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ew Zealand uropean Influence, Franz Josef Glacier, and Fishing

By: Daniel Campbell, Liz Reed,

Sam McBaine, Kristen

Roesner,Lorr n Bolte and Lea



European Influence •The Dutch were the firstEuropeans to visit NewZealand in 1642.

•The British Navel CaptainJames Cook gave the nameNew Zealand to the island.

•New Zealand was visited by

Europeans in the early yearsfor whaling, sealing, and shiptrade.



European Influence• The potato and the musket

transformed Māoriagriculture and warfare,although the resultingMusket Wars died outonce the tribal imbalance

of arms had been rectified.• From the early nineteenth

century, Christianmissionaries began tosettle New Zealand,

eventually convertingmost of the Māoripopulation, who hadbecome disillusioned withtheir indigenous faith by

the introduction ofWestern culture.

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Fishing IndustryNew Zealand’s 200 nautical mile exclusive

economic zone gives its fishing industryspecial fishing rights. It covers 4.1 millionsquare kilometres. This is the sixth largestzone in the world, and is fourteen times theland area of New Zealand itself.

Over 15,000 marine species are known to livethere, about ten percent of the world'sdiversity.

New Zealand's wild fisheries captured 441,000

tonnes and earned over NZ$1 billion in exportsin the fishing year 2006/07.

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About 1.2 million or 31 percentof New Zealanders engage, atleast occasionally, inrecreational fishing with anannual recreational take of

about 25,000 tonnes.



Fishing Industry• Taupo is a town in the Northern

island of New Zealand.

• It is a popular site for tourism andrecreational activities such asfishing with fly fishing actuallybeing its main source of fishing.

• Here are a list of the 12 monthsand the seasons for fishing in the

Taupo area:

ｷ OctoberSeason opens for back countrystreams. Water is cool, spring is in theair.ｷ NovemberWarmer temperatures. Good nymphfishing, possibly dry fly.ｷ DecemberDry flies or dry fly/nymph combination.ｷ JanuarySummer. Surface feeding.ｷ FebruaryLower waters. Dry fly fishingｷ MarchNymphs and dry flies

ｷ AprilCooler. Mostly nymphing, with dry-flyfishing on small streams.ｷ May-SeptemberWinter months. Back-country riversclose for spawning. Fly fishing for river-running rainbows in Lake Taupo.



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The aquaculture of mussels,salmon and oysters earned $226million in 2006/2007. This madeseafood the country’s fifth largest

export earner.



Franz Josef Glacier



Glacier continued• From its origins high in the

Southern Alps, the FranzJosef Glacier descendsdeep into the lushrainforest of Westland’sNational Park, from aheight of 2700m above sealevel to only 240m in aslittle as 11 km, making itthe worlds steepest andfastest flowing

commercially guidedglacier.

• It is the rugged gradient ofthe Franz Josef Glacierthat ensures our clientsenjoy the most dramatic

glacier scenery availableto the general public



Glacier continued• The glacier is 12 km long and is on

the west coast of the South Island.It has a river descending from it thatis known as the Waiho River. It,along with the Fox Glacier and thesurrounding area, is a designatedWorld Heritage Site, which areplaces that have a cultural ornatural significance to humanity. Itis also one of the most popularglaciers in New Zealand with about250,000 visitors per year splitbetween it and its closest neighbor,the Fox Glacier.

• The glacier was named by aGerman explorer named Julius vonHaast after the Austrian emperorFranz Josef. The Maori call theglacier Ka Roimata o Hine Hukatere,or the tears of Avalanche Girl. Thename comes from a legend thatsays Hine Hukatere climbed amountain with her lover Weke who

• The glacier goes through cyclesof growth and melting. In the1940s, it began to retreat, but itstarted growing again in 1985. Attimes, it has grown 70 cm perday. These cycles are due to the

differences in the annual snowfalland meltwaters. Each year ofsnowfall takes about 5-6 years tobecome apparent in the lowerend of the glacier.

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