Onoke Spit News Today

Lake survey reveals worrying results 12:30 PM Thursday Feb 18, 2021 Niwa freshwater ecologist Mark Fenwick [second on right], with a kakahi in his hand, talking with some citizen scientists at Lake Wairarapa during Sunday’s monitoring. PHOTOS/PETE MONK WALT DICKSON With all of Lake Wairarapa to play in, it can be a lonely life for a juvenile kakahi, the native New Zealand freshwater mussel. While there are plenty of the adult mollusc living on the lake bed, juveniles are few, and it is cause ...