Take a closer look at some of the types of protected sharks, rays, turtles, corals, mammals, and seabirds and where they are found around New Zealand’s coastlines. These species are at high risk of being caught here in both commercial and recreational fisheries.
These posters are publicly available to download and print. Poster dimensions are 9.1 cm by 9.1 cm.
Posters by species
Australasian gannet/tākapu (PDF, 796KB)
Bottlenose dolphin/terehu (PDF, 709K)
Caspian tern/taranui (PDF, 818K)
Deepwater nurse shark/mangō (PDF, 653K)
Southern elephant seal/ihupuku (PDF, 757)
Flesh-footed shearwater/toanui (PDF, 834K)
Fluttering shearwater/pakahā (PDF, 844K)
Great white shark/mangō taniwha (PDF, 696)
Hawksbill turtle/honu (PDF, 945K)
Humpback whale/tohorā (PDF, 812K)
Leatherback turtle/honu (PDF, 827K)
Leopard seal/pakaka (PDF, 649K)
Little blue penguin/kororā (PDF, 930K)
Loggerhead turtle/honu (PDF, 906K)
Māui dolphin/popoto (PDF, 343K)
New Zealand fur seal/kekeno (PDF, 902K)
New Zealand king shag/kawau pāteketeke (PDF, 841K)
New Zealand sea lion/pakake/whakahao (PDF, 910K)
Oceanic whitetip shark/mangō (PDF, 694K)
Olive ridley turtle/honu (PDF, 889K)
Spinetail devil ray (PDF, 700KB)
Spotted black grouper/hāpuku (PDF, 815K)
These posters were made through the Conservation Services Programme to raise awareness of protected species that are found in the New Zealand Marine environment.
More information
More information about each of the groupings of marine animals available below.
A fisher’s guide: New Zealand’s protected fish and reptiles (PDF, 1,191K)
A fisher’s guide: New Zealand Coastal Seabirds (PDF, 1,805K)
A fisher’s guide: New Zealand Seabirds (PDF, 1,556K)
An observer’s identification guide: New Zealand’s protected corals (PDF, 3,200K)
A fisher’s guide: New Zealand’s protected marine mammals (PDF, 761K)