Bruce Quirey

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Fish & Game and Ernslaw One team up to protect native galaxiids in plantation forests

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Club and community events keep kids keen

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Despite tangles galore, more than 160 children are hooked into fishing after three weekend events run by angling clubs and community groups in the region on Sunday, November 26.

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Urban wetland protected forever

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The covenanting of the Bullock Creek Hatchery Springs wetland has been celebrated at a community gathering in Wānaka.

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Family gears up for adventure after fishing clinic

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The Brabant family will hit the South Island’s rivers, lakes and canals this summer after attending a soft bait fishing clinic in Central Otago this week.

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Tough day on Waipahi – but it all helps for research

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Otago Fish & Game is collecting otoliths (ear bones) from competitions like the historic Waipahi Gold Medal to continue research into where brown trout spend their lives in the lower...

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Fish & Game protects urban wetland in Wānaka

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Otago Fish & Game Council alongside the Queen Elizabeth 2 National Trust (QE2) has covenanted one of Otago’s most unusual wetlands, ensuring its ongoing protection.

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2023 Otago Soft Bait Clinics

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Want to learn how to catch more trout, salmon and perch using soft baits?

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Bird-lovers’ new passion for fishing just clicks

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Hours spent on rivers pursuing a love of bird watching and wildlife photography has inspired a Mosgiel couple to take up trout fishing.

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Key trout spawning streams identified in lower Clutha River/Mata-au

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Crucial spawning tributaries have been identified in the lower Clutha River/Mata-au catchment after a four-year research project collecting and analysing brown trout.

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Dad shows how it’s done in Clutha fishing competition

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One boy would fish every day if given the chance. The elder brother doesn’t always like fishing. And dad just showed them how it’s done.

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Mai-mai ballot aimed at next generation of hunters

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Junior and novice hunters in Otago are being offered a chance at exclusive access to mai-mais and duck ponds for the opening of the 2023 game bird season.

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Fishing competitions in double hook-up for kids and science

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Two fishing competitions are weighing in together this year to support trout research and the Clutha community.

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More adult hunters to harvest paradise shelducks

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A nine-day hunting season to harvest some of Otago’s healthy population of paradise shelduck/pūtangitangi opens on Saturday, March 4.

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Fish & Game goes deeper into lake fish knowledge

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Scientists are sounding out trout and salmon populations in one of New Zealand’s most popular fishing destinations, Otago’s Southern Lakes.

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Extra staff bolster summer ranging efforts

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Otago Fish & Game has reeled in extra staff to help with the higher workload over the summer season.

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School's in for soft-bait fishing clinic

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November 10, 2022:

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Otago Fish & Game appoints Cromwell-based operations manager

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An avid game bird hunter with 30 years’ experience in conversation projects has been appointed as Otago Fish and Game Council operations manager based in Cromwell.

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Love of rivers at heart of new scholarship

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A new scholarship honouring the life and work of Associate Professor of Zoology Donald Scott has been established by the Otago Fish and Game Council, the Clutha Fisheries Trust and...

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Angler survey fishing for data on Lake Hawea

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Anglers fishing on Lake Hawea can expect to be quizzed by rangers during a three-year research project starting this month.

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A road less travelled for hatchery fish transporter

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A newly acquired fish transporter will halve the 4000km annual road trip Otago Fish & Game takes to release rainbow trout into “put-and-take” fisheries across the region.

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