Sports Fish & Game Bird Research

 

Latest published research

•  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)

Existing 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 all (2011)

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