In it's upper reaches The Mataura is a fine fly-fishing river.
Here, in Mataura, it is constrained and polluted by a meat processing plant on one side and a now defunct paper-mill on the other.
Slowly the land & ground water is being poisoned by dairy farm run-off. Now the land is being sold to overseas buyers.
Kiwi's will end up as landless tennants buying their food from overseas supermarket conglomerates.