Native Fish Stocking Update

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Native Fish Stocking in Victoria
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More than two million native fish have been stocked into Victoria's lakes and rivers for the fourth consecutive year thanks to funding from fishing licence fees and the State Government’s $16 million Recreational Fishing Initiative.

The stocked total included more than 1.2 million golden perch and a record 107,000 estuary perch fingerlings. Also stocked were Murray cod, trout cod, Australian bass, Macquarie perch, silver perch and catfish.

Fisheries Victoria’s Snobs Creek hatchery produced a significant number of the native fish stocked, including 514,000 Murray cod, and good numbers of Macquarie perch and trout cod, both of which are classified as threatened species. Trout cod remain off limits to anglers for now while several stocked fisheries are developed.

Most Murray cod were stocked into Lake Nagambie, the Goulburn River, Gunbower Creek, Loddon River, Kangaroo Lake, Lake Eppalock, Lake Eildon and Cairn Curran Reservoir.

Waters stocked with golden perch included Lake Eppalock, Lake Hume, Loddon River, Campaspe River, Lake Eildon, Kow Swamp, Broken River, Wimmera River and Taylors Lake.

The Recreational Fishing Initiative is also installing fish cleaning tables and fishing reefs, expanding angler access, improving fish passageways and strengthening fisheries enforcement and education.


Visit www.depi.vic.gov.au/nativefish2014 for the full list of waters stocked with native fish in 2013/14.
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