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  Environmental group TIS which has long retained its position of condemning the "destructive" use of FADs in purse seining will also be using its local and international network to spread word about the protest march.
  "We've made our position very clear to government and will be there in support," says TIS technical manager Kelvin Passfield.
  "Government is worried they've got to this stage of almost finalising the agreement and there's so much opposition to it despite what they say about northern group support."
  "He even shied away from the first Grey Power protests and sent Richard Neves (former financial secretary) to talk to them. Even at parliament (presenting the petition), he let others do the talking".
  "Everyone has the absolute right under the Cook Islands constitution to make their views known and join the march," says Tuavera.
  "People are angry that government hasn't addressed the anti-purse seining petition, for 12 months it has sat in Parliament gathering dust because Puna is too cowardly to call Parliament to deal with it and other outstanding issues of the nation."
  He says the government keeps ignoring the wishes of the people and now the people are saying again in a third protest march, "we've had enough."