A seahorse in the Kapiti Island Marine Reserve. Many locals gave up their fishing rights to Kapiti's waters to let the reserve go ahead. Chris Turver, one-time commodore of the Waikanae Boating Club and now a regional councillor, was one of them. 'We're all poachers turned gamekeepers,' he says. The reserve still needs all the friends it can get. DoC's Kapiti area manager lan Cooksley says he’s under no illusions about the level of poaching still going on there, which is now organised, professional and often gang-related. 'It’s past mum and dad out there with a rod not realising where they are,' he says. 'These people can be in and out with $30,000 worth of fish and paua.'
DAVE HANSFORD
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Forest and Bird, Issue 308, 1 May 2003, Page 14
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120A seahorse in the Kapiti Island Marine Reserve. Many locals gave up their fishing rights to Kapiti's waters to let the reserve go ahead. Chris Turver, one-time commodore of the Waikanae Boating Club and now a regional councillor, was one of them. 'We're all poachers turned gamekeepers,' he says. The reserve still needs all the friends it can get. DoC's Kapiti area manager lan Cooksley says he’s under no illusions about the level of poaching still going on there, which is now organised, professional and often gang-related. 'It’s past mum and dad out there with a rod not realising where they are,' he says. 'These people can be in and out with $30,000 worth of fish and paua.' DAVE HANSFORD Forest and Bird, Issue 308, 1 May 2003, Page 14
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