Inland Fisheries Service News

ANGLERS, WE NEED YOUR HELP!
The pest fish species, Redfin perch are present in the Mersey River To work out how widely Redfin are spread in the Mersey River, its inflowing creeks and farm dams we need YOUR help. Over the coming months if you catch a Redfin perch in the Mersey River or its catchment, please, can you: Note...

Lake Dulverton stocking
On Monday 85 wild adult brown trout averaging 1kg were transferred from a fish salvage on the central plateau into Lake Dulverton. This was complimented today with a further 110 rainbow trout weighing up to 2kg. These fish were donated by Snowy Range Trout Fishery. All fish were stocked into the town side of the...

Carp Quarterly Report for July to September 2016
Our staff have been busy over winter preparing for the upcoming carp season. Despite the cold, we kept up the fishing in Lake Sorell. Seven carp were caught in gill nets during July, August and September. We put radio transmitters in four of these and released them back into the lake. Our Carp Management Program...

Great Lake Tie In
Graham Blight, coordinator, privided us this report on the recent Great Lake Tie In: After a 10 to 12 year break the once Bronte Tie - In was restarted at the Miena Community Hall on the 18th.Oct. The Tie - In is a coming together of fly tiers from around the State to share ideas...

Lake Echo dam wall boat ramp open
The Lake Echo dam wall boat ramp is open. The lake levels have improved allowing Hydro Tasmania to reopened it. As of today Lake Echo is -5.5m from Full Supply Level. This is an increase of 7 metres since May. All three boat ramps at Lake Echo are now open. We have received reports of...