Inland Fisheries Service News
Inland Fisheries Service - Festive Season Office Closure
The Inland Fisheries Service head office will close for the Festive Season from Tuesday, 23 December 2024 at 2:00 pm and will return to normal business hours on Thursday, 2 January 2025. We will still have our Fisheries Officers out and about in the field, so please say hello if you see us. Angling licences...
Lake Leake angler lands early Christmas gift
A second tagged trout has been caught, as part the Inland Fisheries Service (IFS) Tasmanian Tagged Trout Promotion. The promotion is part of the Tasmanian Government’s commitment to support and grow freshwater angling participation, with the IFS tagging and releasing 16 brown trout each valued at $5,000, into nine lakes across the state. After the...
Penstock Lagoon evaporation monitoring
CSIRO and Hydro Tasmania have partnered on a project which aims to measure and model evaporation from Penstock Lagoon. Evaporation is a significant concern for managing water reservoirs, particularly due to their large surface areas. Accurately predicting these losses is important, especially amidst climate change impacts on water security. To measure evaporation, CSIRO have developed a...
Arthurs Lake Fish Survey December 2024
During the first week of December the IFS completed an electrofishing survey on Arthurs Lake. This survey (which is now completed annually) was first done in 2022, when 200 otoliths (ear bones) were collected from a sample of 200 brown trout for the purpose of ageing fish. This year, over a two day period, the IFS captured...
Angler access track maintenance
Over the past week the Inland Fisheries Service has completed annual maintenance on the access tracks to the Meander River at Warners Road, along with Camden Lake and Four Springs Lake . The Meander tracks provide foot access to the challenging and picturesque part of the river downstream of Meander Dam. This part of the river...
