The Disappearance of Elisa Lam

The City Council, the City of Christchurch, has come up with the idea of releasing partially treated sewage into the ocean. This is all a result of this Bromley wastewater mess. Of course, the concern is over aquaculture, potential and norovirus outbreaks, been winters as Director of the Roman New Zealand and aquaculture New Zealand member and is with us. Good morning to you. Good morning, Mike. This is animals. This is animals for people though, isn't it? I mean, if you're in Bromley and you put up with a stench for months on end, you're sick about, you'd probably go with the sewage in the water, wouldn't you? Mike, first things, thanks for having me on the show. I would be putting my hand up, being a local resident. I mean, obviously we're in the Bromley area as well. Yeah, look, I can feel for the discontent residents. As I say, we've got our factory, we're employing 65 locally. We do put up with that stench as well. Unfortunately, Bromley has been tagged with that odor for some time, but does, you know, by pumping sewage, raw sewage, is it going to be treated into Pegasus Bay? Is that the answer? Is that just going to cause another major issue? And of course, with green lip muscles on our doorstep and our backyard, which would potentially become very contaminated? Does it depend in any way, shape or form, how they do it, treated partially treated, how much, etc. Or not? To be honest, we don't want to see any sewage in any form filtered, plurin, you know, it does not need to go into Pegasus Bay. This could be a national disaster. National culture is a big part of our primary industry and to see just to turn the taps on would be economic disaster. And when we say aquaculture, so when you say green lip muscles, this is farmed muscles, this is not just the natural habitat per se. No, Mike, we've got eight farms in the surrounding Bank Spanitula, ranging from Fort Levy right through to Menges Bay, Swally Bay, so we've got eight farms in the area. So approximately one year we can harvest up to 2,000 tonnes of live muscles. So aquaculture, but all sites build into the fishing industry as well. I mean, little tin is littered with fishing boats going out daily. So look at that's affected then, it's going to spill into the fishing industry as well. What about the business of look they did at Moa Point? I mean, I know, not deliberately, but nevertheless, is there a difference between Pegasus and the Cooks straight in terms of how the nature would deal with it? With the obviously Cooks straight to large area, we were in a very congested area. I mean, Pegasus Bay is right on a doorstep, only a few kilometres away. They're coming up with these scientific theories. We're the current's going to go, but we're in Christchurch. We get the predominant easily won, so of course, we're right in the firing line of the Pegasus Bay outlet. Where does this go? I mean, is this going to happen or are we still in the throws, scrapping about it? Yeah, good question, Mike. Look, we only just heard about it like late last week. Is it going to happen? Yes, is the bequestion mark we've invited Phil to come and see us personally. We'd love to take him through our new factory. We're just invested in, we've got our new muscle boats. We'd love Phil to come out and taste the fresh, green-lit muscles, which we do with our clients on a regular basis. So look, it's all here, say at the moment, but obviously this is our main bread and butter. We got pretty stirred up, so I got pretty active on the media channels over the weekend, and I'd appreciate the time, and I'm pretty sure this will never happen. I wish you will. So, don't touch bin winters and Phil's a good guy, Phil Bing, the mirror crush, you know, Phil major. Of course, I've been winters out of him, he's director of a Roman New Zealand.