Te Arawa Lakes Catfish Update
May 21, 2021
3 minutes
From Lucas MacDonald
Bay of Plenty Regional Council are working with Te Arawa Lakes Trust and research agencies to manage the populations of Brown Bullhead Catfish, which were found in Lake Rotoiti in March 2016 and Lake Rotorua in December 2018. Since 2016 an intensive netting programme supported by volunteer netters have been used to contain the population within Lakes Rotoiti and Rotorua and minimise the risk of the fish spreading to other waterbodies.
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