Northland īnanga project rolling out nationally

Team members searching for īnanga eggs. A three-and-a-half year project to protect īnanga spawning habitats in Northland, particularly in the Te Akau/Bream Bay catchment, looks set to roll out nationally. The Northland Īnanga Spawning Habitat Restoration Project was set up to address the decline in native fish populations, with a specific focus on īnanga (Galaxias maculatus). It targeted the degradation of spawning habitats caused by factors such as farm stock damage to riparian areas, man-made alterations to natural bank structures, sediment accumulation, barriers to fish migration and inappr...