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 call for help to the public for any whitebait catcher diaries they may have, regardless of condition.
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Freshwater Ranger Suze Harris is based in Hokitika and studies migratory galaxiids on the West Coast. Here she explains a summary of what whitebait grow up into, and what habitats you can find them in.
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Most culverts have been designed to move water efficiently rather than for ecological reasons. That’s why our native freshwater fish need more help to get to habitat upstream.
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Four out of six whitebait species are threatened with extinction. Helen Ough Dealy finds out how rangers on riverbanks, small planes, and the whitebaiters themselves are helping protect our national taonga.
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