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Speaker 1: The city council. This is in christ has come up

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Speaker 1: with the idea of releasing partially treated sewage into the ocean.

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Speaker 1: This is all the result of this Bromley wastewater mess.

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Speaker 1: Of course, the concern is over aquaculture, the potential and

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Speaker 1: neurovirus outbreaks. Ben Winters, as director of a Roman New

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Speaker 1: Zealand and Aquaculture New Zealand Member and as with has

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Speaker 1: been good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Mike.

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Speaker 1: This is animal This is animals v people though, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you're in Bromley and you put up

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Speaker 1: with a stench for months on end, you're sick of it,

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Speaker 1: you probably go with the sewage in the water, wouldn't you.

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Speaker 2: My first things thanks having me on the show. I

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Speaker 2: would be putting my hand up being a local resident.

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Speaker 2: I mean obviously we're in the Bombley area as well. Yeah, look,

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Speaker 2: I can feel for the disgrunted residents. As I say,

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Speaker 2: we've got our factory, we're employing sixty five locally. We

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Speaker 2: do put up for that stench as well. Unfortunately Bromley

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Speaker 2: has been tagged with that odor for some time. But

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Speaker 2: does you know by pumping sewage raw sewage is it

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Speaker 2: going to be treated into Pegas's day is that the

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Speaker 2: answer is that just going to cause another major issue.

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Speaker 2: And of course with greenland muscles on our doorstep, in

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Speaker 2: our backyard, which would potentially become very contaminated.

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Speaker 1: Does it depend in any way, shape or form how

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Speaker 1: they do it treated, partially treated, how much, et cetera,

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Speaker 1: or not.

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Speaker 2: To be honest, we don't want to see any sewage

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Speaker 2: in any form, filtered, chlorine, you name it. It does

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Speaker 2: not need to go into pieces Bay. This could be

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Speaker 2: a national disaster. Aquaculture is a big part of our

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Speaker 2: firmary industry and to see just to turn the taps

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Speaker 2: on would be economic disaster.

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Speaker 1: And when we say aquaculture, so when you say green

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Speaker 1: lit muscles, this is farmed muscles. This is not just

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Speaker 1: the natural habitat per se.

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Speaker 2: No, Mike. We've got eight farms in the surrounding Banks Peninsula,

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Speaker 2: ranging from Port Levy right through to Mens's Bay Squally Base.

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Speaker 2: So we've got eight farms in the area. So approximately

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Speaker 2: one year we can harvest up to two thousand and

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Speaker 2: ten of live muscles. Aquaculture, but also it spills into

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Speaker 2: the fishing industry as well. I mean Littleton is littered

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Speaker 2: with fishing boats going out daily. So look at that toffted.

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Speaker 2: Then we've got it's going to split into the fishing

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Speaker 2: industry as well.

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Speaker 1: What about the business of Look they did it at

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Speaker 1: mower Point. I mean, I know, not deliberately, but nevertheless,

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Speaker 1: is there a difference between Pegasus and the cook Straight

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Speaker 1: in terms of how the nature would deal with it?

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Speaker 2: Obviously, cooks straight to a large area where we're in

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Speaker 2: a very congested area. I mean, Peggas's Bay is right

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Speaker 2: on our doorstep. We're only a few kilometers away. They're

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Speaker 2: coming up all these scientific ferries where the current's going

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Speaker 2: to go. But we're in christ Church, we get the

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Speaker 2: predominant easterly one, so of course we're right in the

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Speaker 2: firing line of the Pegass Bay outlet.

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Speaker 1: Where does this go? I mean, is this going to happen?

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Speaker 1: Or are we still in the throes of scrapping about it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good question, Mike. Look, we only just heard about

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Speaker 2: it like late last week. Is it going to happen?

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Speaker 2: This is the big question mark. We've invited Phil to

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Speaker 2: come and see us personally. We'd love to take them

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Speaker 2: through our new factory. We've just invested in. We've got

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Speaker 2: obviously our new muscle boat. We'd love to fail to

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Speaker 2: come out and taste the fresh screen lit muscles, which

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Speaker 2: we do with our clients on a regular basis. So look,

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Speaker 2: it's all here say at the moment, but obviously this

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Speaker 2: is our main bread and butter. We got pretty stirred up.

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Speaker 2: So I got pretty active on the on the media

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Speaker 2: channels over the weekend and I do appreciate the time,

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Speaker 2: and I worie this will never happen.

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Speaker 1: I wish you well. We'll stay in touch. Ben Winters

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Speaker 1: and Films A good guy filming the Mayor Christie's film Major.

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Speaker 1: Of course, I've Ben Winter's out of his director of

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Speaker 1: a Roman news even

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