Dave Cade is pushing hard to keep didymo - or rock snot - out of Taupo waterways.

The parore, or black snapper, is common in many fish-and-chip shops - although customers would never know.

A natural disaster has wiped out 80 per cent of breeding-size cockles, leading to a possible harvesting ban.

Our favourite catch masquerades under false colours.

Those old trouts can be slippery and stubborn, but my American mate Sam left triumphant.

Playtime or dinnertime ... diver Kirisimasi Foaga didn't know which it was as six orcas swam towards him and nudged him.

It pays to keep a close eye on the hunters in the sky, says Geoff Thomas.

Poor whitebaiting season underlines the need to preserve bush-clad waterside habitats.

Test results due back today may point scientists towards the cause of the mystery illness or illnesses affecting dogs and wildlife in the Hauraki Gulf.