Two zombie snapper caught in Auckland suggests disease more widespread 
By Denise Piper NZ Source: nzherald 6/8/2024
Denise Piper
A woman who has spent her life fishing the Kaipara Harbour is seriously worried about an illness impacting snapper, which has left them so unwell they are described as “zombie fish”.

Dargaville recreational fisherman Sam Erickson first noticed the sick fish about a month ago while fishing near Ruawai in Northland.
 

He coined the term “zombie fish” because he said they looked like the walking dead, with sunken eyes that were bloodshot and milky, and appearing to be missing flesh and their normal mucus layer.

 
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