New Zealanders love their native galaxiids—sandwiched between two pieces of white bread for the most part. What most people don’t realise is that whitebait are actually the juvenile of a spectacular family of native fish, a group of species as unique as our kiwi, kakapō and kereru, only far less visible. And just as we are getting to know our galaxiids, we are driving them towards extinction.
Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue 136 November-December 2015
Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/medium-rare/