Fishing Report on Nirvana(?)
(Image above of severe rush hour traffic congestion on Taupahi Road outside TRM)
Recent magazine feature articles have examined population growth trends in NZ asking just how big is big enough? Quite right too. These include North & South magazine (available at TRM) and now growth is being questioned in an editorial in a fishing magazine? Now even anglers are concerned…
After watching NZ’s population double over the last 50 years SWMBO thinks She understands your deep concern. But what to do? Here we can offer TRM’s solution to the problem.
For anglers, and everyone else similarly confirms, all population growth has achieved is to double the problems, and halve the benefits.
i.e. the maximum daily catch reduced from 10 to 3.
DAILY BAG LIMIT
1926 – 25
1950 – 6
1953 – 8
1960 – no limit
1963 – 21
1971 – 10
1980 – 8
1991 – 3
2011 – ? (To be advised)
(See, this really is a fishing report…)
The bulging demographic profiles of cities and their lack of progress over the last hundred years – where quality of life has been compromised for growth and quality in anything replaced by quantity – makes everyone nervous about the future.
So this is a reminder from TRM that if you try you can still find Heaven on Earth.
You are so quick – I can see you have already selected the same location as us to achieve “Nirvana” (defined in my Reed dictionary as a state of extreme bliss or enlightenment).
TURANGI (Where else?)
How? Can you believe this is the only town which has reversed the national trend purely in the interests of anglers.
Turangi town centre was designed in the 1960′s to service a local resident population of up to 10,000. The peak population was 6,500 in the mid 1970′s. Since then it has fallen to less than half its peak.. In the last three census periods up to 2006 – over 15 years – the resident population fell 16%. In the same 15 year period the NZ population increased 19%.
According to SWMBO’s “new maths” arithmetic (She was a teacher), that places Turangi 35% behind the rest of NZ in population but 35% ahead in benefits.
(SWMBO believes there are three kinds of people in the world; those who are good at maths, and those who are not…)
So while the rest of the world struggles to keep pace with growth, congestion, pollution, traffic, overcrowding, we Turangians – the enlightened ones – have halved our population and doubled our benefits. Simple! Have a nice day….
Don’t believe us? Just test us and book now for a slice of Nirvana. But not next weekend as we are already booked out by disillusioned Jaffas (Just Another Friendly Fantastic Angler) fleeing the concrete jungle rat race traffic jams desperately seeking Nirvana.