Avon River CHCH

Any of you shakey city boys pick up the lastest mid week rag(CHCHMAIL) today and read the headlines. the local medical officer of health alister humphrey is concerned about pollution in the avon and suggests "culling the ducks"
"the ducks calling the waterways home are not native and their pollution levels are high"

"Dr Humphrey said the non native duck population may need to be culled in order to cleran up rivers and make way for native species" whaaaat native species wont drop as much s..t???

apparently dog faeces are equally to blame -do we cull non native kuris as well.

there is a humungous mob of canadas in the lower reaches ,hmmmmwill the CCC let me &trusty escort loose for 10mins???

You dont get whitebait there either. You get brown bait according to 3news :)

3news would know toby.They did a report the other day raving about pollution etc-spoke to 2 baiters who said waht -we eat what we catch -no problems!
the best bait is westcoast bait regardless!!!

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Originally Posted by kotuku

3news would know toby.They did a report the other day raving about pollution etc-spoke to 2 baiters who said waht -we eat what we catch -no problems!
the best bait is westcoast bait regardless!!!

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The best bait is the stuff in my gut atm :D the water looked clean but guess its what you cant see that will hurt ya

if you shit eels or spray the bowl like an old tomcat ,then yep you might have unwelcome visitors-but as you say presently youve got a nice gutsful so good on ya.
stilldoesnt alter my orignal thoughts though -how extreme is this public official.???

The 'greenies' will be onto him in no time....are the council about to give out 'culling permits'?

Ridiculous that they blame ducks and dogs when all of the broken sewer system issues (heavy metals, bacteria etc) has been a major contributor

Exactly Rushy but post earthquake all sorts of extreme ideations are floatin about this neck of the woods. Unfortunately the same cant be said for a decent dose of good old homegrown commonsense.

Mmmmmm brown bait.