On Tuesday, the tauira went to a little island above the Mataura River falls and to Gore, where they continued to investigate below the bridge. While here, they caught two juvenile kanakana (ammocoetes) ready for migration out to sea where they would lay their eggs, which explains why they are a beautiful bright blue colour. As Sentre Harden pointed out, when they come back to freshwater if they settle in dirty or muddy parts of the river, this can cause them to change from blue to brown. Also, on the same day a Torrentfish which is quite rare and can usually be found in rapids or fast flowing waters, was caught by two lucky tauira, Sentre and Kaloni.

Wednesday saw all parties go out to Waikawa for coastal electrofishing. This is where the tauira encountered numerous, smaller, shallow streams where they investigated and found mainly Redfin Bullies and Banded Kōkopu, which is found in the Catlins.

Raniera learnt that if you do not use the equipment correctly in terms of Cockabullies it can cause them to get a black strip across their back if left in the water for too long. Rogan Marsh explained that the longest the electro equipment can be left in the water, is five seconds, followed by a three second break and then a finally five seconds while moving the electro current into different sections of the water.