March 25, 2026 • 7 mins
Wal looks at fishery levels in Foveaux Strait and he thinks that oyster levels are improving from previous seasons.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Just as the muster on Hakanuie Warren Ross farms up
at wait Moomoo cropping operation. He's dry stock and he's
got a few deer running around not far away from
the rut if it hasn't started already. Well, good afternoon,
hews things.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah, Andy and lost us Yeah, no, good, good things Eddie.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
How are you getting through March? Ok? With this warmouth
or dryer spell of weather of space?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
You know this march has been truly well actually, so
we after your farmers. They've got stags like they have
a nice dry, mild autumn for the for the for
the rup so yeah, know, so it's it's all good.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So the stags have started being grumpy.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Oh no, yeah, they've been probably roaring away for about
three weeks now. So so when you're driving around the
farm and and eggs are out with the hinds and
yeah there's the odd one that comes out at you
towards towards Yes, so no, they're certainly doing the job.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Are they just built differently? Stags? Is that just the
way they operate at this time of year? They just
want to kill anything and everything that comes near them.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, one every same days. So it's just a natural
thing that happens every every every every year, every autumnce
and that's every stake throughunt the world. I guess, you know,
it's just could be mindful and careful when you're getting
around the place.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Geez, have you have you have you ever had any
close runnings?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Not particularly No, no, it should have been quite lucky
over the years. So there has been people get hurt
and loots written off of the four wheelers smashed and
over over the over the last few years. So it
does happen occasionally.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, it's a great case of prevention over cure like anything.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I suppose you know, absolutely so now it's that's yeahs
just one of the things you to be really careful.
So I haven't heard anything hit me for a long
time to be piercer. Nos, yeah, but the steaks do
you get grumpy?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So the weather conditions of this time of year pretty
much what you want.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Oh no, absolutely, you've got got them nice warm days
to day is a get We have a caller, but a
not skin caller. Sorry, but now it's yeah, we have
a rain every now, I mean, and plenty of temperature
well twenty degrees this last week must day, so it's yeah, No,
it's really good autumn.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So you're still experiencing reasonable growth.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah, absolutely, So the family is looking pretty good, a
plenty your feet in front of everything, so no, it's yeah,
that's good.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
We've done well to get your thirst on and feel
is probably the other concern give them, what's going on
in the Middle East? Have you given much thought to
this at all? Well?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Us and though to be there, it's the price is well,
the prices of price, but it's more or less if
they if they run short of of fuel and put
us from the restings will be every more of a
challenging as far as I'm sern, business as usual. But
as I say, we've got all their third on and
now we're just in cruise mode really so even the
(02:51):
trickers are rolling around, trucks arendering much so it's just
taking along slowly, itchly.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So how are you want to crops looking at the
moment if it's been a bit warmer, as a few
more bugs around, We.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Haven't actually noticed any bugs at all, so and all
the cow crop king crop crops are looking really good,
so you know, and the cow has taken along quite nicely.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Is there an expectation as to what you want your
kale to weigh.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Not really to be here any We planned their cow
a bit heavier, thicker, sorry, so it doesn't get the
thick stalks for the dear to eat. So and we
just we just eat it and then big blade to
the to the honds when when they're done, so that
they're not right through at all. Very October or something
that anyhow, so we don't get hang up on on
(03:44):
on crop white at all too much.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Now we spoke about this not that long ago. Well,
but we'll just go back there again today. The situation
regarding the oyster beds, the Bluff Seafood Festival, Oyster Festival,
there is these a chance oysters might not be available.
Who can I tell who seafood they've canceled the twenty
six oyster harvest. Is it that bad?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Well, I'm not too sure, to be fair. There's probably
people out there that know more than what I do.
But just from my experience diving back in early March,
they are definitely better than last year and the amount
of spat so that's juvenile watches that live on the
orster's shells. But there's a hell of a lot of
spat on there that that you're taking off or throwing back.
(04:29):
So yeah, with the fingers crossed, I think it would
be it's not batter shape. But yeah, as I say,
the commercial guys will know more than what I do.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Even nonetheless, you seem to be out there pretty regularly,
so you'll have a good gauge on the situation on imagine.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, well, as I'll say, it was just just from
where we were diving over its to Ireland that there
are certainly better than what they have been for the
last couple years. And this always has to be a
positive thing. And yeah, so I haven't heard too much
with what the commercial guys have been thinking and saying.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
So perhaps a bit of I don't know, a bit
of alluland fishing there for oysters for a season. Do
you think that comes under the equation or that be
pretty reactive?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Well, I think it probably wouldn't be a stupid idea,
to be honest, just to even close it down for
a year or two, just to see what happens, and
I hopefully they'll come back. But yeah, that's that's not
that's not for me to decide. Ideo that's a.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Blue card numbers though, because repeeding on who you speak to,
these are changing. What have you seen?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Well, I regu it's been proving over the last couple
of years. So we're we got to shut on every
year in March in particularly, and yeah, the last two years,
three years, it says he's been pretty good blue cotting,
So the previous years prior to that, we're struggling. So
it sort of comes and goes away bit, and I
feel I feel the stretch probably temperature as we have
a cooler whether it's a degree colder. I don't know
(05:47):
whether it's changed or not, but I certainly felt that
when I was diving down in the water. The sees yeah,
so whether the stretch changing in temperature a little bit
and warming and cold and cooler and warm and cooler
and whatever. So yeah, I feel the blue cording was
just just as good as this year. He has been
for a few years. Really, sir. I guess it just.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Depends you talk to sex middle wet suit when you
go down.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I've got I have a new wet suits, so well
it's one of those winnies, so it's uh, it was
five in six I think, so five five top six bottoms,
so don thing nothing compared to what we used to
run in the house even nol sir. Yeah, that's for
the culture this year. For some reason, when.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You are diving down to those depths, so with a
wet suit on, it doesn't matter what you're wearing, you
still feel the cold.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
The rule you shouldn't you should be should be comfortable.
But he just does. I was saying just this particular year,
I was got cold for some reason and it wasn't
anyone complaining about its interest. Glittering times are right.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So it's not just the fact of getting older.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Quite possibly, maybe it could be there to any I
don't know, fair.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Enough, well, I will let you carry your mate, always
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, I're going to go any.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Warren Ross's based at way Moomoy, the fisheries in Stuart Island.
The situation around the Oyster Festival, possibility of a lack
of oysters, it's going to be interesting happen. Next will
be for the New Zealand Lucy Coleburn before the end
of the hour, Logan Savree and as well Alan McCleary
of Sherwell, New Zealand,
Just as the muster on Hakanuie Warren Ross farms up
at wait Moomoo cropping operation. He's dry stock and he's
got a few deer running around not far away from
the rut if it hasn't started already. Well, good afternoon,
hews things.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah, Andy and lost us Yeah, no, good, good things Eddie.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
How are you getting through March? Ok? With this warmouth
or dryer spell of weather of space?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
You know this march has been truly well actually, so
we after your farmers. They've got stags like they have
a nice dry, mild autumn for the for the for
the rup so yeah, know, so it's it's all good.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So the stags have started being grumpy.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Oh no, yeah, they've been probably roaring away for about
three weeks now. So so when you're driving around the
farm and and eggs are out with the hinds and
yeah there's the odd one that comes out at you
towards towards Yes, so no, they're certainly doing the job.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Are they just built differently? Stags? Is that just the
way they operate at this time of year? They just
want to kill anything and everything that comes near them.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, one every same days. So it's just a natural
thing that happens every every every every year, every autumnce
and that's every stake throughunt the world. I guess, you know,
it's just could be mindful and careful when you're getting
around the place.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Geez, have you have you have you ever had any
close runnings?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Not particularly No, no, it should have been quite lucky
over the years. So there has been people get hurt
and loots written off of the four wheelers smashed and
over over the over the last few years. So it
does happen occasionally.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, it's a great case of prevention over cure like anything.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I suppose you know, absolutely so now it's that's yeahs
just one of the things you to be really careful.
So I haven't heard anything hit me for a long
time to be piercer. Nos, yeah, but the steaks do
you get grumpy?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So the weather conditions of this time of year pretty
much what you want.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Oh no, absolutely, you've got got them nice warm days
to day is a get We have a caller, but a
not skin caller. Sorry, but now it's yeah, we have
a rain every now, I mean, and plenty of temperature
well twenty degrees this last week must day, so it's yeah, No,
it's really good autumn.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So you're still experiencing reasonable growth.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah, absolutely, So the family is looking pretty good, a
plenty your feet in front of everything, so no, it's yeah,
that's good.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
We've done well to get your thirst on and feel
is probably the other concern give them, what's going on
in the Middle East? Have you given much thought to
this at all? Well?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Us and though to be there, it's the price is well,
the prices of price, but it's more or less if
they if they run short of of fuel and put
us from the restings will be every more of a
challenging as far as I'm sern, business as usual. But
as I say, we've got all their third on and
now we're just in cruise mode really so even the
(02:51):
trickers are rolling around, trucks arendering much so it's just
taking along slowly, itchly.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So how are you want to crops looking at the
moment if it's been a bit warmer, as a few
more bugs around, We.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Haven't actually noticed any bugs at all, so and all
the cow crop king crop crops are looking really good,
so you know, and the cow has taken along quite nicely.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Is there an expectation as to what you want your
kale to weigh.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Not really to be here any We planned their cow
a bit heavier, thicker, sorry, so it doesn't get the
thick stalks for the dear to eat. So and we
just we just eat it and then big blade to
the to the honds when when they're done, so that
they're not right through at all. Very October or something
that anyhow, so we don't get hang up on on
(03:44):
on crop white at all too much.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Now we spoke about this not that long ago. Well,
but we'll just go back there again today. The situation
regarding the oyster beds, the Bluff Seafood Festival, Oyster Festival,
there is these a chance oysters might not be available.
Who can I tell who seafood they've canceled the twenty
six oyster harvest. Is it that bad?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Well, I'm not too sure, to be fair. There's probably
people out there that know more than what I do.
But just from my experience diving back in early March,
they are definitely better than last year and the amount
of spat so that's juvenile watches that live on the
orster's shells. But there's a hell of a lot of
spat on there that that you're taking off or throwing back.
(04:29):
So yeah, with the fingers crossed, I think it would
be it's not batter shape. But yeah, as I say,
the commercial guys will know more than what I do.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Even nonetheless, you seem to be out there pretty regularly,
so you'll have a good gauge on the situation on imagine.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, well, as I'll say, it was just just from
where we were diving over its to Ireland that there
are certainly better than what they have been for the
last couple years. And this always has to be a
positive thing. And yeah, so I haven't heard too much
with what the commercial guys have been thinking and saying.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
So perhaps a bit of I don't know, a bit
of alluland fishing there for oysters for a season. Do
you think that comes under the equation or that be
pretty reactive?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Well, I think it probably wouldn't be a stupid idea,
to be honest, just to even close it down for
a year or two, just to see what happens, and
I hopefully they'll come back. But yeah, that's that's not
that's not for me to decide. Ideo that's a.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Blue card numbers though, because repeeding on who you speak to,
these are changing. What have you seen?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Well, I regu it's been proving over the last couple
of years. So we're we got to shut on every
year in March in particularly, and yeah, the last two years,
three years, it says he's been pretty good blue cotting,
So the previous years prior to that, we're struggling. So
it sort of comes and goes away bit, and I
feel I feel the stretch probably temperature as we have
a cooler whether it's a degree colder. I don't know
(05:47):
whether it's changed or not, but I certainly felt that
when I was diving down in the water. The sees yeah,
so whether the stretch changing in temperature a little bit
and warming and cold and cooler and warm and cooler
and whatever. So yeah, I feel the blue cording was
just just as good as this year. He has been
for a few years. Really, sir. I guess it just.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Depends you talk to sex middle wet suit when you
go down.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I've got I have a new wet suits, so well
it's one of those winnies, so it's uh, it was
five in six I think, so five five top six bottoms,
so don thing nothing compared to what we used to
run in the house even nol sir. Yeah, that's for
the culture this year. For some reason, when.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You are diving down to those depths, so with a
wet suit on, it doesn't matter what you're wearing, you
still feel the cold.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
The rule you shouldn't you should be should be comfortable.
But he just does. I was saying just this particular year,
I was got cold for some reason and it wasn't
anyone complaining about its interest. Glittering times are right.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So it's not just the fact of getting older.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Quite possibly, maybe it could be there to any I
don't know, fair.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Enough, well, I will let you carry your mate, always
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, I're going to go any.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Warren Ross's based at way Moomoy, the fisheries in Stuart Island.
The situation around the Oyster Festival, possibility of a lack
of oysters, it's going to be interesting happen. Next will
be for the New Zealand Lucy Coleburn before the end
of the hour, Logan Savree and as well Alan McCleary
of Sherwell, New Zealand,
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