NRC is the consenting authority for the WDC-run scheme. Rob Forlong, WDC chief executive, said the council was not breaching its resource consent with pumps killing the tuna whakaheke. “But our aim is to minimise deaths to eels,” Forlong said. Eight Ngā Kaitiaki o Ngā Wāi Māori hapū members on Friday dumped 20 litres of rotting tuna, chopped up by the pumps about 10 days earlier, at the front doors of NRC and WDC in Whangārei. “We have had enough,” Chantez Connor-Kingi, Ngā Kaitiaki o Ngā Wāi Māori hapū member, said.
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The tuna whakaheke (migrating eels) were chopped up in the Hikurangi Swamp pumps on Valentine’s Day, halting a 2500km migration.
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Dargaville residents were safe and not told to evacuate amid Friday s tsunami risk.
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Eels minced by Hikurangi Swamp pumps dumped at council offices
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Hori Kingi and Chantez Connor-Kingi at Hikurangi Swamp s Ngārāratunua pumping station where eels were chopped up by pumps. Photo / Michael Cunningham
Hori Kingi and Chantez Connor-Kingi at Hikurangi Swamp s Ngārāratunua pumping station where eels were chopped up by pumps. Photo / Michael Cunningham
Susan Botting is the Local Democracy Reporter for Northlandsusan.botting@northernadvocate.co.nz
A Hikurangi Swamp kaitiaki wants the Whangārei District Council prosecuted over ongoing issues with its $23 million Hikurangi Swamp flood management scheme killing thousands of tuna whakaheke (migrating eels).
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