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Speaker 1: Our local MP also happens to be the Minister for

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Speaker 1: the South Island and to the Minister for Hunting and Fishing.

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Speaker 1: That's until David Seymour takes the jobs off him. I say,

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Speaker 1: sit down, Dave, he's doing a great job. James Meagher,

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Speaker 1: you would have seen, like all of us have, what

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Speaker 1: Greenpeace did to our requires salmon trout over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: So sorry say it's requires Salmon's statue over the weekend.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know if you need to get the

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Speaker 2: bleep button ready, but I think what those guys did

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Speaker 2: was stupid and deciads quite frankly. Community has just spent

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Speaker 2: a bunch of money getting that iconic fish back up

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Speaker 2: to scratch and is received with a lot of fans here,

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Speaker 2: and they've gone and basically vandalize it. So I'm not

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Speaker 2: too happy about that. And they can make the a

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Speaker 2: wider point around their concerns around the state of the fisheries. Actually,

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Speaker 2: fishing game are doing a lot of work in around

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Speaker 2: Lake here and in and around the require to look

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Speaker 2: at why numbers are falling off and what we can

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Speaker 2: do to fix it.

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Speaker 1: Let's hope they haven't put a scratch on that statue.

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Speaker 1: We're going to catch up with hamous react, ask if

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Speaker 1: there is any damage and if they're going to be

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Speaker 1: precing charges before nine. But back on the point that

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Speaker 1: they were trying to make around numbers in the river,

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Speaker 1: is there an issue here? What's going on?

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Speaker 2: Well requires subject to water conservation order, So everything that

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Speaker 2: comes out of that river subject to pretty strict conditions

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Speaker 2: in terms of what the use and take of that

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Speaker 2: water is. There's always a balance. I mean, mid canomy

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Speaker 2: wouldn't exist, it wouldn't be as prosperous as it was

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Speaker 2: now if it weren't to the fact that we could

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Speaker 2: access water. So it's all the balance. There are a

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Speaker 2: lot of reasons why the fisheries are in a state

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Speaker 2: of decline, and that's what Fish and Game are out

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Speaker 2: looking at at the moment with the consultation that's been running,

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Speaker 2: and they can come up with some options that will

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Speaker 2: enhance the state of the fisheries and get more fish

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Speaker 2: in the water than I'm up for it.

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Speaker 1: Is there still any artificial breeding of salmon like there

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Speaker 1: used to be? Would that help?

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Speaker 2: Do you think there are a few hatcheries in and

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Speaker 2: around the place, Probably not as many as there used

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Speaker 2: to be fishing game a looking at their effectiveness. There's

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Speaker 2: thoughts about whether they will be effective or not. I

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Speaker 2: think what that consultation that's gone out to everyone who's

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Speaker 2: a fishing game member will show us is everyone's got

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Speaker 2: sort of a few different ideas of what would be

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Speaker 2: the right thing to do. If we can get something

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Speaker 2: that the science backs as making a significant impact to

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Speaker 2: the state of the fisheries, then well look at that,

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Speaker 2: whether that's hatcheries or seasoned limits or whatever it is

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Speaker 2: we can maintain and then hearts those fisheries will do that.

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Speaker 2: But the fact is is that MD canonry and all

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Speaker 2: of our prosperity relies on access to the water, and

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Speaker 2: it is all in a balance, and there are very

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Speaker 2: strict conditions and controls over what can and can't be

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Speaker 2: taken out of that river. One of the solutions to

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Speaker 2: this is what we need to do in terms of

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Speaker 2: increasing water storage, because I've got more access to the

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Speaker 2: water that's stored on the land than the rivers and

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Speaker 2: in our lakes than the better use for regation at

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Speaker 2: times the year where it is dright, and of course

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Speaker 2: it's been so difficult for any farmer to build water

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Speaker 2: storage over the past twenty or thirty years due to

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Speaker 2: the RMA, But that's one of the things that we're

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Speaker 2: looking at fixing. So actually Greenpeace could get on board

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Speaker 2: here and back the RMA make it easier for farmers

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Speaker 2: to build water storage so we are less reliant on

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Speaker 2: the flodes.

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Speaker 1: Rivers make friends, not those you reckon.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's run the NEMO say that.

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Speaker 1: No, the shark fish of friends, not food. That's right,

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Speaker 1: Bruce the shark.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean the real wind that we want here

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Speaker 1: is the mum and dad and the kids that go

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Speaker 1: to the effort of forking out for a license, buying

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Speaker 1: all the gear, burning gas to get to their favorite spot,

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Speaker 1: and actually being able to take a fish home at

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Speaker 1: the end of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. And look, as miss hunting and fishing,

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Speaker 2: it's one number one priority is making it as easy

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Speaker 2: as possible for the olders to go hunting and fishing.

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Speaker 2: So if that involves taking some steps to improve the

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Speaker 2: quality of the fisheries, then we're open to doing that.

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Speaker 2: But I don't think it's as simple as laying all

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Speaker 2: the blame on irrigation and farming, which produces such an immense,

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Speaker 2: huge benefit to the community. And I don't think we

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Speaker 2: should be going around skateboarding people. We should be looking

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Speaker 2: for solutions to answers, not pointing the finger.

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Speaker 1: Hey, super Quack, are you back in town for the

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Speaker 1: Business Awards on Friday.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's right. I've got an early start. I'm getting

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Speaker 2: shuttled out to a cruise ship and Timuru to welcome

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Speaker 2: all our wonderful tourist spending their money here mid Cannerary

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Speaker 2: in South Canary, and then up in the evening to

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Speaker 2: the Aviation Museum, where I hear it's being hosted by

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Speaker 2: quite a prestigious MC, but I'm not too sure who.

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Speaker 2: That might be a great evening.

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Speaker 1: The venue itself is something spectacular, and I hear they're

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Speaker 1: even going to hang some of the planes. They're going

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Speaker 1: to be suspended over. It's like the Hawks used to

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Speaker 1: be in Wellington Airport.

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Speaker 2: Oh, that's amazing. If you've been out to the Aviation

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Speaker 2: Museum recently, you'll see all the work that's been going

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Speaker 2: on with the new hangar. It's such a huge asset

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Speaker 2: to the community. And I've been to the what we've

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Speaker 2: both been to those Business Awards before, and it is

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Speaker 2: a stunning venue and it's a great celebration of everything

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Speaker 2: that's good about mid Canrary If you just take the

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Speaker 2: exports category finalists for example, and you've got Kaipak, four Fax, Hemporino,

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Speaker 2: those are really cool, innovative products that I've visited as well,

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Speaker 2: and I've just think it's something to be proud of.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, bring on the cool stories. Cheers James Meager, good

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Speaker 1: on you see Friday