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| Article | Summary | Published |
 Trout Farming  | Should trout farming be allowed in New Zealand? | 2006/10/6 |
| Trout Diseases | Common and not-so-common diseases that can affect trout | 2006/10/6 |
| Trout Importation | Importation of trout would threaten established trout populations in a number of ways. | 2006/10/15 |
| Tongariro River | Advocates of the Tongariro River formed to safeguard world-renowned river. | 2006/10/15 |
| Rangitikei River | QRI, A Voice for the Rangitikei River | 2006/10/15 |
| River Access | The theory of the 'Queens Chain' law, is that all coastline and river banks (within 20m+/-) are available for public use. | 2006/10/15 |
| Didymo | Slowing the spread of Didymo will buy New Zealand time to find an effective counter to this invasive algae | 2006/10/15 |
 New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers The New Zealand Federation of Freshwater Anglers was set up in 1972 to oppose trout farming. Being a non-party issue that crossed political boundaries it is widely believed to have been the single most important factor that brought down the then National government. Since then the "angling lobby" has received healthy respect. Probably because it is able to focus on issues and respond quickly and effectively to threats. Trout farming, importation of trout flesh (with the risk of disease, but more importantly, putting a $ value on trout and consequently encouraging the poaching of our wild fish stock), tradeable water rights, privatisation of public resources, are examples of ongoing issues. The NZFFA was reactivated in the late 1980's due to the re-emergence of trout farming and other proposals. Since then it has become an organisation representing the interests of New Zealand anglers but particularly angling clubs at national level. A number of club members have held executive positions in the federation. President; Theo Simionedis, Strato Cotsilinis. Secretary; Strato, Gordon Baker. Treasurer; Strato, Paul Baker, Sonia Irain-Patterson. Gordon Baker  Overseas experience is a warning to New Zealand: In Norway acidification and the parasite Gyrodactylus salaris are factors that have had a negative impact on salmonid stocks, along with other factors including hydropower and other developments, fish diseases and pollution from agriculture or other sources, and farmed fish that escape and mix with stocks of wild salmon spread diseases and impoverish the gene pool. Many of these threats are interelated.Have your say. |
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