F15hguy Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 Just noticed on Wikipedia that they claim only 5 species make up our Whitebait, I thought it as higher... anyone able to enlighten me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueether Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 Giant Kokopu Banded Kokopu Shortjaw Kokopu Koaro and Inanga Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 i sort my whitebait into different species and release the giants, shortjaw and koaro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F15hguy Posted November 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 what about all the other galaxids??? do they not have a sea run larval form???? there is aprox 25 species, I know a few do not run to sea, but only 5???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueether Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 None of the SI ones do and the Dwarf galaxias in the NI doesn't, the landlocked Inanga in the dune lakes dont, what others are there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cichlidcentral Posted December 1, 2012 Report Share Posted December 1, 2012 I recall back in 2000 the common smelt were also officially recognised as a legal white bait species as well, though they were known as second class white bait long before that. only 5 Galaxid bait though, yeah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F15hguy Posted December 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2012 kewl, always learning, just though more of the galaxid species would be sea run, especially because of the range (i.e. wst coast vs east coast etc....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stella Posted December 7, 2012 Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 Just to complicate matters further, there are landlocked (non-diadromous) populations of all five whitebait species, though some are more common than others. AND there are also non-diadromous *individuals* in waterways that have open access to the sea. So they could have, but they didn't. I also learned recently that the non-diadromous South Island species don't have whitebait-like juveniles. That is a morphology specifically for surviving at sea. Their juveniles look like the adult fish, once they metamorphose from being fry. HOWEVER the dune lakes galaias and dwarf inanga (both descended from landlocked inanga populations) do still have a wee whitebait stage (30mm long - so cute!) but this may have been maintained as the lake is a surrogate for the sea. Or they haven't been around long enough to lose it. Or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted December 7, 2012 Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F15hguy Posted December 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2012 :thup: kewl thanks.... needing to learn as much as possible to get ready for next year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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