Inanga - Galaxias Maculatis (North Otago) Traditional Cache
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Inanga - Galaxias Maculatis (North Otago)
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Fish for your cache among the whitebaiters.
All whitebait species spend part of their life cycle in fresh water and part in the sea. Tiny fish hatch in late autumn and are carried along rivers out to sea where they live and grow over the winter.
In late winter and early spring whitebait migrate back up rivers and streams, finally settling and growing in bush covered streams and swamps. The start of the migration is thought to be influenced by river flows (i.e. shortly after floods) and phases of the moon.
Mature inanga adults migrate downstream to lower river sections and estuaries to spawn in grasses covered by water during spring tides. The eggs remain in the grass until the next spring tide covers them again when the young hatch and are carried out to sea. The spawning habits of other whitebait species are not well known.
Whitebait catch consists primarily of the young of three species: inanga (Galaxias maculatus), koaro (G. brevipinnis) and banded kokopu (G. fasciatus); inanga is by far the most commonly caught species.
The cache if your coast is clear of whitebaiters is a 200 ml sistema container.
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