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| New signs ready for installation |
The threat to our eel population is ongoing. In March eleven
eels were poisoned at the Haswell Place stormwater outlet. This would have been
caused by some person putting a poisonous substance into the stormwater system.
We appear to have arrested the fishing of eels by installing
signs. The temporary signs, erected some years ago, are being replaced with permanent
ones with a QR code. When this is scanned on a smart phone, it takes the user
to a DOC You Tube clip about longfin eels, and why it is important to give them
protection. It is the longfin eels that have a classification of “at risk,
declining”.
Click on this link https://youtu.be/8w0kgAwv1Ps to see eels, including longfin, and giant
kokopu. This was filmed in the Gordonton Stream section of Mangaiti Gully by a
local resident. This demonstrates the importance of protecting the habitat of freshwater
fauna as we restore our gully back to native flora cover.
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