Inland Fisheries Service News
Atlantic salmon stocked at Lake Kara
This week (third week of April 2016) 420 Atlantic salmon were released into Lake Kara. Thank you to Saltas at Wayatinah for providing the salmon. The salmon averaged 1kg in size. Anglers are reminded that there is a bag limit of five fish at Lake Kara with the minimum size 300mm with no more than...
Works on the Lake Echo power station intake at Echo Dam
Tasmania is facing an unprecedented combination of below average rainfall and an extended Basslink outage caused by a fault in the cable. In response to these challenges and to maintain energy security, Hydro Tasmania is conducting works on the Lake Echo dam. About the works Hydro Tasmania will remove a blockage of sediment material, upstream...
Redfin perch survey in Plenty River
The Salmon Ponds has been run as a hatchery and fish rearing facility for 150 years. Whilst visitation is now the primary role of the historic site, the facility does continue to hatch and rear trout on a small scale for stocking of waters around the state. In the late 1980’s a Derwent pump and...
Vegetation management at Brumbys Creek
Hydro Tasmania will be commencing vegetation management works at Brumbys Creek in the vicinity of Fisheries Lane, commencing in the week of 18 April 18 2016. Access to the creek banks and waterways within and upstream of the area known as the Duck Pond will be closed to unauthorised persons for the duration of the...
2016 annual monitoring program of Galaxias auratus completed
The annual survey of the golden galaxia, (Galaxias auratus) in lakes Crescent and Sorell has been completed and healthy, robust populations were confirmed. Galaxias auratus is a listed threatened species and this small fish species is endemic to these lakes. The annual monitoring program involves the setting of a number of fine mesh fyke nets...
