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Native Fish Releases 2010

Note Number: FN0611
Published: May 2010
Updated:

 

This Agnote provides information on the 2010 native fish stockings in Victoria.

Victorian Fish Stocking Program

Fisheries Victoria’s native and salmonid fish stocking program is designed to enhance recreational fishing opportunities for anglers. Annual stocking plans are developed utilising information provided at Victorian Fish Stocking meetings (Vic Fish Stock). Fisheries Victoria recognises the importance of the participation of stakeholders in this process. The meetings use input from recreational fishing representatives, resource managers such as the Department of Sustainability and Environment, Catchment Management Authorities, Water Corporations and Fisheries Victoria staff to develop the current year’s stocking plan.

The development of the stocking program takes into account the performance of the various fisheries, the existing stocking program, results of stock assessment, angler and creel surveys, prevailing environmental conditions, impacts of land and water management regimes and other issues that may impact on the fishery. Requests by stakeholders to vary current stocking programs are also considered.

Fisheries Victoria is committed to enhancing recreational fishing opportunities by a 30% increase in fish stocking between 2006-2010 as part of the $13.5 million Enhanced Recreational Fishing Program. The increase includes salmonid and native fish species into freshwater systems throughout the State. In 2010, Fisheries Victoria stocked almost 1.7 million native fish into Victorian waters, including 434,140 Murray cod and over 1 million golden perch.

Fisheries Victoria has exceeded this commitment to increase fish stocking by 30 per cent over four years. Almost 2 million trout and native fish were stocked into Victorian waters over a 12 month period for the 2009 salmonid and 2010 native stocking seasons. This is in excess of the commitment to increase stocking to 1.5 million by 2010.

Stocking Plans may be subject to ‘last minute' variation due to natural factors i.e. flood, fire, low water level or quality, algal blooms or manmade impacts such as major works on storages.

Ongoing drought conditions have implicated some scheduled releases with cancellations or modifications to stockings. Where possible; recreational fishing representatives were consulted prior to variations.

2010 Native Stockings - total numbers

	Murray cod	Golden perch	Trout cod	Australian bass	Silver perch	Macquarie perch
Fry (0.5 to 5g)	430,690	1,162,800	7,000	52,000	31,000	3,550
Yearlings (150 to 200g)	3,500	200	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
Total	434,190	1,163,000	7,000	52,000	31,000	3,500

Total number of native fish stocked = 1,690,690  

2010 Native Stockings – by waters

Charm LakeJan
Feb50,000
6,000
18,370


25,000
27,000
22,850
3,720

Water stocked	Month 2010	Fish size (g)	Murray cod	Golden perch	Trout cod	Australian bass	Silver perch	Macquarie perch
Allans Flat Dredge Hole (Near Yackandandah)	Mar	1.0		1,500
Amaroo Lake (Part of Kialla Lakes Shepparton)	Mar	1.0		500
Avoca River (Charlton to Nattie Yallock)	Feb Feb Mar	0.94 0.6 1.0	6,000 4,000	18,000
Bartlett Lake (Tatura)	Mar	1.0		1,000
Bealiba Reservoir	Mar	1.0		2,000
Blue Rock Lake	Jan	0.8				30,000
Broken Creek (Dip Bridge & Nathalia)	Mar	1.0		20,000
Broken River (Downstream of Benalla)	Mar	1.0		20,000
Buffalo Lake	Mar	2.0		10,000
Cairn Curran Reservoir	Jan Mar	1.0 1.0	10,000	20,000
Campaspe River (Rochester & Elmore to Axedale)	Feb Feb Mar	1.3 0.6 0.85	18,500 1,500	40,000
180 1.3	500	5,000
Corryong Creek	Apr	2.5	2,500
Craigmuir Lake (Mooroopna)	Mar	1.0		1,000
Crusoe Reservoir (Bendigo)	Mar	1.0		3,000
Cudgewa Creek	Jan	0.94	5,000
Cullulleraine Lake	Jan Mar	0.8 1.3	10,000	10,000
Eildon Lake	Dec 09 Jan Feb Feb Feb Mar Mar Mar Apr	1.0 0.8 0.6 1.8 1.0 3.3 1.1 2.8 2.8	100,000 100,000
Water stocked	Month 2010	Fish size (g)	Murray cod	Golden perch	Trout cod	Australian bass	Silver perch	Macquarie perch
Eldorado Dredge Hole	Mar	1.0		500
Eppalock Lake	Jan Mar	0.8 1.0	20,000	70,000
Expedition Pass Reservoir	Feb Mar	2.0 2.0						2,800 500
Glenmaggie Lake	Jan Jan	0.8 0.8				20,000 2,000
Goldfields Reservoir (Maryborough)	Mar	1.0		2,000
Goulburn River (Below Shepparton) (Above Shepparton)	Dec 09 Mar Mar Dec 09 Mar	0.8 2.3 1.3 0.8 2.3	25,000 25,000	4,700 5,300 10,000
Green Lake (Sea Lake)	Mar	1.0		12,500
Greens Lake (Corop)	Jan Mar	0.94 1.0	10,000	20,000
Gunbower Creek (Cohuna to Gunbower)	Jan	0.8	20,000
Harrietville Dredge Hole	Jan Mar	0.94 1.0	200	500
Hollands Creek (Tatong)	Feb	2.0						250
Hume Lake	Jan Feb	1.0 0.9		100,000 50,000
Inglewood Reservoir	Mar Mar	1.0 1.2		1,000			1,000
Kangaroo Lake (Lake Charm)	Dec 09 Jan Feb	200 180 1.3	1,558 442	20,000
Kerferd Lake (Beechworth)	Jan	0.9			3,500
Kialla Lakes (Shepparton)	Mar	1.0		1,500
Water stocked	Month 2010	Fish size (g)	Murray cod	Golden perch	Trout cod	Australian bass	Silver perch	Macquarie perch
Kiewa River	Jan	180	500
King Lake (Rutherglen)	Mar	1.0		1,000
Kow Swamp	Feb	1.3		30,000
Laanecoorie Reservoir	Mar	1.0		10,000
Little Murray River (Swanhill)	Jan	0.8	10,000
Loddon River	Dec 09 Mar	1.0 1.0	20,000	50,000
Lowanna Lake (Shepp)	Mar	1.0		500
Marysville Dam	Nov 09	200		200
Mitta Mitta River (Pig Point)	Jan	0.94	10,000
Nagambie Lake	Dec 09 Dec 09 Dec 09 Dec 09 Dec 09 Feb Mar	3.3 4.9 5.0 0.8 1.0 1.0 1.0	7,340 6,388 3,312 10,000 22,960	80,000 120000
Nillahcootie Lake	Feb	0.9		20,000
Pyramid Creek	Dec 09 Mar	1.0 1.0	10,000	10,000
Rabl Park Lake (Murtoa)	Mar	1.0		2,000
Reedy Lake (First) Kerang	Jan Feb	180 1.3	500	5,000
Richardson River (Rich Avon)	Mar	1.0		10,000
Sambell Lake (Beechworth)	Jan Mar Mar	0.9 2.0 1.0		2,750 2,750	3,500
Serpentine Creek (Durham Ox)	Mar	1.0		5,000
Sevens Creek (Downstream of Euroa)	Mar	1.0		5,000
Serviceton North Reservoir	Mar	1.0		5,000
Sumsion Gardens Lake (Wodonga)	Mar	1.0		500
Taylor Lake (Horsham)	Jan Mar Mar	0.94 1.0 1.2	20,000	40,000			20,000
Tchum Lake (Birchip)	Mar	1.0		12,500
Tungamah Weir	Mar	1.0		2,000
Victoria Lake (Maryborough)	Mar	1.0		10,000
Wimmera River	Nov 09 Mar Mar Apr	0.8 1.0 1.2 0.8		45,000 35,000 8,800			10,000
Total			434,140	1,163,000	7,000	52,000	31,000	3,500

 

Weight

	Murray cod (kg)	Golden perch (kg)	Trout cod (kg)	Silver perch (kg)	Australian bass	Macquarie perch
Fry (0.5 to 5g)	561.6	1,279.1	6.2	37.2	41.6	6.45
Yearling (150 to 200g)	662	40	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
Total	1,223.6	1319.1	6.2	37.2	41.6	6.45

Transport

Kilometers travelled	Total man days
42,152	92

Key

1	Fry	0.5g to 5g
2	Yearlings	150g to 200g

Notes

Murray Cod	Yearling Murray cod Dart Tagged
Eildon Lake	‘One Off’ Bush Fire Recovery Stocking

Acknowledgements

This Agnote was developed by Karina Pierotti, Fisheries Victoria – Fisheries Management. May 2010.