A proposed package of measures to improve the status of New Zealand’s iconic longfin eel population has been announced today by Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy. “The longfin eel is the ...

A New Zealand fisherman has apologized for catching a longfin eel that was said to be a breeding female belonging to an "at-risk" species, and believed to be about 90 years old. Shaun James and ...

Lurking in the depths of freshwater waterways, all around New Zealand, longfin eels are the most common fish in our rivers. The native longfin eel, at up to 1.6 metres in length, is something to ...

The longfin eel can grow 2 metres long ... Eggs hatch into larvae shaped like leaves and drift on ocean currents all way to New Zealand - the only country where they are found.

Longfin eels prefer clear waters, rocky beds and shade. In early April, a tonne of eels died trying to get to the sea from Canterbury’s Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere, and the sight of their ...

The blobfish has won New Zealand’s “fish of the year ... to have enjoyed a reputational glow-up after it beat the longfin eel and pygmy pipehorse to be crowned New Zealand’s fish of ...

The blobfish has won New Zealand’s “fish of the year ... to have enjoyed a reputational glow-up after it beat the longfin eel and pygmy pipehorse to be crowned New Zealand’s fish of ...

The longfin eel, a species native to New Zealand that spends most of its life in freshwater but breeds in the ocean, was spotted at the side of Mill Street near the Chinatown area of Adelaide.