Fishing and outdoors may 2018

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Of Predators, Possums and Poisons

The Government’s plan to end all hunting in NZ! A survey was done to estimate how much red meat is harvested out of our great outdoors by the public that hunt and gather wild red meats. It is estimated that the value of this superior in quality and organic meat to be in the vicinity of about one billion dollars. This figure does not include foods gathered from fresh and salt water. Now lets’ see, one Billion dollars, - hmmmm - that’s $200 million dollars lost in income taxes and $150 million lost in GST to the New Zealand Government and most probably billions of dollars lost to farming producers. Is it that farming, industry and the New Zealand Government could have huge financial gains by eliminating wild foods that the public gather for free? Remember, the Sodium Fluoroacetate (1080) industry is controlled by government through its SOE and the Animal Deer - the real target for poisons? Health Board is funded by farmers and Government. And the farmLivestock farmers pay a levy for Ombudsman’s Act and the Of- DoC’s mismanagement and bu- ing industry is a significant politiTB eradication, collected through ficial Information Act. As a char- reaucracy. Simply put deer and cal force in lobbying Government. deductions from farmers produce ity - no joking - it dodges taxes. wild pigs are introduced game Cellular agriculture is a hot topthrough the meat or dairy process- But it is all one big hoax founded animals while stoats, weasels, rats ic which plays directly into the ing plants, by Beef and Lamb NZ Ltd, on misconceptions and myths. and possums are introduced pests. hands of the government in reDairy NZ and the Deer Industry NZ. Why do farmers paying levies and Deer and wild pigs are not intro- moving venison and wild pork. These organizations are sharehold- taxes put up with the suction- duced pests which is how they Natural and ‘free range’ will be ers of the former Animal Health ing of their hard earned money? are viewed by the government. New Zealand’s selling point Board, now called Ospri. All of the And it is based on de- “So we believe that our conserva- in the - quality natural meat. farmers’ levies plus a top-up of monizing the possum. tion lands should be managed Forest and Bird’s Kevin Hague sees a taxpayer Government funds go The Animal Health Board, Depart- to protect their indigenous eco- future where meat will be pumped to the Animal Health Board. Re- ment of Conservation and Regional systems and provide for a range out of massive stainless steel factomember farmers are taxpayers. Councils are the organisations that of recreation, not managed as ries in China and the United States. The Animal Health Board was set have fabricated the lies and de- game preserves for hunting. These “We don’t have a future in comup by the New Zealand Govern- monized the possum. The purpose game preserves are in direct con- modity farming; we won’t be ment as an incorporated Society in is to dupe the general public and flict with the purpose for which able to compete on price. We that it is a stand-alone entity that the rest of the world that the only conservation lands are managed, do have a future as a producer is answerable only to the Minister salvation of our farming from TB and that is to protect our natu- of top quality natural meat.” of Agriculture. As an Incorporated and the salvation of our forests and ral indigenous ecosystems, wild- Removing access to wild veniSociety it is exempt from both the precious native birds from preda- life, and habitats.” Eugenie Sage. son and pork will ensure contors rest with the continual use “The Green Party opposes this sumers that want fresh natuof Sodium Fluoroacetate (1080). Game Animal bill because of ral meat will have no choice. Why do these Government de- the pre-eminence that it gives The company Animal Control partments perpetuate the myth to introduced deer, tahr, cham- Products located in Whanganui of the demon possum, rats and ois, and pigs in the management processes 1080 into pelleted baits stoats and the wonderful use of of our public protected lands.” ready to be aerially sown by heliSodium Fluoroacetate (1080)? “In giving this privileged status to copter. The two directors of this Page 4 - Mussel farmers It is the bureaucrats ensuring their hunters and hunting, we seem to company are the Minister of Fiaccept liability continuation of often huge fat sala- have forgotten the deer menace nance and the Minister of Primary for debris on ries and luxurious empires to con- and the huge financial and resource Industries (MPI), two very high beaches tinue to use 1080? There is another investment by the Crown over ranking members of Parliament. element at work. Roger Douglas many decades in controlling deer Federated Farmers hold a seat too. Page 5 - Hit and miss report on the QMS and Richard Prebble dreamt up and other pests on Crown land.” Now if you have not yet added State Owned Enterprises (SOEs). And now this Green MP is all this up, it means Federated Dubbed “Animal Control Products” the Minister of Conservation! Farmers and Government want Page 6- Mussel farming the company as a SOE has to make Job Losses? to eliminate wild food gathering increases anger a profit regardless of consequences. What about the Department of to have huge financial gains for Why else would the MPI and the Conservation worker - do they themselves. And the tool to do this, Page 7- Corruption in the Treasury the shareholders be in- toe the 1080 line for fear of los- Sodium Fluoroacetate (1080) to Seafood Industry volved other than to support this ing their jobs? One retired DOC get rid of wild game such as deer. idea? And the Company is called person told me at his estimate A Conspiracy? Page 8- Doctor advises Animal Control Products not Pest 75% of DOC staff are opposed to A conspiracy theory you may 1080 Health Control which speaks for itself. 1080. But they dare not admit it. scoff. Maybe, but Man has conChecks So government through DOC, TB- Many DOC guys and gals got into spired since Julius Caesar’s day. Free and regional councils drums these jobs because they love the Plotting and scheming does hapPage 13 - NZ Sports Flyfishing champs up business for the SOE by buy- New Zealand great outdoors and pen for self-interest, power or ing 1080. Any sane person can genuinely want to nurture our money, but it all does add up. see the economic stupidity. Our precious native birds and bush. The New Zealand Government has silent forests are a memorial to But perhaps the plot thickens? this grand plan to make New Zea-

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- By John Buchanan

land ‘predator free’ by the year 2050. It is emotional scare mongering that we are in dire danger from predators. Ecological reality is every living thing is a predator including Man. When you Google what the NZ Government means by ‘Predator Free NZ’, they are only going to target the rat, stoat and possums. But a praying mantis is a predator. So is a ladybird. So is a kingfish and kahawai. The main tool for this grand predator free plan is the deadly persistent, non-selective, inhumane super poison Sodium Fluoroacetate (compound 1080), which is aerially spread over vast tracks of the people’s beautiful back country. DoC says in their literature that “It’s an opportunity for New Zealanders to protect our biodiversity and leave an impressive conservation legacy for future generations“. What codswallop. It’s all about DOC and OSPRI’s managers’ salaries. DoC have changed their stance to say pests such as rats, stoats and rats , but the evidence still points to killing deer and pigs. They have changed their website to reflect a better profile but underneath the dragon sleeps. What about all the other predators out there like the cat, dog, hedgehog, mice, kingfish, kahawai, lady birds and praying mantis and even Man? The Morepork, native falcon and hawks are predators too.

Even the fantail preys on insects. The possum is a herbivore, it only eats leaves and foliage proven by Landcare Research studies. So does this make it a predator of bushes and trees? At least one Landcare Research scientist has tagged the herbivore possum as a predator such is the ignorance of some scientists. With their use of the deadly 1080 and brodifacoum poisons DOC will leave a shameful, destroyed conservation legacy for future generations, because broad spectrum poisons kill every living thing including insects, lizards, frogs, and our precious native birds. Will future generations thanks this generation for such a legacy? Yet the bureaucrats in DOC are trying to soften the blow by targeting school children to brainwash them through our education system that all predators are bad and poisons are good. About a decade ago, DOC employed a plethora of freshwater scientists. Most of those, particularly those graduating from Auckland and Otago Universities were ‘schooled’ in the Forest and Bird mantra - native = good, introduced (pests) = bad. Then, when DOC lost a significant amount of its funding, most of these ‘scientists’ were ditched. So where did they all go? Well quite a lot of them went straight Cover story continued page 2...

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