I am well aware of that ,however for all intents&purposes the common law home of NZ's canada population is regarded as lake ellesmere. At the time this fucking nefarious (aka politically adept)massacre was planned the estimate of SI population was 40,000birds and 33%of that was destined for culling.
This event via one TomLanauze led to the birth of NZGBHA, which Tom intended.as a means of gooseshooters having input into this whole sorry saga.
, The combination of Hon David Carter Min agriculture and HON Kate Wilkinson Min Conservation. pleaded poverty to F&G-not a brass razoo available to assist with canada management
Wilkinson had the bare faced audacity to say as much on Canty TV interview with Rob cope Williams,. RCW when i emailed him was bloody gunshy!
With an election looming with a select high country group of FF bleating,these two managed(lovely term that ,open to a variety of interpretations) to come up with $100,000.00 to sort the problem-plus DOC,E-Can and every other local authority including the village idiot. Wilkinson was sacrificed subsequent to the repercussions of this.
That massacre was the biggest fuck up in christendom for now old man canada is back bigger better and wiser than ever and sweet jesus natures wee shakeup of canterbury was literally like viagra to em -theyre all over the avon&heathcote rivers and estuary and cant be touched.oh yes the very same local authorities are planning again but if Im any judge of character Id be putting $10.00 each way on the canadas to win this race too.
At the time TV3 and a local paper reporter rang me about the devastation at ellesmere but as Tom Lanauze was already on the case I left it to him to show the reality -and he did so bloody well!
I have it also on impeccable authority that CCC persons used suppressed .22s to attempt to clear the canadas off public water areas in their jurisdiction -big fail both times.
-bloody funny that considering DOC managers told me no way Jose when I asked to use a .22 to euthanize birds with shot off beaks&partially missing wings that I had to watch slowly starve to death .no I could not get em to where a 12g was a 100%foolproof end to the agony!
GSP follower if youre out there care to tell what you told me about wee conversations with DOC managers regarding this.
My son had friends coming back from the coast who witnessed ,to their horror tourists in tears as the birds of death blew the shit out of the terified birds on a major lake bystate higfhway 73. furious -that was a bloody understement when i spoke to them!
i also had a conversation with a F&G official who told me of a coast chopper crew who were geared up to go until warned off in no uncertain terms.
when a number of dead canadas were found on Lake Hoch stetter The shit hit the fan.
it seems coasters in this instance have more regard for wildlife than some!
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