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Wednesday <strong>May</strong> <strong>29</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
News<br />
• By Louis Day<br />
HECTOR’S dolphins have an<br />
important part to play in the<br />
economy according to a recent<br />
study.<br />
The study by Market Economics<br />
found hector’s dolphin-related<br />
eco-tourism brings almost<br />
$25 million to the New Zealand<br />
economy each year, with another<br />
$3-$6 million<br />
in associated<br />
tourist activity.<br />
The study<br />
which was<br />
commissioned<br />
by<br />
Paul Bingham<br />
Liz Slooten<br />
Black Cat<br />
Cruises also<br />
found hector’s<br />
dolphins<br />
sustain up to<br />
476 jobs in<br />
the national<br />
economy.<br />
The total<br />
hector’s<br />
dolphin<br />
population is<br />
estimated to<br />
be between<br />
10-15,000 dolphins and is expected<br />
to have decreased by 74<br />
per cent over the last 30 years.<br />
The National Institute<br />
of Water and Atmospheric<br />
Research estimates that up<br />
to 100-150 hector’s and maui<br />
dolphins are drowned in set nets<br />
every year.<br />
University of Otago professor<br />
of zoology Liz Slooten said the<br />
hector’s dolphin population in<br />
the Banks Peninsula was slowly<br />
declining.<br />
She said extending the commercial<br />
fishing exclusion zone<br />
area out to a depth of 100m<br />
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Dolphins important to economy – study<br />
ASSET: Hector’s dolphin related eco-tourism brings almost $25 million to the New Zealand<br />
economy each year, with another $3-$6 million in associated tourist activity.<br />
would reduce the rate of<br />
decline.<br />
Black Cat Cruises chairman<br />
Paul Bingham said the declining<br />
hector’s dolphin population<br />
posed a real threat to businesses.<br />
“The presence of the<br />
hector’s dolphins sustains ecotourism,<br />
so we can assume fewer<br />
dolphins are likely to mean less<br />
eco-tourism activity,” he said.<br />
“We are one of seven ecotourism<br />
operators that rely on<br />
the presence of the hector’s<br />
dolphins to attract tourists. We<br />
all feel very protective of these<br />
very special mammals and the<br />
unique contribution they make<br />
to our lives, our culture and our<br />
environment.”<br />
BAY HARBOUR<br />
Local<br />
News<br />
Now<br />
Meeting to<br />
discuss freedom<br />
camping issues<br />
• By Louis Day<br />
PAGE 9<br />
Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
THE BANKS Peninsula<br />
Community Board will meet<br />
with the city council to discuss<br />
resolving freedom camping issues<br />
in Diamond <strong>Harbour</strong>.<br />
Residents have been frustrated<br />
by freedom campers throwing<br />
their rubbish on the ground only<br />
a few metres away from empty<br />
bins at the Stoddart Point Reserve.<br />
Congestion at the reserve means<br />
it is also difficult to find a car park<br />
in the morning before commuters<br />
catch the ferry to work.<br />
Freedom campers are currently<br />
restricted to staying for up to two<br />
nights in any 30-day period in<br />
certified self-contained vehicles.<br />
Banks Peninsula Community<br />
Board chairwoman Pam Richardson<br />
said they would be meeting<br />
with the city council to discuss<br />
what the best way forward was.<br />
She was unsure when the meeting<br />
would take place.<br />
Diamond <strong>Harbour</strong> Community<br />
Association chairman Richard<br />
Suggate said they did not want<br />
to see a total ban on the reserve<br />
but better regulation and tighter<br />
restrictions.<br />
“There is still a problem in<br />
peak time in the summer causing<br />
a lot of space issues for people<br />
commuting. Adding more car<br />
parks is not a good idea,” he said.<br />
Is it time to clean<br />
your fireplace?<br />
Remember to let ash cool for at<br />
least five days and only dispose<br />
of it in the red bin.<br />
ash<br />
Lay of the Land<br />
Brent Forbes<br />
Brent Forbes exhibits his latest work in a solo show<br />
‘Lay of the Land’ at Little River Gallery which opens<br />
Saturday June 1st.<br />
Brent writes about his painting practice. “It’s like<br />
driving somewhere. A shape, a curve in the road or a<br />
certain piece of light comes to your attention then just<br />
as quickly disappears in the rear-view mirror. Several<br />
kilometres down the road the same thing happens<br />
again, each new vista either forgotten or somehow<br />
remembered, an accumulation of random memories.<br />
Upon arrival you now have a loose set of images<br />
in your mind – some can be tied to a certain<br />
place, others cannot – but either way there has<br />
been a conscious and unconscious engagement<br />
with your surroundings.<br />
Then you head into the studio and use these points<br />
of reference to start working. But working is<br />
something else. There is experimentation, conflict<br />
and resolution. There is engagement and restraint.<br />
There is a journey with its own rules.<br />
Sometimes you end back up where you started, but<br />
if you are lucky you can end up somewhere new –<br />
discovered because you had an idea of where you<br />
wanted to go but as you set off you threw the map<br />
out the window.”<br />
Download the Christchurch Wheelie Bins<br />
App for useful disposal information.<br />
Lay of the Land<br />
Brent Forbes<br />
1– 26 JUNE<br />
RED<br />
GREEN<br />
YELLOW<br />
For more information visit<br />
ccc.govt.nz/DisposeAsh<br />
Main Rd, Little River | 03 325 1944<br />
art@littlerivergallery.com
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