LegaSea communications adviser Chris Scott said the project couldn\u2019t run in Hawke\u2019s Bay without the help of current sponsors such as ITM Napier and Sustainable Hawke\u2019s Bay.<\/p>\n
But even with their help, there was a $15,000 hole in its finances. Without finding that money, the Kai Ika Project could not feed Hawke\u2019s Bay communities for free.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is people that are going to be missing out, they rely on this food now for their weekly dinners. So, we\u2019re going to be taking that off their plates, which is a real bummer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scott said the project was always going to be running at a deficit, but it was never about money; it was about removing waste and feeding people.<\/p>\n
The Kai Ika Project\u2019s fish comes from Star Foods in Napier and Saltwater Seafoods in Hastings. Scott said those businesses were cutting into their sales by providing the fish.<\/p>\n
Chris Scott (inset) and a load of fish heads and frames set to be given away by the Kai Ika Project. Composite image<\/p>\n
The fish heads and frames still have meat and nourishment on them and would otherwise go into fertiliser or fishmeal for animal feed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s not a bad outcome,\u201d said Scott.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut that means more carbon emissions from the breakdown of the materials, whereas eating that meat cuts that out and feeds people.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said LegaSea\u2019s goals included getting rid of bottom trawling, dredging and seine fishing, which he called destructive fishing techniques.<\/p>\n
He admitted that much of the fish given away by the Kai Ika Project was caught using those techniques.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it\u2019s been caught, and it\u2019s either going to be wasted or it can go to feed people.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s where we\u2019ve all found this real common ground where we can be like, \u2018Hey, look, it doesn\u2019t matter how it\u2019s caught, it\u2019s been caught.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s better for it to go to people to feed families than it is to go to fertiliser or fish meal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scott also pointed to the cost of fishing, saying Kai Ika got fresh fish to people without the massive costs of fuel, bait and boats.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then you\u2019re not guaranteed a catch.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt least this is a way of us putting it on the plates of people that really have depended on fish their whole lives.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d hate to see it go down.\u201d<\/p>\n
Any businesses interested in sponsoring the Kai Ika Project are encouraged to get in touch with Scott through the project\u2019s Facebook page<\/a> or through LegaSea<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jack Riddell is a multimedia journalist with Hawke\u2019s Bay Today and has worked in radio and media in the UK, Germany, and New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LegaSea communications adviser Chris Scott said the project couldn\u2019t run in Hawke\u2019s Bay without the help of current…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1561,3595,18399,17163,6119,564,1874,56816,2219,1976,91454,141,117,111,43,139,69,9527,3263,91455,6041,1339],"class_list":{"0":"post-133401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-bay","9":"tag-by","10":"tag-christmas","11":"tag-closure","12":"tag-faces","13":"tag-food","14":"tag-found","15":"tag-giveaway","16":"tag-gone","17":"tag-hawkes","18":"tag-ika","19":"tag-kai","20":"tag-new","21":"tag-new-zealand","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-newzealand","24":"tag-nz","25":"tag-programme","26":"tag-project","27":"tag-sponsor","28":"tag-weekly","29":"tag-without"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}