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However, staff suspected the number could be higher as some areas could not be inspected. Six months after the incident, staff found an absence of fish species downstream from where the contamination occurred. supplied Rural Contractors New Zealand chief executive Roger Parton encourages all spraying contractors to get GrowSafe accreditation – a certificate that encourages safe practices. Garry Harrison, owner of the family-run company, said it was a regrettable accident. “It won’t ever happen again,” Harrison told Stuff. His wife, Sheryl Harrison, said they had been contracting...

Bejon Haswell/Stuff Central South Island Fish and Game Council chief executive Jay Graybill says Harrison Spraying Services Ltd was careless and negligent for discharging a toxic chemical into the Mt Somers stock water race. However, staff suspected the number could be higher as some areas could not be inspected. Six months after the incident, staff found an absence of fish species downstream from where the contamination occurred. Garry Harrison, owner of the family-run company, said it was a regrettable accident. “It won’t ever happen again,” Harrison told Stuff. His wife, Sheryl...

“If this trend continues, at the end of the next 30 years, there will only be a quarter of one per cent of the 1990 fishery. In other words: nothing.” Hall said immediate hands-on action was needed, rather than more internal reviews - and a number of factors had led to the decline across the council’s waterways. The CSI Fish and Game Council covers from the south bank of the Rakaia River to Moeraki and inland to the Southern Alps. “Fish and Game can do as much internal soul-searching and audits as they like, they can have a prized set of standing orders and governance policies.