Friday, 23 July 2021, 12:36 pm
To help save New Zealand’s wild Chinook salmon species,
a ground-breaking change to freshwater fishing regulations
will introduce a season bag for sea-run salmon in the
2021/22 fishing season, in place of a daily catch
limit. The wild sea-run salmon fishery has been in
decline for over 20 years, traditional regulatory options
haven’t been working for Fish & Game so new techniques
were required, says Alan Strong, Chair of North Canterbury
Fish and Game Council.
The celebrated sea-run salmon
fisheries of Canterbury and North Otago account for 90 per
cent of all sea-run salmon caught in the South Island but
Friday, 23 July 2021, 1:18 pm
There are no cases of COVID-19 to report in the
community in New Zealand today.
There are 19 positive
cases – all of whom are mariners in isolation – and one
historical case of COVID-19 to report today in a recent
returnee in a managed isolation facility.
Since 1
January 2021, there have been 101 historical cases, out of a
total of 682 cases.
Two previously reported cases have
now recovered. The number of active cases in New Zealand is
80.
The seven-day rolling average of new cases
detected at the border is seven.
Our total number of
confirmed cases is 2,499.
New border cases in
Friday, 23 July 2021, 4:08 pm
Local
residents on Queen Charlotte Drive express their gratitude
to road workers as the clean-up from the storm
continues.
If a region could be
measured by the compassion of its residents, Marlborough
would be off the scale, says Marlborough Mayor John
Leggett.
As a huge week of emergency response comes to
a close in the region, he took the opportunity to thank all
those involved in responding to last weekend’s storm.
“This has included several Council staff from Canterbury
who arrived in the past few days to shore up resources,”
said Mayor Leggett.
“It’s a good time for us to
Friday, 23 July 2021, 1:26 pm
A plan by two of New Zealand’s largest electricity
generators to create the world’s largest green hydrogen
plant in Southland is fundamentally flawed, says one of New
Zealand’s foremost experts in hydro schemes and
electricity generation.
Meridian and Contact Energy
released a report by global consultants McKinsey & Co on
Thursday, as they seek interest for what could be the
world’s largest hydrogen plant in Southland. Their supply
agreement with Aluminium Smelters for Tiwai Point comes to
an end in late 2024.
University of Waikato Associate
Professor Earl Bardsley said the electricity generator’s
plan was a flawed think-big project and it shouldn’t
Friday, 23 July 2021, 1:16 pm
MP for Waiariki and co-leader of Te Paati Māori, Rawiri
Waititi – says the process that has seen the Bay of Plenty
District Health Board communications botch, should be the
focus of investigation.
These comments come from a
line of digital and print communications from the DHB that
depict mataora on COVID-19 viruses.
“As a person
with a mataora, I think the use of it on a virus is
completely inappropriate. A mataora is symbolic of life –
tikanga, whakapapa, where you come from, and especially your
tīpuna. They are about peace, contribution, oranga and the
revitalisation of our culture. The fact that the sacredness