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    LETTERS

    Nov 20, 2020 3 minutes

    CONSERVATION ISSUES

    In the Spring issue of Trout Fisher I was delighted that Mel Hollis wrote about conservation issues, especially in Canterbury.

    About 25 years ago, Dr Wayne McCallum then of North Canterbury Fish and Game, took me on a tour to show me some of the pollution of Canterbury Streams. Then the Irwell River ran dry from aquifer over-extraction for irrigation and I became very angry. Twelve months previously, I had taken world famous American angler Mel Kreiger to fish the Irwell at Brookside. He could not believe we had such a wonderful spring creek so

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