Inland Fisheries Service News
Arthurs Lake Fishery Performance Assessment – September 2016
During the last week of September the Inland Fisheries Service undertook a survey of the brown trout population at Arthurs Lake. The survey was planned as a pilot study in preparation for a larger tagging survey being considered for 2017. Despite being on a smaller scale, this survey produced some interesting information about the Arthurs...
Whitebait season opens tomorrow
The whitebait season opens tomorrow, Saturday I October. The season is open on the following waters: Duck River Forth River Great Forester River Henty River Huon River Inglis River Mersey River Montagu River Pieman River River Derwent Rubicon River (Except 50 m above and below the water gauging weir kanamaluka/ Tamar River (Including the Trevallyn...
Scientists from New Zealand visit
Nick Ling, Grant Tempero, and Brendan Hicks from the School of Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand visited Tasmania in September. They came for the Australian Society of Fish Biology conference. After the conference, they sampled several locations for the native common jollytails. Australia shares the common jollytail with New Zealand, Chile, Patagonia, Argentina, the...
Salmon Ponds fishing is now better than ever
We have not only fixed, but improved, the disabled fishing platforms and surrounding area at the Salmon Ponds. The winter floods cause a lot of damage making the area unusable. We had to remove major log jams in the river and completely restore the space around the platforms. Rocks left by the flood had made...
Rainbow Trout spawning run promises great rewards
Some of our inland waters are classed as rainbow trout waters. These have slightly different season dates to our brown trout waters. They open Saturday, 1 October 2016. Tasmania’s designated rainbow trout waters are: • Dee Lagoon • Junction Lake • Lake Meston • Lake Rowallan • Lake Skinner • Lake Youd • Mersey River...
