1: John Nailer cooks up whitebait caught in the Okuru River at the Haast White­bait Festival. 4: Justine Mills, with grand­daughter Maddison Cooper, does not accept Okuru River whitebait are threatened. PHOTOS: MARK PRICEIt is an awkward question to take to a whitebait festival. "Not even the people who think whitebait are endangered think the inanga is endangered, so the whitebait season is based around that. Ms Mills said she, along with the majority of whitebaiters, believed the Labour Government wanted to get rid of whitebaiters.

Source: Otago Daily Times October 06, 2019 18:33 UTC