South Australia’s Katfish Reach is a diverse floodplain, home to at least 20 threatened species. The floodplain is large, covering…
The Summer of 2018-19 saw horrendous sights in the Darling River, around 1 million fish dead from the river’s degradation. This sparked a study in 2020 by researchers Dr Martin Mallen-Cooper and Dr Brenton Zampatti from CSIRO and Charles Sturt University (Restoring the ecological integrity of a dryland river: Why low flows in the Barwon–Darling
The flow of water drives the life cycle of fish – whether it’s a Murray cod migrating upstream on high…
Biodiversity is a term that gets used a lot when talking about why environmental flows are needed to improve the…
In Autumn 2017, an opportunity was identified to support native fish in the lower Macquarie and Barwon rivers. This opportunity…
Water and fish go together, but in recent years we have gained a better understanding of how fish numbers are…
Since European settlement native fish populations across the Murray-Darling Basin have decreased by up to 90 per cent. In the…
There are many ways environmental water (e-water) can be used to benefit native fish either by delivering water from storages…
Native fish in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) have adapted to ‘boom and bust’ cycles of water availability and flow. Over…
In terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, habitat complexity and connectivity promote biodiversity and population resilience. In regulated rivers, however, dams, weirs…
Golden perch are thriving in waterways west of Hay, thanks to targeted flows supporting fish habitat. Creeks and wetlands between…
When Isaac Newton first said ‘what comes up must come down’ in the sixteen hundreds we all thought we was…