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TROUT FISHING WITH MAURICE RODWAY - Weekly Column: February 22, 2002 |
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Trout Need Cool Water After some time perceptive anglers realised that pollution was the biggest killer of trout and trout waters. This is still upper most in the minds of many anglers. It is true that from the
1950's to the 1980's many of our rivers were badly polluted but now the situation is much better. Fisheries and water managers gradually moved the pollution awareness of water users from one of indifference to one of awareness then
to innovation. While there are still some in the first camp, most are aware that pollution is bad for the environment and may be bad for business. A few are moving into the innovation school. Those that innovate will be
tomorrow's wealthy, economically socially, and environmentally. Polluting and degrading rivers is now a practise of the past. Innovative industries and farmers look to make economic gains from environmentally sustainable
practises. Fencing off streams is seen by some to be a cost to the farmer, but if shelter trees are grown the trees provide better growing conditions for the grass on the leeward side so there is a net economic gain. The trees
become an important carbon sink which will enable New Zealand as a whole to gain a market advantage for its agricultural products on the world stage. If the trees shade the stream they will reduce the growth of instream weeds that
otherwise block the channel to cause flooding and drainage problems. Again economic gains can be found. These innovations provide gains for fish and other animals that live in the streams. Anglers have more trout to fish for and
New Zealand becomes a better place as a tourist destination, and as a place to live. Anglers problems are often seen as those which are the most obvious, such as a shag with a trout in its beak They rarely delve into the realm of
industrial and agricultural innovation but this is where we must go to save the rivers that trout live in. The accelerated warming of the earth that we are largely responsible for will destroy more trout than a hundred flocks of
shags. We must discard old habits that will make this worse. We must find new ones that provide wealth and environmental gains. We must identify mechanisms to slow the warming of the earth and provide equitable gains for
all. Trout need cool water but so do we all. There was never a more important time to act in the interests of all the creatures on the earth. We cannot do it by trying to protect our patch at the expense of others'. We need
to realize that to save our futures we need to save the future of everyone. Maurice Rodway |
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Introduction | Main Pool | Rules | Bliss in Te Anau | Southland Angling Bible |
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Trout Encounters | River Descriptions | Fishing in Southland | Ring-A-River | Salmon Days |
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First Publication: 29 September 1996, Updated 01-Mar-03. |
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Frontier Fishing is a South Island, NZ-based, owned and operated enterprise. |
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