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Will Appelbe has upset a rural Canterbury town after he blinded their prized salmon statue. The Greenpeace freshwater activist covered the salmon’s eyes with double sided tape and paper and left a pointed message saying, “Fonterra killed my family.”

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In a small South Island rural town, tempers are fraying after an act of eco vandalism blinded a prized salmon.

Yes, you read that correctly – a salmon.

Standing in the centre of Rakaia, 50 minutes south of Christchurch, the giant fibreglass salmon statue has long been a landmark denoting the fish’s importance in the braided river that borders the town.

Except there’s not many salmon left in the Rakaia River – leading to a popular annual fishing competition to announce it would no longer involve any fishing last week.

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