Plan could prohibit best gameshooting on lake
Gameshooters and the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society are concerned that some of the best shooting on Lake Ellesmere could be prohibited by the proposed management plan for the Yair’s Hat Wildlife Reserve.
The secretary of the society, Mr Brian Webb, said the draft plan, prepared by the former Wildlife Service, proposed to develop a walkway and reserve area between Wolffes Road and the L2 River.
“This would wipe a traditional shooting stand, and knock out about a
third of the 90 miamias in the area,” Mr Webb said.
The plan proposed closing the walkway during May and June to allow shooting, on the condition that a wildlife refuge be established on an area east of the flat, between Embankment Road and Jarvis Road. . “We do not see this as an acceptable trade-off because there are more than 50 miamias in the proposed refuge area,” Mr Webb said. It was also difficult to establish how many shooters would be affected, because they did
not all build miamias. The land concerned is part of 283 hectares bought by the society "and the Government in 1977. The society paid 70 per cent of the cost, and the Government, 30 per cent "It is officially Crown land, ahd the chief priority was to preserve it for sportsmen’s use. People have been shooting there for more than 100 years, and the wading birds are not being chased away, nor are the birdwatchers affected.”
Mr Webb accepted the statutory requirement for a management plan but said the society was “a bit
annoyed at the partisan way it had been drafted.” The society met the Wildlife Service earlier in the year and "agreed to differ” on a number of key points in the plan.
"In our submission on the plan we are virtually saying we want the status quo to remain.” Submissions were due by the end of the month. The society will hold a meeting on May 27 for members to discuss the issue. Conservation Department officers concerned with the plan were unavailable for comment yesterday.
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