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Electric Fishing. Fish drawn towards the charge are stunned temporarily, scooped up in a net, identified, weighed, measured and released.
The effects of barriers to fish passage on native species and trout in Taranaki, and a recovering kōaro and eel population in Nelson/Marlborough are among the insights gained in an electric fishing research programme carried out by Fish & Game.
Fatal crash leads to loss of two more lives Monday, July 5, 2021 Paridhi Bakshi Sukhjeet a 31 year old and Gurdeep Kashyap a 27 year old lost their lives on road crash on Saturday morning at Rangitata Diversion Race. The two were travelling on the Pudding Hill road near Methven when the incident took place. The car was found submerged in a canal where the police had to drain it for better access. One of them was found dead on Saturday morning and the other one was retrieved by the divers about 500 metres down on Sunday. Sukhjeet had come to New Zealand from a small district of...
A second body's been recovered following a single car crash into a canal near Methven 4 July 2021 The Police National Dive Squad assisted in the search this morning. The driver's body was found about five-hundred metres downstream of the crash site. Enquiries into the circumstances of the crash are continuing.
Mid Canterbury canal car crash: Body of driver and passenger recovered Sun, 4 Jul 2021, 1:55PM Emergency services received a report about a car that went into the canal off Pudding Hill Rd shortly after 1am yesterday. (Photo / Google) Mid Canterbury canal car crash: Body of driver and passenger recovered Sun, 4 Jul 2021, 1:55PM The bodies of a driver and passenger have been recovered from a Mid Canterbury hydroelectric canal after their vehicle left the road last night and plunged into the water. Emergency services were alerted after the crash at 1am ye...