Sports Fish & Game Bird Research

 

Latest published research

• Can small-scale predator control influence mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos) nest survival? An experiment with artificial nests in Southland, New Zealand - Cohen Stewart, Matthew McDougall 2022

• Waterfowl hunting wetlands as habitat for two New Zealand eel species - Cohen Stewart, Erin Garrick, Matthew McDougall and Zane Moss 2021
• Agricultural intensification, declining stream health and angler use: a case example from a brown trout stream in Southland, New Zealand Cohen Stewart, Rasmus Gabrielsson, Karen Shearer and Robin Holmes (2019)

• Do mallard ducks feature in the diet of stoats in an agricultural landscape? - Cohen Stewart, Erin Garrick & Jamie McAulay (2019)

• Can management regime, vegetative and morphological characteristics of drains in the Bay of Plenty explain the presence of mallards and their broods. - McDougall, Nieuwboer, Garrick.

• Preliminary analysis of the distribution of Mallard and grey duck band recoveries in the eastern and Hawkes Bay region. - McDougall, Garrick 2018
• Breeding Ecology and Productivity of Mallards and Mallard-grey Duck Hybrids in New Zealand - Doctoral Thesis (Sheppard 2018)
• Whakapapa & Whanganui River Angler Use Monitoring Study  - Daniel (2017)

• Effects of Surgically Implanted Transmitters on Reproduction and Survival in Mallards – Sheppard, Arnold, Amundson Klee (2017)

• Duckling Survival of Mallards in Southland, New Zealand published in The Journal of Wildlife Management - Erin Garrick Southland Fish & Game Officer (2017)

• Harvest Dynamics and Mallard Duck Survival - McDougall and Amundson (2017)

• A trend count of NZ Shoveler Duck - Matthew McDougall Senior Fish & Game Officer (2017)

Current research

• Mallard Duck Research Programme

Including:

• Mallard Research Update – Sheppard (2017)
• Insights into Duckling Survival & Female Mallard Brooding Behaviour - Garrick (2015)

Previous research

Game bird

• Mallard survival regulations effect - McDougall (2013)
• A trend count of NZ Shoveler Duck - McDougall (2012)
• Survival of post-fledging mallards - Klee and McDougall (2012)
• Mallard and grey duck pond preferences - McDougall et al (2011)

• An introduction most determined: Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) to New Zealand - Dyer et al (2010)

Trout & salmon

• Hutt River trout fishery population changes - Jordan (2012)
• Otolith Microchemistry in trout - Gabrielsson, Seddon and Closs (2012)
• Effects of dairy farming on trout growth, Mohaka and Taharua Rivers - Shearer and Hayes (2011)
• Brown Trout Redd Hydraulics in three lowland streams - Taylor and Burden (2010)
• Didson report on salmon migration - Vivancos and Maxwell (2010)
• The influence of flow variation on juvenile brown trout - Hayes, Olsen and Hay (2010)
• Acoustic assessments of salmonids in South Island Lakes - Gauthier (2009)
• River fisheries attributes in Otago and Nelson Marlborough - Unwin (2009)

Angler

• National Angler Survey 2014-15 (Unwin 2016)
• River Environment Classification of angler survey data - Unwin (2012)
• National Angler survey 2007-8 - Unwin (2009)
• National Angler Survey 2001-2 - Unwin (2003)
• Travel distance as an index of angling value - Unwin and Deans (2003)
• National Angler Survey 1994-6 - Unwin (1998)

Environment

• Farming and the Environment public perceptions survey (Horizons Research 2014)
• Factors affecting the growth and survival of didymo - Kilroy and Bothwell (2010)

Steel/lead shot research

• Summary report on incidence of ingested lead shot from six regions
• Lead-poisoned wildfowl in Spain: a significant threat for human consumers*
• Phasing out the use of lead shot for hunting in wetlands*
• Wild meat raises lead exposure*
• Ingested lead shot and elevated blood lead levels in mallard and grey

* Not Fish & Game research