Resource Library

For a full list of references, please go to the Publications page

Demonstration Reaches

• Upper Murrumbidgee Demonstration Reach
• Dewfish Demonstration Reach – Condamine Catchment
• Katfish Demonstration Reach
• Hollands Creek Demonstration Reach
• Ovens Demonstration Reach
• Namoi Demonstration Reach
• Brewarrina to Bourke Demonstration Reach

Finbox – A Demonstration Reach Toolbox

• Finbox Overview
• Community Involvement
• Planning
• Onground Interventions
• Monitoring & Evaluation
• Case Studies
• Demonstration Reach Manual

Engagement Approaches

• Building a brand
• Visual presentations and videos
• Written materials
  • Fact sheets and posters
  • Books and guidelines
• Oral histories
  • True Tales of the Trout Cod
  • Talking Fish
• Demonstrating how things work
  • Live fish displays
  • Carp cage demonstrations
  • Fishway model
• Field days
• Forums and workshops
• Native Fish Strategy tours and Native Fish Awareness Week
• Sustaining River Life: Education Package
• Community activities
  • Fishy games
  • 3D fabric fish and silicon fish
  • Creating artwork
  • Trivia, prizes and food
  • Music

Engaging People

• Engaging industry and business
• Engaging community groups and landholders
• Engaging Natural Resources Management and Catchment Management Agencies
• Engaging Federal, State and Territory Governments
• Engaging Water Authorities
• Engaging scientists
• Engaging schools
• Engaging recreational fishers
• Engaging the media
• Engaging Local Government
• Engaging Irrigation and Agriculture Industries
• Engaging with Indigenous Communities
• Engaging conservation groups
• Engaging commercial fishers
• Engaging the aquaculture industry

Fishes of the Murray-Darling Basin

Fish Habitats

• Managing fish translocation and stocking in the Murray-Darling Basin
• Native Fish Habitat Associations in the Murray Darling Basin
• ‘Pilot testing’ the Habitat Management Areas concept on the Macquarie River
• Native fish hotspots in the Murray-Darling Basin
• Drought refuges for native fish in the Murray-Darling Basin
• Resistance and resilience of Murray-Darling Basin fishes to drought
• Habitat Management Areas ‘toolkit’ for the Murray-Darling Basin
• Protection and enhancement of Murray Cod populations in anabranches
• Managing native fish during drought
• Impact of cold water pollution mitigation from Keepit Dam, Namoi River
• Audit of water quality problems in the Murray-Darling Basin
• Resnagging downstream of Yarrawonga weir
• Potential for thermal shock in the Murray-Darling Basin

Fish Movement And Migration

• Using hydroacoustics to monitor fish migration
• A centralised management system for Passive Integrated Transponder tag data in the Murray-Darling Basin
• Downstream transport of larval and juvenile fish in the Murray River
• Fish recruitment in Barmah-Millewa Forest during flooding and non-flooding
• Effects of environmental flow allocations on the lateral movements of native fish in the Barmah-Millewa Forest
• Mesoscale movements of small and medium-sized fish in the Murray-Darling Basin
• Fishway options for weirs of the Northern Murray-Darling Basin
• Assessment of an infrared fish counter (VAKI Riverwatcher) in the Murray-Darling Basin
• Impacts of weirs on downstream passage of native fish in the Murray-Darling Basin
• Impacts of managed flows on fish spawning and recruitment
• Fish Screening Guidelines for water diversions in the Murray-Darling Basin
• Sea to Hume fishways – monitoring outcomes
• Thinking about thermal pollution
• An assessment of a Dual-Frequency Identification Sonar (DIDSON) To compliment fish migration studies in the Murray Darling Basin
• Innovations in vertical slot fishway design
• Innovative fish counting using split-beam hydroacoustic technology
• Downstream movement of fish in the Murray-Darling Basin

Introduced Fish

• Carp
  • Carp harvesting and disposal at Murray River Fishways
  • Regional Carp Plans
  • Integrated pest management for carp at Brenda Park wetland (SA)
  • Wetland carp harvesting in Lake Bonney (SA)
  • Integrated pest management for carp in Queensland
  • Evaluating carp exclusion screens
  • Carp separation cages
  • ‘If you can’t beat them…eat them’ preparing and cooking Carp
• Gambusia
  • Assessing the recovery of fish communities following removal of the introduced Eastern gambusia
  • Small fish….big problem! Gambusia
  • Angry when outnumbered: aggressive Gambusia
• Redfin
  • Reckoning with Redfin
• Tilapia
  • Potential invader of the MDB: Tilapia
  • Reducing the risk of Tilapia
  • Actions to exclude Tilapia from the MDB

Identifying alien fishes in the Murray-Darling Basin

Native Fish

• Murray cod
  • Management of Murray cod in the Murray-Darling Basin
  • Murray cod management model
• Collation and analysis of Murray-Darling native fish datasets
• Strategies to improve post release survival of hatchery-reared threatened fish species
• Soniferous fish: counting Murray-Darling fishes using sound
• Impacts of native fish stocking on fish within the Murray-Darling Basin
• Susceptibility of MDB native fish to Epizootic Haematopoietic Necrosis Virus (EHNV)
• Population models for native fish
• Scoping the knowledge requirements for Murray crayfish
• Methods for marking stocked fish
• Emergency responses for managing native fish
• Protocol for reporting and investigating fish kills in the Murray-Darling Basin
• True Tales of the Trout Cod
• Management of genetic resources within the Murray-Darling Basin
• Fishes of the Murray-Darling Basin: an Introductory Guide
• Murray-Darling Freshwater Fish Information System
• Securing the southern purple-spotted gudgeon in the southern Murray-Darling Basin

Native Fish Fact Sheets

Native Fish Strategy

Talking Fish

True Tales of the Trout Cod