Monday we have a Net safety course at the college and Year six camp is next week!!
I saw these interesting fish at the show on Saturday. Please comment with any information you have on them.
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Week 7
Wow what a busy week, The audio conference went well on Tuesday and the field trip has enough information to keep us going for weeks.
Monday we have a Net safety course at the college and Year six camp is next week!!
I saw these interesting fish at the show on Saturday. Please comment with any information you have on them.
Monday we have a Net safety course at the college and Year six camp is next week!!
I saw these interesting fish at the show on Saturday. Please comment with any information you have on them.
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I didnt get to go to the show:( but i bet you they were cool!
ReplyDeleteB.A
Wow what a day it was awesome to see the eel's.
ReplyDeleteSadlly we wear not allowed to pick them up.
I didnt go to the show but i think it was awsome J.S
ReplyDeleteCome on guys!! does any body know anything about these native animals?
ReplyDeleteThey are a gallaixed fish and when it is full moon and rivers are in full flood then they lay there eggs in the long grass and when it comes back to a full moon then the eggs hatch and swim back to the sea.
ReplyDeleteAlso when they are out of the water then they bark like a dog but more like a high pitch.
As Nana says they can very closely go up to the size of about 2 or 3 meters
There are three ways of catching them but some of the ways aren't good like spiring them or sometimes if you use a net there tales might get stake in the net also they take up quit a bit of water.
they are very slimy shh
ReplyDeleteThey are longfin eels which were at the show there was lots of them.CR
ReplyDeleteCool, I saw them. Also I got to touch one.
ReplyDeleteJH
Hi Mr Cooke
ReplyDeleteCool but sad I didn't get to see the long fin eels it would of been cool if I got to see them. Sorry I don't know any thing about them other wise I would of put in my comment but I do know something that they can grow up to about the size of 2 or 3 metres WOW!!! and there is three type of ways that you can catch them but some ways aren't good. I can't remember the ways though.
R.E.P
I don't think they grow up to 3metres but there is a lot of information on a poster on the back wall!!
ReplyDeleteHey I think REP copyed MH
ReplyDeleteI don't know what type of fish they are because they are eels! Long-fin eels to be exact. But the show was great fun and i was a bit greedy at Lolly Mania because i had a giant lollypop and a giant gobstopper! I also did the sheep riding but unforcunatly i fell of and now i have a bruised shoulder and a cut along the width! OWWWWWWWW!
ReplyDeleteand the person in the photo with blond hair was me!
ReplyDeleteUnder the cover of darkness, one of New Zealand’s top predators emerges.
ReplyDeleteLack of light is not a problem; it uses its sense of smell to locate its prey. It slips through rivers, streams and lakes unseen, hunting for native galixiid fish, trout, freshwater crayfish (köura) and ducklings.
Long and slender, with a large mouth filled with rows of small, white, sharp teeth, the longfin eel (Anguilla dieffenbachii, or tuna) is one of the most common freshwater fish in the country’s waterways.
Endemic to New Zealand, the longfin eel, so-named because its dorsal (top) fin is longer than its bottom fin, is probably the biggest eel in the world. Slow growing and sometimes living for 80 years, some females can reach 2 metres long and weigh up to 40kg.
On reaching this (breeding) size, the eels migrate to the sea. The details of the lifecycle are not clear. They swim for up to five or six months to tropical Pacific waters, possibly near Tonga, where they spawn and die. The eggs hatch into leaf-shaped larvae that float back to New Zealand on ocean currents.
Arriving in astounding numbers in spring, the larvae transform into slender, transparent “glass” eels. The glass eels soon turn into grey-brown elvers (young eels) and begin migrating upstream. Waterfalls don’t stop them; elvers can climb 40-metre obstacles
using a combination of surface tension and friction.
Some dams have special eel passes to help them conquer the massive concrete walls. Once at their final destination, the elvers begin the serious business of growing to breeding size.
Longfins are not rare, but very large adults, which are most likely to be fertile females, have become scarce. Commercial fishing since the 1960s has had a significant impact on eel numbers and average size.
Habitat loss and pollution have also had their effects. If you go eeling, return big eels to the water. Watch out – they are slippery customers, quite capable of wriggling overland for long distances. And then there are those teeth...
b.k
hi Mr Cooke Brody and I didn't go to the a.m.p we went to st john camp it was awesome yeah woo yeah woo
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G.wc
Hi Alford forest we are in perth and we are have fun.Today we have a thunder storm so we can watch the black cockatoos.I heard a crow.Caww Caww Cawwrw.See you soon. T.T
ReplyDeleteGreat to hear from you TT keep us up to date on your travells. We have pins in the world map following you.
Deletehi t.t hope you are haveing fun how was perth
ReplyDeleteb.k
Hey TT, hope your having a great time. have you seen anything interesting yet?.CR.
ReplyDeleteGidday mates, T.T here
ReplyDeleteI climbed a giant tree that was 65 metres tall in the warren river national park.
We drove to a place called the cascades which is a waterfall.At the waterfall no water was falling.
I am back in perth now.
The tree I climbed was called the dave evans bicenntenial tree.
If you can`t search it search pemberton trees.
See you soon
T.T
And I have seen many interesting things such as cockroachs,electric trains and french bulldogs.
DeleteT.T
See you soon
DeleteT.T
Thats sounds awesome, i've never heard of a Pemberton tree.Thats a weird waterful with no water falling- very interesting, CR
ReplyDeleteGidday Alford forest
ReplyDeleteT.T here
This week I traveled to kalbarri which is above geraldton.
This week I stayed at the beach resort and then down to coronation beach.
I have driven 4000km since I arrived in australia.
T.T and I got 2 metres to a pelican and threw some fish in its mouth.
We learnt that the pelican spins the fish in it's beak so the fish is head first then it eats.
See you soon
T.T