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Recreational Fishermen: Do Your Part!

The Dumaresq River Research Program has been running for a few years now & has been getting some great results. It is run by the Glenlyon Dam Fish Management Group with the support of Fisheries Departments & Staff from Qld, NSW & Victoria.

In short, a 30km section of river from the Junction of the Severn River (Qld) & Mole Rivers down to the Bonshaw Weir is the area in focus. Hundreds of Murray Cod have been caught, measured, tagged, been DNA sampled and released back into the river.

Some early returns on the study are showing some interesting results. Results which can & will help us to understand how to better manage our sweetwater fisheries & fish restocking.

The program only has a very limited budget & needs more support to continue.

WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP?

This project has been nominated for a the National Landcare Awards. It is competing with many other varied projects across Australia. Placing well or even better winning this coveted award will help gain this program some much needed funding to continue the program.

Please view this link for teh voting procedure:


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It only takes a minute to do.

In the Category select: Toshiba Community Group Award

In the Finalist select: Glenlyon Dam Inc

Thanks to Garry Fitzgerald of the Sweetwater Fishing Website for this information.

Thanks to Ray Kennedy of Brisbane Fishing Online for bring it to our attention!

The Team

Brisbane Fishing Online

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From the landcare website.

Glenlyon Dam Fish Restocking Group Inc (GDFRG) has been nominated for a National Landcare Award for their work in implementing a stocking management plan of the Murray cod population in the Dumaresq River.

The Glenlyon Dam Fish Restocking Group is one of the longest running stocking associations in Queensland. Prior to the group forming, more than three million Murray cod fingerlings had been stocked into the Murray Darling catchment with little knowledge of the impact or contribution of this to the natural population or the recreational fishery.

GDFRG commenced a stocking management plan in the region in 1986 prepared in partnership with the Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries. Now, more than 10,000 Murray Cod fingerlings have been stocked in a managed process each year into the Dumaresq River downstream of the dam.

In 2008, the GDFRG commenced a project to assess the contribution of stocking and levels of natural recruitment of the Murray cod population in the Dumaresq river between Mingoola and Bonshaw.

Information will be gathered over a number of years on population size, growth rates, habitat requirements and home ranges and will be used to improve the stocking management plans presently in place in the river and made available to all stocking groups throughout the Murray Darling.

Biannual surveys of the population are currently being undertaken over a five-year period with 80 volunteers fishing the entire river and conducting an electrofishing survey of these sites. All captured fish are recorded for length, location and habitat of capture before being tagged and returned.

So far, four surveys have been completed with over 571 Murray cod captured, tagged and recorded. The surveys are providing important information on size structures of the Murray cod population, which will feed into the overall stocking plan.

Come on guys lot more signatures required and if your family members have different email addresses they can also vote.

Cheers

Ray

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