Discarded fish waste riles local fisherman

DUMPED: Discarded marine fish carcasses left in the Waiohine River.

A trout fisherman is disgusted people are dumping carcasses of marine fish in a local river.

The man, who wanted to remain anonymous, came across a quantity of dumped fish heads and bodies on Sunday evening while fly-fishing on the Waiohine River, a kilometre downstream from SH2.

"I suspect it's recreational anglers," he said.

"Why do they have to do it?

"It wasn't a lot of product, but couldn't they afford to dump the fish [properly]?

"If they have got enough money to put petrol in a boat, then surely they have enough money to put it in a rubbish bag and take it to a dump."

He described the dumping as "gross laziness" and "pathetic".

"When river levels are going to drop and kids are swimming there.

"If I had spotted the bugger, I would've had words."