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WATERWAYS – Waterfront Business MOTUTAPU TUTURUATU RELEASE In brief… Classic boaties' weekend Battered dinghies, sleek cedar kayaks, power boating legends and clunky clinkers… hours of effort from "blokes in sheds" were displayed at Lake Rotoiti in the Nelson Lakes National Park on March 3 and 4 in a weekend of Glorious Hydromatic Relaxation at the 13th New Zealand Antique and Classic Boatshow. There were awards for best new restoration, best steamboat, best jet- propelled craft and best themed display. There were also races for yachts, row- boats, Seagull motored dinghies, poppers, canoes, child rowers, swimmers, and a longer race up the lake for non-planing hulls or motors 5hp and under. Owners just can't resist the opportunity to show off their boats – whether it's the sheen on a cedar deck or the finely polished brass on a 100-year-old propeller – the opportunity to compare and contrast and to swap stories with other like-minded boaties is a huge attraction. EDs and new Minister for the Environment The Environmental Defence Society says it welcomed the appointment of Amy Adams as Minister for the Environment. It was looking forward to working with her on the bill setting up a regulatory framework on oil, gas and mining in our EEZ and extended continental shelf; the review of section 6 and 7 of the Resource Management Act; the pending report of the Land and Water Forum; changes to local government responsibility and oceans reform. Milford Sound harbour upgrade starts Contractors working on a $6 million upgrade of Milford Sound's main harbour have started extending the harbour promenade, demolishing the existing breakwater, constructing the new breakwater 65m southward and dredging to enlarge the existing harbour. 550m3 of rock armour in the Department of Conservation borrow pit at Milford Sound is being used in the project. Contractors to the Milford Sound Development Authority include Smith and Crane Construction, Downer EDI, and the Invercargill-based company E Type Engineering, who will be constructing the new wharves at Fresh Water Basin. Existing wharves will be replaced by floating wharves and realigned. The programme has been timed to cause minimal disruption to visitors and operators at Milford Sound and is expected to be completed by August 31. 40 Professional Skipper May/June 2012 ON FEBRUARY 19, 17 New Zealand tuturuatu, the shore plover, were released by the Department of Conservation on Motutapu Island in the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park. This brings the total number of the critically endangered population to around 200 in the wild. Once widespread around the coast of the North and South Islands, the birds were wiped out on mainland New Zealand by Norway rats and feral cats, reducing the population to a single island, Rangatira, in the Chatham Islands, which is free of animal pests. Twenty years ago there were only 130 shore plover left, all living on Rangatira Island. In the early 1990s eggs from Rangatira were successfully hatched at the Pukaha Mount Bruce National Wildlife Centre in northern Wairarapa. This led to a captive breeding programme being established at the wildlife centre and the Isaac Conservation and Wildlife Trust at Peacock Springs in Christchurch, where Costamere results THE GREEK CONTAINERSHIP owner Costamere has reported $26.1 million in net income on voyage revenues of $102 million and posted an $11.8 million profit on revenues of $85.7 million in the same quarter of 2010. With an average of more than 48 vessels operating during the last quarter, Costamare's fleet expanded by 15 percent, while vessel operating expenses increased just 3.4 percent. Costamare has ordered 10 new ships and will take delivery shortly of a final pending second-hand vessel, the 4132teu MSC Ulsan, which was fixed to MSC for more than five years at a daily rate of $16,500. It has also recently scrapped several older box ships, most recently the 2922teu Garden for $6 million, which it delivered for demolition in December. Costamare has 15 vessels in its operational fleet free of debt and $153.2 million in undrawn credit facilities. Several of these ships may be included in a new $120 million credit facility. Costamare has now been publicly listed for more than a year, and recently filed a shelf registration with United States market authorities for up to $300 million in securities over the next three years. MORE COSTA CONCORDIA BODIES FOUND EIGHT MORE BODIES were found just hours after scaffolding had been set up at the wreck of the Costa Concordia to allow divers to continue searching the decks of the ship. Divers were thought to have pulled the bodies from deck four where passengers gathered once the decision was made to abandon ship. Five more bodies were found a few days later, bringing the total to 30 bodies recovered of 32 people missing from the January 13 tragedy when she sank off the Italian island of Giglio. Seven officials face charges of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck, and failure to notify maritime authorities. Three are managers of Costa Crociere: company vice president Ursprunger Manfred, the top emergency officer Roberto Ferrarini, and fleet superintendent Paolo Parodi, and four officers from the liner: Andrea Bongiovanni, Roberto Bosio, Silvia Coronica and Salvatore Ursino. They join Captain Francesco Schettino, who is under house arrest, and First Officer Ciro Ambrosio, who are facing charges of manslaughter and abandoning ship before all the passengers were evacuated. the 17 birds released today were bred. A further 15 tuturuatu bred at Pukaha Mt Bruce will be released on Motutapu in early March. DoC began moving captive bred shore plover onto islands to establish new populations in the wild in the mid-1990s. They are now living and breeding on Mana Island, north of Wellington, and on a privately owned island off the eastern coast of the North Island. PHOTO: BRIDGET WINSTONE