Inland Fisheries Service News
IFS cleans up at Lake Crescent
A short summary of the clean-up activity at Lake Crescent. Last Tuesday the IFS team pulled on the gloves, picked up the garbage bags took part in Business Clean Up Australia Day. The clean-up area was the Lake Crescent boat ramp and car park, the road verges from the Lake Crescent screens out to Dennistoun...
Woods Lake navigation light repaired
The navigation light at Woods Lake has been repaired. We received reports in February that the navigation light at the Woods Lake boat ramp was not working. Last week Neil Morrow headed out to Woods Lake to make the repairs. We would like to thank the anglers who reported the fault. If you see something...
Mersey River flow to be reduced
Hydro Tasmania will be reducing the flow at Mersey River at Liena to 1.5 cumecs tomorrow (2 March). The target flow for the Mersey at Liena is presently 1.7 cumecs and declining, and tomorrow will be at approximately 1.5 cumecs. As there is an outage of Rowallan power station starting on Monday 6 March the...
BRONTE LAGOON PICNIC SHELTER & SURVEYORS MONUMENT UPGRADE
A notice from the Southern Highlands Progress Association: The Southern Highlands Progress Association has undertaken the upgrade of this site over the summer with the assistance of Central Highlands Council. The council regravelled both the parking areas, provided the materials for repairs to the shelter and a new information panel at the monument about its...
Latest carp update
This quarterly report looks at October to December 2016. This quarter we removed 289 carp from Lake Sorell. This is compared to 480 carp between October and December 2015. We expected less because there are less carp left in the lake. This season we used a very different strategy to catch the carp than last...
