Seaport Scene Issue #326

The Faces Behind the Festival

The Picton Maritime Festival has become a welcomed annual tradition in Marlborough since the first one in 2005. Much is made of the amazing entertainment, stalls and activities that make the day hugely successful, but without the enormous amount of work the volunteers put in every year, the event could not go ahead.
Read the full story in issue 326 on the back page...

Other Stories in This Issue

• Captains Table
• Blue Cod Survey
• Pair Charged with Picton Murder
• Superyacht Thalia in Waikawa
• Picton Beaches Closed for Swimming
• Lightning Starts Bush Fire
• Spot the knot
• Competition Time!
• Seaport Classifieds
• Cruise Ship Schedule
• Screening of King Salmon Documentary
• Tide Tables
• Windy Weekend Sinks Half and Half
• The last of the Mohua
• Marlborough's Summer Explorer Programme
• Colin's Column - Positive Change Waits in the Wings
• Background to Anadarko Permits
• Seaport Happenings
• Seen on the Scene
• Reflections from Picton Museum: Pelorus Jack
• Library Lines
• Quotes of the Week
• On The Beat with Constable Newcombe
• Kaipupu Point Pestival
• Five Fox Facts
• Echo Gets a Makeover
• Vegan Recipes With James Wilson
• Travel Chat with Juanita Smart,
• Scoop’s Sports with Sam Swain
• New Coach for Waitohi Premier Team
• Lawson’s Dry Hills 2013 Regatta –
• Overall Series Results
• Picton Maritime Festival Committee

Get your copy of the Seaport Scene at one of the following outlets:

Picton: The Seaport Scene Office, FreshChoice, Take Note, Healthcare Pharmacy, Picton Library, On The Spot, Challenge Service Station, Picton Four Square

Blenheim: Perry's Book Shop

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Seaport Scene Issue 325

Huge Crowd on the Foreshore Welcomes 2013

Other Stories in This Issue

• Captains Table
• Free Picton Wifi up and running
• Holiday Incidents
• Michael Hopkins, ex QCC Pupil, Drowned
• Hank Found
• Spot the knot
• Swimming and Boat Safety
• Tide Tables
• Fishing Rules in The Sounds
• Maud Island Tours 2013
• Marlborough's Summer Explorer Programme
• Performing Arts & Street Theatre Festival at Nelson Square
• Te Atiawa Settlement
• Seaport Happenings
• Seen on the Scene
• Reflections from Picton Museum: Tory Channel
• New Years Resolutions!
• Writers Corner: New Years Resolutions Quotes
• Joseph Says Merry Christmas to his Family 
• Five Fox Facts
• Christmas Dinner at Picton R.S.A. and Club
• New Mower for Papatuanuku Residents
• The best thing about Christmas 2012 was...
• Picton Art on Display
• Marlborough Creative Artisans in Mariners Mall
• Travel Chat
• Vegan Recipes - With James Wilson
• Seaport Scene talks with James Reid

Get your copy of the Seaport Scene at one of the following outlets:

Picton: The Seaport Scene Office, FreshChoice, Take Note, Healthcare Pharmacy, Picton Library, On The Spot, Challenge Service Station, Picton Four Square

Blenheim: Perry's Book Shop

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Seaport Scene Issue 324

EPA Draft Approves More Farms for King Salmon

The Environmental Protection Agency released its draft report and decision of the board, on the New Zealand King Salmon application for nine more salmon farms in the Marlborough Sounds, on Thursday 20 December.

The draft approves the plan change and resource consent application for four farms and declines the other five.

The result has bought feelings of disappointment to those both for and against the application, which was hotly contested during the hearing, from 27 August to 18 October this year.

CEO of NZKS Grant Rosewarne says, “All could have benefited so much more had we been granted additional space.”

Mr Rosewarne says the company believes commerce and conservation can live together and that the Sounds can easily support what the company had planned.

He continues, “But too often in New Zealand commerce is pitted against conservation in an adversarial way that prevents regions achieving benefits from their natural advantages. As a nation we must find a way to view development as not being contrary to environmental objectives.”

Read the full story in Issue 324

Other Stories in This Issue

• Miss Claus's Table
• Clifford Bay Public Meetings
• Picton Business Group Meeting on Clifford Bay
• Animal Control Chairman laments number of dogs being destroyed
• Spot the knot
• Competition Time!
• Cruise Ship Schedule
• More Good News Offshore
• New Marlborough Experience Launched
• Tide Tables
• Marlborough's Summer Explorer Programme
• Join Relay for Life!
• New Chairman for Sounds Restoration
• New Line Up For Destination Marlborough Trust Board
• Kaipupu News
• Boat Santa Continues
• Bugler Family Wins Hamper
• Seaport Happenings
• Seen on the Scene
• Reflections from Picton Museum: Cullensville
• Library Lines
• On The Beat with Constable Newcombe
• Picton Woman Awarded for Assistance During Christchurch Quakes
• Books for History Lovers
• Writers’ Corner - School Project: A Narrative "I heard a whisper, but no-one was there."
• Top NZ Artists Team up to Aid National Whale Centre
• Vegan Cooking - Some Favourite Recipes
• QCC Celebrates Achievement
• Picton School Awards
• Waikawa Bay School Picnic
• Model Railway Donated
• Travel Chat
• Picton's Community Radio Station, Trax FM 107.1

Get your copy of the Seaport Scene at one of the following outlets:

Picton: The Seaport Scene Office, FreshChoice, Take Note, Healthcare Pharmacy, Picton Library, On The Spot, Challenge Service Station, Picton Four Square

Blenheim: Perry's Book Shop

Don't forget:

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