March 2026 Inland Fisheries Service News Archive

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New Calder River resident! Rainbow trout fingerling hatched as part of the 2025 egg box trial
March 3, 2026

Success of Egg Hatching Box Trial Confirmed

The Inland Fisheries Service recently completed an electrofishing survey of the Calder and Inglis Rivers in Northwest Tasmania. This survey followed the release of around 7,000 wild rainbow trout as part of the egg hatching box trial conducted in Spring last year, which was facilitated under Permit by local volunteers.  Pleasingly, plentiful rainbow trout fingerlings...