DSC_1197 Manuherikia alpine galaxias (Galaxias aff. paucispondylus 'Manuherikia') Freshwater ecologist Dr Richard Allibone, DoC Ranger Daniel Jack and DoC Freshwater Science Advisor Dr Nicholas Dunn, electro-fishing for a highly disjunct population of Alpine galaxias living in the headwaters of the Manuherikia River. This as yet undescribed species, is absent from the remainder of the Clutha River system, apart from an outlier in the Locky River - which flows into Lake Wakatipu. The nearest conspecifics are found to the north, in the Ahuriri River, part of the Waitaki River system. Upper Manuherikia River *
DSC_6219 Lowland Longjaw galaxias (Galaxias cobitinus) Peter Hayden with DoC officers Daniel Jack, and Ciaran Campbell, sampling fish numbers in longjaw habitat in one of the lower reaches of the Waitaki River. Our rarest native fish lives here in marginal shallows of the river channels. Kauru River
IMG_0289 Burgundy mudfish (Neochanna heleios) freshwater ecologist Mike McGlynn, surveying for mudfish in a swamp on the Kerikeri volcanic plateau in Northland.
