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Fish and Game Otago will take legal action against the Otago Regional Council if it is not consulted during consent processes.

Rivers in the South are expected to be clear for the start of the whitebait season today.

Fish and Game Otago is questioning how it can do its statutory duty of protecting trout and salmon if the Otago Regional Council fails to notify it of consent applications involving waterways.

Discovering no New Zealand sea lion pups were born on one of only five breeding colonies in the Auckland Islands is a concern despite an overall increase in pups on the islands, University of Otago