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  1. I spoke to a specialist on this at the Boat Show today. He is AC's Biosecurity guy. Incidentally he was the guy that kicked off the issues with needing to keep The Landing open to provide biosecurity capability. He couldn't say anything on that as he's been gagged. I shook his hand anyway. I challenged him on how it got here and the allegation that yachts spread it. He believes it is most likely that it got into NZ as an aquarium plant. It is very popular in aquariums as the fish don't eat it. On shipping, he says that is unlikely, as ballast water is now filtered, both on intake and disc
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  2. Caulerpa sounds like it could be a significant threat but thus far my only real education on the subject has been my google searches, that's not good enough. Which agency is meant to educate and raise awareness of Caulerpa, because they are doing a pretty poor job. Most boaties are environmentally sensitive enough to take real responsibility regardless of the rules. Also it appear that fanworm program suffers the same problems, but these agencies are looking to lay blame on yachties for transporting it around but are ok with Auckland marinas having no requirement to control it. Furthermore
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  3. What’s the chance of finding some 888 wreckage nearby ?
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  4. Many of you here will remember Rigger from this forum. Rigger worked as a tug boat captain at port of Tauranga. He sadly passed away last year from Parkinson's Disease. A new pilot boat has been named the Troy Evans, in honor of Rigger. It arrived today in Nelson from Melbourne, on route to Tauranga. I thought it was a nice acknowledgement of Rigger, naming the new boat after him, and that you would like to know.
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