harbor, which They've got big operators. They

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Speaker 2: catch oysters from the Mahaing and transport them through to

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Speaker 2: the Corimandel and Cleveden.

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Speaker 1: How much do you reckon this has cost the individual farmers.

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Speaker 2: Everally farmers different, so like every farmer of farms and

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Speaker 2: their oiter is in a different way. So I can't

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Speaker 2: really sort of like put an exact pin number on

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Speaker 2: each farmer.

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Speaker 1: What does it do to your your reputation? I mean

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Speaker 1: if you're now, I mean I'm talking about Mahadania oysters

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Speaker 1: and I'm talking about sewerage.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know the biggest thing is, you know,

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Speaker 2: like what price do you put on not being able

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Speaker 2: to swim fish and eat delicious oysters? You know? A

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Speaker 2: million is not enough each Each and every day the

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Speaker 2: harvest shut their stories about wastewater and the oysters. Our

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Speaker 2: reputation as the Mahonging oyster farmers continues just to be

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Speaker 2: damaged and own it.

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Speaker 1: I completely agree with you. And they're not compensating for

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Speaker 1: that at this point, are they? It does seem it

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Speaker 1: does seem to be fair to them that lake water

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Speaker 1: Care is genuinely engaged like listening and talking and paying.

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Speaker 1: Is that fair.

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Speaker 2: For this sance, yes, but not others.

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Speaker 1: No, how many others.

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Speaker 2: We've had, like I think thirty two thirty five skills

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Speaker 2: throughout the last year we've been open probably about five

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Speaker 2: or six weeks for the whole year, So it's been

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Speaker 2: tougher for every farmer.

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Speaker 1: And this is the only one they're paying out for.

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Speaker 2: This is one of accepting liability for because it supposedly

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Speaker 2: was a power food that their pump stations have like failed.

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Speaker 1: Lynette, appreciate your trying this morning. Lyn Nette Done, chair

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Speaker 1: of the Mahangi Oyster Farmers Association. For more from early

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