Maui Dolphin Sighted.

First healthy Maui Dolphin been sighted of the Taranaki coast in twenty years might be a common sight in our waters in the future. As it was back in the 50s 60s and 70s. Not because of the governments threat Management Plans or for the demise of local commercial fisherman. But because our Taranaki marine waters are now a lot less polluted. The Maui Dolphin disappeared from our waters at the height of the former Ivon Watkins Dow Chemical Plant now AgroSciences at Paritutu disposing at the time of its chemical waste unchecked out onto back beach and through our cities sewers out onto the Taranaki coastline, the Maui Dolphins former marine habitat and breeding grounds. New studies now show that most New Zealand human cancers had also developed greatly in the same high chemical exposure period some 30 to 40 years ago. Not only from chemical waste, but from the raw product the chemicals themselves that were sprayed and used the length and breath of the whole country. We have learn't nothing though. The country is about to embark on yet another environmental disaster in Taranaki, Sand Mining the Taranaki coastline. The Maui Dolphin will have little chance of recovery along with many other Taranaki coastal marine species Sand Mining of the Taranaki coast will inevitably make them all extinct.

Rusty Kane
New Plymouth