Hi everyone,

I am currently undertaking an ecological assessment to inform Wellington Water's integrated catchment management planning (ICMP) process. I am interested in the Evans Bay and SE Coast areas (think all areas discharging to Evans Bay - Hataitai, Kilbirnie and the entire Mirimar Pensinula). Like most urban areas most waterways have been piped such that now open waterways are scarce and those that remain are often high up the catchment and/or ephemeral or just seeps. I am interested in any freshwater ecological information (fish or invertebrates) from these catchments. There are no NZ Freshwater Fish Database records from this area. The only fish info I have uncovered thus far is an anecdotal report of eels being present in a heavily modified waterway in the Miramar Golf Course.

Have any native fish enthusiasts had a hunt in any of the waterways in this area? If so, I would like to know where you went and what did you find.

Thanks,

Alex

 

This might be too late to be useful, but there are banded kokopu in the waterways of Ataturk Park and Mapuia Park. I believe there is Koura in Mapuia park too