Recreation fishery
Sir, —Your article on an American tourist consultant, Chris Child, presents a point of view at one end of the spectrum. Certainly we are well endowed with natural assets, and a sports fishery (albeit based on nonnative exotic species, trout and salmon). However, reasoned middle-of-the-road management attitudes and policies towards natural resource use and protection are as short in this article as they are in today’s New Zealand society. A classic one-eyed statement so typical of the shallowness of environmental logic of today was this quote: "Dams are a band-aid solution to long-term energy needs. They have a finite life, they shingle and silt up, and their life is limited.” What then does he propose — nuclear power, fossil fuels, or hectares of solar panels covering valuable topsoil and relying on extensive heavy metal processing? — Yours, etc.,
MICHAEL ORCHARD. April 18, 1987.
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