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A Hector’s dolphin killed by a fishing net is laid to rest near Karitāne, on the North Otago coast. It’s not the first Hector’s dolphin the Kāti Huirapa rūnanga have had to bury in these dunes. A 2019 report estimated, based on modelling, that 58 of these dolphins are killed in commercial fishing nets each year.
For some, this dead animal is a symbol of everything that’s wrong with New Zealand’s fisheries management. For others, she represents a tragic but unavoidable loss on a busy coast where fishing and dolphins intersect. To the people of Kāti Huirapa ki Puketeraki, whose ancestors lived alongside Hector’s dolphins for centuries, and whose wharenui is fronted by an exact, exquisite replica of one that washed up when the meeting house was being carved, she’s an old friend who’s been away, come home at last.
Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue: 183 September / October 2023.
Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-special-case-of-our-smallest-dolphins/
Photograph Richard Robinson © 2023.
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THE SPECIAL CASE OF OUR SMALLEST DOLPHINS
A Hector’s dolphin killed by a fishing net is laid to rest near Karitāne, on the North Otago coast. It’s not the first Hector’s dolphin the Kāti Huirapa rūnanga have had to bury in these dunes. A 2019 report estimated, based on modelling, that 58 of these dolphins are killed in commercial fishing nets each year.<br /> For some, this dead animal is a symbol of everything that’s wrong with New Zealand’s fisheries management. For others, she represents a tragic but unavoidable loss on a busy coast where fishing and dolphins intersect. To the people of Kāti Huirapa ki Puketeraki, whose ancestors lived alongside Hector’s dolphins for centuries, and whose wharenui is fronted by an exact, exquisite replica of one that washed up when the meeting house was being carved, she’s an old friend who’s been away, come home at last.<br /> Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue: 183 September / October 2023.<br /> Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-special-case-of-our-smallest-dolphins/<br /> Photograph Richard Robinson © 2023.<br /> Rights managed image. No Reproduction without prior written permission.