Story: Eels

More links and websites

• Eel: New Zealand freshwater fish

  Information on native eels from the Department of Conservation.

• Keeping tabs on our native eels

  Don Jellyman tags long-fin eels in an attempt to find their spawning grounds.

• The long and the short of it: looking after native eels

  On the NIWA site, a study of eel behaviour and habitat requirements.

More suggestions and sources

• Graham, David H. A treasury of New Zealand fishes. Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1953.
• McDowall, R. M. The Reed field guide to New Zealand freshwater fishes. Auckland: Reed, 2000.
• Potts, T. H. Out in the open: a budget of scraps of natural history, gathered in New Zealand. Christchurch: Kiwi, 1995 (originally published 1882).