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Found it on the Edge Northland Community Notices section. "The Mangamuka Pig Hunting contest is on again this Labour Weekend supporting Kaitaia Hospice and there are great prizes to be won for Pigs, Possums, Eels and even a bounty for the most Magpies! Tickets are only $35 and available by calling 021 0731 709." http://www.theedge.co.nz/Northland-Comm ... z3GRVBxGKx Now to figure out best approach for bad press. Unfortunately it's not a legal but a moral thing.

Outside working hours by phone at the moment. I've flicked them an email, if no reply I'll try phone again Monday.

Can you recall which radio station you were listening to ? if you can, I'll phone them and find out who the advertiser was.

This was on TV3 news tonight for anyone interested. http://www.3news.co.nz/Doc-go-electric-fishing-to-save-a-species/tabid/1160/articleID/197318/Default.aspx

I didn't seem to have much trouble finding them in streams such as the one in the video which is at Lookout Bay, just a few minutes from the station, which were small, not fast running and with a canopy of draco. Streams such as Tucker stream going into Tucker Cove which is fast flowing, a lot wider and only tussock along the edges with no draco canopy, I didn't see any out in the open, but a net found them under the tussock edge. I did three trips to Campbell when I worked for the MetService so had plenty of time to have a play down there.

No, we didn't have any aquariums set up down there. Just caught one and put it in a glass container for about 10 minutes so I could get a decent look at it. Found Koaro in most streams going into Perserverance Harbour and NE Harbour but none on the other side of the island at NW Bay. Not sure why.

Since the subject of Koaro came up, thought I'd put this up. Video I took at Campbell Island of the only known freshwater fish species there. Everyone else goes photographing albatross etc, I go fossicking through the draco looking for fish ? Tried to brighten the video up a bit as it's dark under the draco and the water is 'tea' coloured from draining through the peat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1TwwJmo5AY

More Mozzyfish info here, also Leopardfish from its start in a water trough near Whangarei. http://www.niwa.cri.nz/rc/freshwater/fi ... squitofish http://www.niwa.cri.nz/rc/freshwater/fi ... ther#caudo

Not protected at all. There may be some local regs such as mentioned for Taupo but there is a catch limit of 50 per day with no size limit for personal consumption.

Hi Owen This is where the video I posted earlier came from, end of Le Roy Stream in Little Shoal Bay. I had a few looks through there, infested with mosquito fish in the swampy areas. That red stuff in the stream few years back came from excavations when they put in the big block of apartments up the top there in Hinemoa Street. Mike

Parrotfish are a tropical fish that eat coral. They are called Parrotfish because their teeth are fused to form a beak rather than individual teeth. By eating and grinding up coral they create sand. Parrotfish have been recorded in NZ waters only a couple of times as juveniles brought down here by currents. They won't survive as it gets too cold during winter. You hear NZ fishing programmes on TV refer to Parrotfish but these are in fact Wrasse. There are many types of Parrotish in the tropics and many types of Wrasse around NZ but Parrotfish definitely need the warmer water.

I live on the North Shore and found the best way to find streams with whitebait is to look for adults congregating to spawn. It's surprising how hardy some are and have found them in dodgey industrial areas and at first glance nothing could survive. Posted a bit of video I took of whitebait waiting at a culvert for the tide to come in so they could get under the road and of adults waiting to go up a relatively insignificant side stream to spawn. I'm surprised the Kingfishers weren't having a field day. Auckland Harbour Bridge is behind me. Hope the link works. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzPV3F2N-ak