Freshwater fish

Understanding and supporting the migration of fish through New Zealand's freshwater habitats

An easy-to-use system for recording instream structures and assessing their likely impact on fish movements and river connectivity.

Recommended standards for the design and restoration of instream infrastructure to provide for fish passage

An interactive webtool to support barrier prioritisation and fish passage environmental reporting. 

A manual detailing evidence-based methods suitable for evaluating the effectiveness of fish passage solutions.

Investigating the effectiveness of an acoustic bubble-screen in minimising the movement of pest fish

A 3D Printer is helping save New Zealand’s endangered native fish

The New Zealand Freshwater Fish Database (NZFFD) contains over 50,000 freshwater fish observations from across New Zealand from 1901 to the present.

About 76 per cent of indigenous freshwater fish species, that’s 39 out of 54, are threatened with extinction or at risk of becoming threatened.

Nearly half of New Zealand’s river network is partially or fully inaccessible to migratory fish, a new study shows.

Dr Alvin Setiawan talks about recirculating aquaculture systems.

A new study has identified seven freshwater species native to Aotearoa-New Zealand that will likely be highly or very highly vulnerable to climate change.