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Learn how to use the New Zealand Freshwater Fish Database (NZFFD)

This manual prescribes a set of sampling and analysis protocols applicable to most of the common stream habitats in New Zealand.

A high proportion of New Zealand’s native freshwater fish fauna need to migrate to and from the sea.

Station height is in metres above mean sea level. Years of data are the number of complete years of data for the 1981 – 2010 period.

Mountainous areas are subject to heavy snowfalls, high winds, and low temperatures. Semi-permanent snow and ice fields exist at about 1000-1100 metres during winter.

This daily image of New Zealand from space was created using data from one of NASA's EOS satellites, collected at our receiving station in Lauder, Central Otago.

NIWA is today issuing some scientific information on the parasite Bonamia ostreae, recently discovered in Big Glory Bay, Stewart Island, and the risk it poses to the Bluff oyster fishery.

Tuna or freshwater eels are a very significant, widely-valued, heavily-exploited, culturally iconic mahinga kai resource.

NIWA provides ambient air quality monitoring services using low-cost ODIN (Outdoor Dust Information Node) sensors.

The mass of carbon emissions can easily be calculated.