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Kōrero: Ocean currents and tides

Feeding frenzy

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This footage is of a feeding frenzy among fish as they devour a salp that has drifted into a reef with the current. Islands such as the Poor Knights in northern New Zealand have some subtropical fish species – a legacy of the currents that bring fish and other life with them from warmer latitudes.

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Craig Stevens rāua ko Stephen Chiswell, Ocean currents and tides – Currents, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/5913/feeding-frenzy (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Craig Stevens rāua ko Stephen Chiswell, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.