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Open wide: Snapper teeth secrets
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NIWA and University of Auckland masters student Georgia Third is getting up close and personal with snapper guts and teeth to understand the differences between biologically distinct snapper populations in New Zealand.

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    NIWA's National Freshwater Fish Database goes hi-tech

    News article
    16 August 2013
    Next week, NIWA scientists will showcase the latest version of the National Freshwater Fish Database at an international conference in Hamilton.
    Fisheries

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    A Different Kettle of Fish

    Take a look inside NIWA's facilities - the species, the science and the future of our aquaculture industry.
    Fisheries

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    Snapper: Coastal juvenile

    Coastal juvenile snapper

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    Snapper: Settlement juvenile

    Juvenile snappers

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    Snapper: Larvae

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    Ecosystem influences on snapper

    Research Project
    NIWA has a number of projects that are allowing us to better understand the interaction between snapper and their environment over their life cycle.
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    Summer Series 3: A mako shark named Carol

    News article
    07 January 2013
    Fisheries

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    A haul of hoki.

    Fisheries and EcoConnect

    Service
    EcoConnect provides the New Zealand fishing industry with a unique operational decision-making tool to help mitigate commercial, operational, and environmental risk.

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    Kiwi great whites cross the ditch to Bondi

    News article
    26 September 2012
    Fisheries

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    NIWA goes deeper than ever before, and finds new strange-looking fish

    News article
    23 July 2012
    Fisheries

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    2012 - Secrets of the orange roughy

    News article
    19 July 2012
    Moored underwater cameras have exposed the secret lives of orange roughy nearly 900 metres below the ocean surface.
    Estuaries
    Voyages

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    Spatial Population Modelling

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    The Spatial Population Model (SPM) can model populations over one or two areas, as well as populations in many hundreds of areas.
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