All posts tagged "Native Fish"

  • Recovering Maccas in Victorian Waterways

    Macquarie perch, or affectionately known by recfishers as ‘Maccas’, were once abundant and widespread throughout the south-eastern Murray-Darling system. To past generations of fishers, Macquarie perch are very a very well-known

  • Spying on River Blackfish

    Researchers from Deakin University have turned to spy-like aquatic surveillance to uncover the secret life of river blackfish (Gadopsos marmoratus) and give them a helping hand. Once abundant, river blackfish

  • Draft Native Fish Recovery Strategy

    VRFish have been invited to provide feedback on the draft Native Fish Recovery Strategy by the Murray-Darling Basin Authority. The Australian and Basin State Governments have been developing a Native

  • Standing up for Native Fish in Reedy Lake

    A potential fish kill was avoided and an extinct native fish was re-discovered after VRFish publicly raised its serious concerns about a planned draining of Reedy Lake 3 near Kerang.

  • Have Your Say: Native Fish Management and Recovery Strategy

    The Murray Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) are consulting on a draft Native Fish Management and Recovery Strategy to protect and restore native fish populations of the Basin over the long-term.

  • Monitoring River Blackfish in the Gellibrand River

    In 2018, researchers from Deakin University received funding from your Recreational Fishing Licence fees to establish a southern river blackfish spawning recruitment monitoring network in the Gellibrand River catchment. This

  • Indigenous Employment Program at New Hatchery

    Shepparton’s new native fish hatchery will support Indigenous employment by employing Indigenous people for up to half of the workforce. The Indigenous employment program was announced by Minister for Fishing

  • Lake Benella Crawling with Spider Structures

    Recently, 40 of these ‘Spider’ fish habitat structures were installed in Lake Benalla by the Tatong Anglers Group. It may be the first time they have been used in Australia,

  • Summer Native Fish Stocking Bonanza

    The new year has kicked off with a native fish stocking bonanza with the Victorian Fisheries Authority stocking close to a million native fish in the last few weeks. While

  • Fish going with the environmental flow

    A key to native fish recovery is to use water for the environment to trigger fish to move so they will then feed and breed – the benefit being more

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