"Well, it's been polluted forever cobber!"
So replied a whitebaiter who refuses to lay down his net and stop baiting in Christchurch's Avon River which is running brownish with raw human sewerage.
We should be appalled, but I found his comment ... succinct.
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Well Robert, all the whitebait caught in the Grey river (and Buller for that matter) swims through all the raw poose and weese from every household in Greymouth and Westport.
Then it is promptly frozen and sent to Auckland!!
(laughs in evil tone)
:)
This could explain Bank's behaviour Shunda and that of a number of other Aucklanders wealthy enough to be buying West Coast Brown/whitebait.
They're full of it!
Surely though, Greymouth's sewerage system isn't raw-to-the-river?!?!
when I was a young fella I used to catch eels in the Grey, right across from the Richmond Hotel. We used to watch the big 'floaters' come out the pipes below the wharf - nothing was processed then.
It's impossibly tempting for young boys to try to sink them with well aimed rocks.
Robert, we have had a third world sewage system until only very recently, straight into the drink with it!.
One could loose a "corn backed moon fish" in the privacy of ones home, race down to the river bank and watch it swim out to sea!!
For the last couple of years it has been UV treated with artificial lights as it floats past, other than that it is still raw to the river.
It is a disgrace.
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