Submission re Marine Environment and Blue Cod Fishery in the Marlborough Sounds.
April 2008, Danny and Lyn Boulton
To embrace eco-system based and integrated management preserving a minimum of 35% of the coastal area of the Marlborough Sounds.
‘Before you say no be sure you understand the science and evidence that supports this submission’.
Kia Ora ,
These are thoughts on the need to develop long term strategic planning for
Totaranui Queen Charlotte Sounds.
I have limited this submission to Totaranui, QCS , My knowledge of Hioere,Pelorus is limited and judgements on its future is best left to persons who are better aquainted than myself, the only suggestion is that Tenneson Inlet Worlds End and d’Urville, Is French Pass should be made into MPA’s and don’t allow those wonderful big outer Sounds inlets like Port Gore and Titirangi be made into AMA areas, it is their seclusion that makes them so special don’t allow them to be fulled up to the eyes with aquaculture
As stated in our article on Aquaculture, there is an urgent need to have scientific research carried out on the effects of mussel farming in the Marlborough Sounds, before any further licenses are granted. In the absence of this research it is left to lay-persons to do the best they can to assess the situation as they see it. This article is just such an attempt to assess the damage being done to the sea bed under the mussel farms, which we see as only one of the negative effects of mussel farming. Because the effects can easily be seen, we feel that the lay-person can form an opinion on this area of concern.
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