Fishing News & Events

High satisfaction among anglers under Otago’s Designated Waters licence

Trout anglers in Otago have given their fishing experience the big thumbs up under a new licensing system for backcountry rivers, a riverside survey has found.

Fishing Species management
Otago
9/08/2024

Big lakes, big challenges for monitoring fish populations

Fish population densities in Otago's three largest lakes are relatively stable, new acoustic survey analysis suggests.

Species management Environment
Otago
9/08/2024

Help shape the future of our angling and hunting heritage

This year Fish & Game councils around New Zealand will hold their triennial elections.

Otago
9/08/2024

Anglers form sisterhood bonds in river of resilience

They came as strangers and left thick as thieves. Seven women whose lives have been affected by breast cancer attended a weekend fly-fishing retreat at Makarora this month.

Fishing
Otago
16/05/2024

Native restoration project reels in anglers for help

Anglers have waded in to help a catchment group and a high-country farm restore and rewild an important spawning stream in Wānaka.

Fishing Environment
Otago
15/05/2024

River research is a net gain for students and urban fishery

An abundance of brown trout in a river flowing through the Otago University Dunedin campus has surprised a group of Zoology Department third-year students.