one publication added to basket [232708] | Freshwater eels and people in New Zealand: a love/hate relationship
In: Humanity and the Sea. Springer: Dordrecht. ISSN 2213-607X; e-ISSN 2213-6088, more
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Keywords |
Biology Commercial fisheries Common names Fishes > Osteichthyes > Anguilliformes > Anguillidae > Anguilla > Anguilla reinhardtii Fishing methods Management Stocks Taxa > Species Anguilla australis australis Richardson, 1841 [WoRMS] New Zealand [Marine Regions] Fresh water |
Abstract |
New Zealand has a relatively small native fish fauna, just 38 described species (McDowall 1990), a small number relative to the 95 in Japan, a land of similar size. Eels are the largest and most frequently encountered native species in New Zealand, and often make up 90 % or more of the biomass (total weight) of fish in a river or stream (Rowe et al. 1999). |
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