The relative importance of wood material in providing in‐stream cover for adult banded kokopu ( Galaxias fasciatus ) was determined in first‐order, North Island, New Zealand, streams. Three groups of streams, each differing in the relative amount of three types of in‐stream cover (i.e., wood, boulders, undercut banks) were selected and banded kokopu were sampled in their pools using electric fishing. Banded kokopu occurred ben...

We determined the effects of logging, both with and without a riparian buffer strip, on the native fish fauna at 27 stream sites in an exotic pine (mainly Pinus radiata) forest on the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand. Fish abundance at the logged sites was compared with reference sites in both unlogged pine and native forest. The abundance of Anguilla dieffenbachii (Gray) and Anguilla australis (Richardson) was not significan...

Laboratory tank experiments indicated that turbidity levels up to 160 Nephelometric Turbidity Units (NTU) did not reduce the feeding rates of adult smelt ( Retropinna retropinna Richardson), or inanga (Galaxias maculatus Jenyns), on Daphnia sp. Mean feeding rates were higher for inanga than for smelt. However, the lower rates for smelt were related to the greater variation in individual feeding rates. Specifically, a few fish...