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Downloadable and printable guides on identification of common freshwater invertebrates found in New Zealand waterways and lakes.

Farmers are making business decisions everyday which are influenced by environmental factors. We can help farmers to improve decision-making, mitigate farm environment risk, and to become more productive, efficient, competitive and sustainable.

NIWA collects a vast range of environmental information about New Zealand’s environment from the sky to the seafloor.

These datasets are available in a range of formats.

We can supply a wide range of weather or climate monitoring instruments from single parameter sensors to fully equipped and installed climate stations.

Tuna, or freshwater eels, are the most widespread freshwater fish in New Zealand. This 'living' educational resource summarises a large amount of scientific and technical literature.

Inanga are the predominant species in the modern whitebait fishery.

To get the most benefit from a fish stock in the long term, we need to maximise our yield without damaging the fish population we rely on.

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All transmissions from GMS-5 are no longer received at NIWA’s satellite reception station in Wellington. We are working on an alternative data feed and will be able to bring back these images later this year. Once we start receiving data again, it will then be calibrated, re-mapped onto standard map projections, and archived.

The Statement of Core Purpose spells out why the Government owns Crown Research Institutes and what it expects from them.

Al Brown is an award-winning chef, co-owner of Wellington’s Logan Brown restaurant, television presenter on Hunger for the Wild, writer, and fisherman.