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Salmon Holes; Crap every Where
Topic Started: Apr 23 2014, 11:33 AM (626 Views)
Brad Moor
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I took the daughter down to the Salmon holes yesterday and was dismayed at the amount of rubbish on the beach. We freed one seagull that was wrapped up in fishing line and filled my shoulder bag with bait bags and other line. It's a wonder that we are still allowed to fish there. On the flip side we did catch and release 6 or so salmon and helped a tourist catch his first salmon.
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We're our own worst enemy.

Confronted with that sort of low-life behaviour it's all too easy to easy to lay blame at this sector or that, the message has been out there for decades yet it doesn't seem to be getting through.

I can recall a weekend trip over to Rotto a bunch of years back to fish the West End during salmon season. Our trip accidentally coincided with another then prominent Club group also fishing the area, there was absolutely no one else fishing the place that weekend. We fished Radar from early in the morning to early arvo, then went across the island to fish Cathedral's in the late arvo' / evening. When we went back to Radar the next morning we were greeted by an area of fish heads, frames, scales, blood, discarded bait, bits of line etc the size of two dinner tables strewn over the rocky shore above the high tide mark. it had already started to stench-up. The rock holes around it looked like some macabre sick soup. And this was a Club group - not the sort of behaviour we'd expect from a Club.

How hard would it have been to dispose of their fish offal into the water, maybe 2mtrs away and toss a few buckets of water over the area to clean it up a little. I can only imagine the reaction of tourists confronted with that sort of mess after another day or two of stink up.

That was in the good ol' days when Club Groups were allowed to camp out at the West End on the proviso that you left the area tidy, didn't upset the wildlife and took all your rubbish out with you.

Not allowed to do that anymore, not hard to imagine why.

People are always at their worst when they're left to their own devices away from the watchful eye of big-brother, public awareness and policing campaigns are effective so long as they're done on the spot and regularly.

Other than that public humiliation and the occasional public flogging of offenders seems to deter ém too.



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