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Kōrero: Life in fresh water

Native fish figurines

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Native fish figurines

Stan Woods is a former freshwater fisheries biologist who turned his hand to moulding figurines of native fish. New Zealand has 38 species of native freshwater fish (this number rises to over 40 if some estuarine fish species are included in the definition of freshwater).

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Private collection

by Carl Walrond

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Roger Young, Life in fresh water – Fish, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/11640/native-fish-figurines (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Roger Young, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.