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Photograph of hundreds of īnanga/īnaka/whitebait caught in a whitebaiter’s net.

Whitebait – what happens to the ones that get away? 

Department of Conservation —  02/12/2025

Every whitebait season whitebait wriggle upstream – some destined for fritters, some as dinner for other native and non-native species. But what happens to those whitebait that get away?

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A cluster of tiny shortjaw kōkopu eggs on a leaf

Rats snapped devouring eggs of threatened fish 

Department of Conservation —  23/07/2024

The shock find came only days after the discovery of a cluster of shortjaw kōkopu eggs in the first ever documented ‘nest’ from Northland.

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