Contents

COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : There are plenty more fish in the sea. Right?
CONTENTS : Departments : EDITORIAL -- VIEWFINDER Summer in Nelson -- GeoNEWS -- DATA Pa -- PROFILE Alistair McDonald -- BOOKS Singing the Trail, Crafting Aotearoa -- HISTORY Charles Heaphy -- IN THE FIELD Talman Madsen.
CONTENTS : Features :
THE PRICE OF FISH Are there plenty more fish in the sea? Reports of falling hoki stocks off the West Coast and the near-disappearance of crayfish from the Hauraki Gulf suggest that our 'best in the world' fisheries management might not be living up to the hype.
THE SONG OF THE RIFLEMAN Zip, pip, chuck, goes the call of our smallest bird. Is this an early form of language?
END OF THE IRON AGE As the sun sets on New Zealand's manufacturing industries, a photographer visits a foundry and steel mill.
DEAD HEAT Giant carnivorous land snails don't ask for much : moist leaf litter to call home, earthworms to suck up like spaghetti.
PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2019 The 51 finest frames of the year, from all corners of the country.