News & Updates
Kakahotoa Waterfall
Hi everyoneSome of you may have already seen our post on the "Eel Town" Facebook page but it is worth sharing again. eDNA has revealed NZ Longfin eels above this 50M water and has prompted quiet a bit of discussion. Unless transported by humans (unlikely in this...
Glenhope Culvert
Photos showing a nice build-up of bed-material in a newly installed culvert fitted with flexible baffles. School fundraising projects have numerous benefits to the school and the students involved in the process , to get more info you can visit this website. FYI site...
Fish In Culvert
Firstly it is great that we now have 500+ members of the Fish Passage email forum. In this short video Tim has captured how fish really struggle to swim up through culverts with smooth laminar flow. The adult Inanga (one of the galaxiid whitebait family) attempts to...
Bethell’s Beach
Here is Jordie going the extra mile to restore fish passage. The wonderful volunteers at Matuku Link and the Whitebait Connection Auckland team put their heads together and decided to fix a fish passage barrier on one of the Matuku Link walking tracks.The culprit... a...
Go The West Coast!
Happy to share that the West Coast (South Island NZ) has embarked on a fish passage remediation program beginning with road culverts. Tim Olley and Richard Nichol spent a couple of days near Reefton improving fish passage through culverts on the access road to...
Mussel-Rope Heads-Up
Many of you will be familiar with the use of mussel-rope to help improve fish passage over or through structures including culverts. The rope helps to reduce the water velocity adjacent to the rope and also gives a tactile surface for small fish to wriggle through or...