ODT: Programme helps eels to breed

New Zealand’s longfin eels have been classified as “at-risk declining” by the New Zealand Threat Classification System and faced pressures from ongoing habitat loss, commercial fishing, migration barriers and mortality at hydro-structures.
The eel trapping and transfer programme catches and measure eels before releasing the migrants downstream of Roxburgh Dam. From there, the fish still have another 120km to swim to the sea.

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