Lovely little native fish with distinctive blue around its gill area.
In pool at Kitekite falls.
Fyke net pixie stm
Found in moderate water quality stream whilst investigating effects of turbidity in local creek on biodiversity for daughter's science fair
The eel stayed under the duck for a long time. Spotted by @erictheskinks and photographed by @chickengirlsupreme
In a flooded building foundation - very skittish but plenty around - also eels in the same "pond"
Dozens of these, stranded in small pools in the drying stream bed. I transferred as many as possible to large deep pools.
Caught in small tidal creek close to beach
There were at least six of these fish in very small section of stream I was working in. I was helping a relative of my wife clear out a lovely spring feeder stream of the Mangapiko.
These chaps were very comfortable with me approaching quite closely for the photos. They also exhibited quite a lot of chasing behaviour between one another.
The spring creek is very choked with inkweed etc, but in the two places I could get a decent look, I found healthy giant kokopu specimens. I would imagine that there were many more that I couldn't spot.
I think this is a common bully but I will let the community decide - I'm no expert.
About twenty fish in a pool, under forest, in a small stream draining into the harbour.