Fish - New Zealand Sea Fish Species - Freshwater

Albacore Tuna - Identification Guide

Albacore Tuna - Thunnus alanlunca

Barracouta - Thyrsites atun ('Couta or Cook Strait Sailfish)

Barracouta - Caught Surfcasting with life baits

Bass - Polyprion moeone (bass groper)

Bluenose Warehou - Hyperoglyphe antartica

Blue Cod - Parapercis colias

Bluefun Tuna - Thunnus orientalis - 325kg, off Westport, S.I.

Bluefun Tuna - Thunnus orientalis - 300kg, West Coast, S.I.

Blue Mackerel - Scomber australasicus (Pacific, English mackerel)

Blue Shark - Prionace glauca (Blue Pointer)

Dogfish (Spiny) Squalus acanthias - Spiny dogfish from Colac Bay

Dogfish (Spiny) Squalus acanthias - Small Inshore Sharks

Elephant Fish - Waimakariri Rivermouth

Elephant Fish - Callorhinchus milii

Frostfish - Lepidopus caudatus

Garfish - hyporhamphus ihi (Piper)

Groper - Polyprion oxygeneios - (Hapuku in North island)

Gurnard Red - Chelidonichthys kumu

Hammerhead Shark - weighing 159.2kg on 24kg tackle

Kahawai - Arripis trutta (called salmon in Australia)

Kahawai - Arripis trutta - Fishing method at rivermouths

Ling - Genypterus blacodes

Mako Shark - Isurus oxyrinchus - Hunting Mr Mako (Jumping mako)

Mako Shark - caught off Banks Peninsula

Blue Moki - Latridopsis ciliaris

Pomfret - Brama brama

Pufferfish - Contusus richei

Red Cod - Pseudophycis bachus

Rig Shark - Mustelus lenticulatus (Gummy Shark, Smoothhound)

Rock Cod - Lotella rhacinus

Rough Skate - Enormous skate 40kg caught by Liz Melrose

Rough Skate - Raja nasuta - caught at Nape Nape Beach

Salmon (landlocked) - Record Size Land-locked Salmon from Lake Hawea

Salmon (landlocked) - Oncorhynchus tshawytscha

Sevengill Shark - Heptanchias perlo

Snapper - caught with beach long-line. North of Hokitika, West Coast

Snapper - Chrysophrys auratus

Southern Bastard Red Cod - Pseudophycis barbatus

Sprat - Sprattus antipodum, S. muelleri

Sting Ray - Dasyatis brevicaudatus

Tarakihi - Nemadactylus macropterus

Tope Shark - Galeorhinus australis (School Shark, Grey Boy)

Trumpeter - Latris lineata

Wrasse Banded - Pseudolabrus fucicola

Wrasse Scarlet - Pseudolabrus miles

Yellow Cod - Parapercis gilliesi

Yellow-eyed Mullet - Aldrichetta forsteri

Yellowtail Kingfish - Seriola lalandi - (Kingi) Caught David Tattle

Yellowtail Kingfish - Seriola lalandi - (Kingi) Canterbury Kingfish

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Sea and Freshwater Fishes of New Zealand - Saltwater Fish Species