Thread: Anybody with connections at FGNZ?

Does anybody have any connections with someone at Fish and Game New Zealand that might be willing to have a chat with me? I just have a few questions that I'd like to ask and I would feel better talking to a friend of a friend or some such rather than just "cold calling" a random F&G office. As I mentioned in my introduction a few months back I will have almost 20 years experience in fisheries research when we move to NZ. I am just not familiar with how things are different there and I would gain a lot by just asking simple questions of someone in the know. Like for instance I see that the 'situations vacant' on the FGNZ website says that the 3 jobs posted close(ed) on Oct/Nov 2021...but they're still posted. Does that mean that nobody applied for the positions and they are still open or have they just not taken down the postings? Here in the states, the northwest especially, there are so many fisheries students that enter the workforce every year that all the jobs get taken. Also I see that they have "Fish and Game Officer- Ecologist" as a position, to be honest that is my dream job. When I was younger I wanted to be a Fish and Game Officer (Game Warden) but I became a biologist instead. I wonder if they have "Fish and Game Officer- Biologist" positions? Or maybe biologist/ecologist is just the same thing? Yes of course my expertise lies in fisheries but my degree is in Fisheries and Wildlife and studying populations, planning and conducting research projects and managing populations is basically the same whether you are talking about fish, deer or crocodiles. Of course there will be a lot to learn when I get there but I like learning new things and don't mind working hard in the field and putting in extra hours in the career that I love. Thanks a ton folks!!

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No help with Fish and Game sorry, but consider contacting the Cawthron Institute as well.
https://www.cawthron.org.nz/

Definetly try this ^^^ My daughter used to work there and its a good outfit.

Regardless how you get on with work in that patch (I would be door knocking myself), I think there's going to be a lot of work coming up in the freshwater ecology area. Environmental surveys etc around freshwater as regulations take hold in that space.

NIWA do fisheries research, but they might be only saltwater/coastal and not freshwater? National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research

Also NZ king salmon

Originally Posted by Cigar

NIWA do fisheries research, but they might be only saltwater/coastal and not freshwater? National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research

Friend of mine has worked for Nioa for 30 yrs,definitely do a lot of fresh water research.

Originally Posted by The bomb

Friend of mine has worked for Nioa for 30 yrs, definitely do a lot of fresh water research.

This is exactly the kind of thing that I am looking for!! Any chance that I could give them a call or exchange a few emails? Just trying to get a feel for the agencies and type of research that is currently ongoing. Thank you.

NIWA also do work on geothermal waters

I'm an aquatic ecologist working at one of the smaller consultant outfits. It sounds like with your background the best bets would be NIWA, Fish & Game and also Department of Conservation. Then you've also got Cawthron institute and various consultants. DoC and F&G do more management and regulatory work with some research and monitoring while NIWA and Cawthron are Crown Research Institutes (CRI's) with part government, part private funding for research and both heavily involved in freshwater research. Then there are the consultants which tend to either be specialist companies or larger civil engineering/design or environmental services companies that have a small freshwater ecology team.
It's probably worth contacting all of the above and also individual regional offices within the wider organisations.

Originally Posted by Joe Schmo

This is exactly the kind of thing that I am looking for!! Any chance that I could give them a call or exchange a few emails? Just trying to get a feel for the agencies and type of research that is currently ongoing. Thank you.

She has recently left but I could hit her up for you.

Originally Posted by The bomb

She has recently left but I could hit her up for you.

I’d greatly appreciate it and I’d owe you a beer!!

Hey Matt, have you received my messages over the last few weeks? I have someone within F&G who has been expecting you to make contact

I haven’t received any!! PM’ing you now!!!