Thread: 1080 KILLING FISH

Originally Posted by gimp

I can find you people who claim to be ill because of alien abductions too

I never got sick. I'm pretty sure I got tampered with tho😨

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There's other ways to control the pests besides using 1080.

TB control is just a small part of the drops. Most is for "conservation" apparently. Even if the drops kill most of what DoC are trying to conserve.

"DoC - putting the con in conservation"

Originally Posted by cambo

There's other ways to control the pests besides using 1080.

TB control is just a small part of the drops. Most is for "conservation" apparently. Even if the drops kill most of what DoC are trying to conserve.

"DoC - putting the con in conservation"

Youv’e been tainted by Marty Foote

Originally Posted by cambo

There's other ways to control the pests besides using 1080.

TB control is just a small part of the drops. Most is for "conservation" apparently. Even if the drops kill most of what DoC are trying to conserve.

"DoC - putting the con in conservation"

What a steaming pile.
Please enlighten us with these cost effective measures you espouse to control TB, reduce vegetation browse and add by-kill of bird predators?
The AHB and councils must love DOC carrying the can on this one.

Originally Posted by kiwijames

What a steaming pile.
Please enlighten us with these cost effective measures you espouse to control TB, reduce vegetation browse and add by-kill of bird predators?
The AHB and councils must love DOC carrying the can on this one.

Who said anything about being "cost effective"? The cheapest option is not always the best.

I plainly said there are other ways to control pests. I'm sure you'd know of a few methods yourself.

Politely, bollocks all round, you may now return to the echo chamber

I'm with Woody on this one.

Moutere probably works for DOC internet defense force.

Originally Posted by tararua

I'm with Woody on this one.

Moutere probably works for DOC internet defense force.

Cool story bro, I'm not for or against, maybe sympathetic/understanding towards the need. There's generally a lack of objective discussion, particularly towards its mode of action.

I guess its a good thing birds like wood pidgoen,rifleman and fantail are off the menu then.............. god knows whats in them

so what about eels eating carcasses of the 1080 killed possums - imagine those would be even worse...

Just seen this thread now. 1080 is used to kill everything,birds,deer,insects,rodents,opossums what ever touches the crap and who ever feeds on the critter that has consumed the shit.

I don't give a fuck about any one saying come up with other options. The truth is half this country that DOC (Destroy Our Country) have poisoned is accessable by foot and there many youngsters and older people that are willing to put in the hard yards to eradicate the pests and make a bit of coin while doing so.

The beech tree seed drop is there so called friggen reason as more rodents will be feeding on the seeds but TROUT eat fuckin mice and rats and they grow big,,,fuckn wankers Doc.................. end of my opinion as I love fishing and feeding my family

Of course.
I've seen a dog killed 6 - 8 months after a drop. That dog is well decayed now.
This is aimless.

How long do you think the poison lasts in deer that dont eat enough for a lethal dose ?
I rung the animal health board a few months back about when is a safe time to go hunting in the hokonuis he told me he was back hunting himself which was only around 2 or 3 weeks after the drop he wasnt even worried about the pellets that were still on the forest floor !!...he also told me they had no reports of deer being poisoned but after talking to a few cocky found this to be a lie.

I see no reason for DOC AHB or the pro 1080 lobby to try to spread 'pixie dust' over this story it is a real disaster for all of us.

I see the warnings. Don't eat fish out of 1080 areas or the catchment downstream of a 1080 area. But how far downstream.

I have seen a spring flush of water clear all of the trout out of the headwaters of our streams and it sometime takes several months for the fish to return. Some of these fish may end up half way down to the ocean.

In some reports they say that these fish are loaded enough to kill a dog. Those of us that hunt with dogs want to know how we protect them. Dogs cant read.

In 2002 after a 1080 drop in the Forest behind the little settlement of Te Puru a few miles up the coast from here, they had a 'Weather Bomb' I went and interviewed three locals for a story I did for the Coromandel Chronicle.

When the flood waters receded there were 1080 baits left behind on peoples sections roads and footpaths. Dead possums littered the beaches north and south of the town. All these baits and dead animals came down the Te Puru Stream ( The towns Water Supply).

Five dogs died from 1080 poisoning, more would have if a locals had not brought up all the muzzles on the Coromandel and a local made an emergency trip to Hamilton. We were very lucky that no young child picked up a bait and swallowed it.

A massive effort was required to dispose of the baits and all the carcases littering the beaches and the Te Puru Stream.

its not just dogs that need protecting