Inland Fisheries Service News
Carp Workshop 2017
The Carp Management Program (the Program) held its yearly workshop on 10May. We looked over the past year's work and started planning for the coming year. Dr. Sean Tracey, a Senior Research Fellow from the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, provided an independent review of the workshop and helped develop the plan for the...
A tidy up at Four Springs
This week we cut down all the wattle trees and other saplings along the full length of the dam wall at Four Springs Lake. A number of larger gums and black woods were dropped as well. This is done every few years to protect the integrity of the structure. We will check for re growth...
Gunns Marsh Road to Jonah Bay is now closed.
The Gunns Marsh Road to Jonah Bay is now closed. The road will be reopened one week prior to the start of the 2017-18 angling season.
Latest Lake Sorell carp report
This quarterly report looks at January to March 2017. During this period we removed 135 carp from Lake Sorell. This is compared to 248 carp between January and March 2016. We expected less because there are less carp left in the lake. Most of the fish were caught using gill nets in deep water as...
Salmon Pond closed - Tuesday 9 May 2017
The Salmon Ponds is closed to all visitors on Tuesday 9 May. This is to enable Tas Networks to undertake essential works. The Salmon Ponds will be open as normal on Wednesday 10 May.
