Starry Toado

20
Feb

Perfect Day anchored in the bay today, and the schooling snapper, in huge numbers, mingled with kingfish, trevally, and starry toado in never before seen numbers.

The schooling snapper were at least 30 pounders, and the beautiful blue water showcased a sight that certainly we had never seen before.

Several schools of starry toado balled up at the surface and were picked away by nature’s fittest.

Russ took some video footage and we have a couple of images, but even though you try to do it justice, the sheer wonder of this marine reserve at the Poor Knights is simply breathtaking.

For the younger generation to see THIS shifting baseline, I am thrilled about. The kids out there today, saw more fish than their grandparents did at their age; for so long it has been the other way around. Long may that trend continue.

For more information

More footage from Tutukaka Anniversary Weekend.

Type “toado” in the search bar at the top of the page, to find more info and photos of the starry’s we have been seeing.

Starry Toado

Fishbase.org id as Starry toado

Australian Faunal Directory call them Mainstay Puffer