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Buy Deadman Gold hunting and fishing with my love of writing and communicating.”Don Rood will take up his new role in Wellington in midOctober.You are hereHome Tukituki decision a win for water quality and farming The draft decision by the Board of Inquiry BOI on the Tukituki Catchment proposal represents a significant win for freshwater management and the urgency of a transition to environmentally sustainable agriculture in New Zealand, says Fish Game NZ.
Fish Game lead the evidence presented against the most contentious issue in front of the BOI which was Hawke’s Bay Regional Council’s proposed “single nutrient managementapproachthis focussed only on the management of phosphorous and set instream nitrogen limits at toxic levels.“This would have paved the way for unconstrained land intensification, and subsequently all the adverse impacts on water quality that flow with that,says Fish Game chief executive Bryce Johnson.
The ruling by the BOI is that such an approach would neither safeguard the life supporting capacity of our freshwater resources, nor provide for the public’s right to access water that is safe for swimming, fishing and food gathering.For farming in the catchment to be environmentally sustainable the BOI ruled that both nitrogen and phosphorous needs to be managed to ensure ecosystem health.
We all want a strong and vibrant economy, but public opinion clearly shows that New Zealanders will not tolerate unfettered economic growth or subsidised irrigation schemes that have a detrimental impact on
Cheap Runescape 2007 Gold their environment and their waterways,says Mr Johnson.“The BOI has delivered a ruling that should sit well with Kiwisessentially it acknowledges we can have agricultural growth, but the challenge now laid down is that any intensification must not be at the expense of the environment or the natural resources owned and enjoyed by all New Zealanders.
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