#Canterbury mudfish

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Threatened species, like the Canterbury mudfish, have no legal protection in the regulations. There’s nothing stopping somebody catching and eating them on private land, other than the fact they’re probably not good eating. Perhaps odder still, one of our ‘At Risk’ species falls into our fishery industry’s quota management system. Up to 137 tonnes of endemic long-finned eels can be caught each year. Eels only breed once in their lifetime before dying so every eel which makes it to a dinner plate or into a can of pet food, is an eel which has never had a chance to reproduce.

Farah Hancock, ‘Aotearoa’s vanishing species’, RNZ

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UC research may save the Canterbury mudfish from extinction

UC research may save the Canterbury mudfish from extinction

Riparian plants were linked with increased land-based prey entering the water, and this food source could offset some changes induced by increased … #foods…

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