The following link will take you to the draft recovery plan for Maccas:
http://www.environment.gov.au/biodivers ... arie-perch
Comments on the plan should be submitted by 1 September 2017.
You will see from the contents just how bad the situation with Maccas is with complete extinction across most of their original range and just fragmentary and disconnected small populations remaining. The hatchery production of Maccas is also minimal when compared with other species - in the thousands rather than hundreds of thousands. Hatchery production to date has also mainly relied on fish captured from the wild rather than brood stock - which further depletes the exiting wild population.
There is no shortage of good ideas and positive intentions in the recovery plan but funding it and putting it into effect is something else!
Paul
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Re: DRAFT RECOVERY PLAN FOR MACQUARIE PERCH
Would be nice for such a great fish to recover from the threat of extinction and re-establish self-sustaining populations. It's possible. The great Murray cod is a prime example of what can be achieved.....
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Re: DRAFT RECOVERY PLAN FOR MACQUARIE PERCH
speaking of which, where has Truedogz gone?
2015/16 Fisting Victoria Species comp total: 289cm
Brown Trout: 37cm
Flathead: 51cm; Squid: 36cm; Australian Salmon: 51cm; Snapper 46cm; Silver Trevally 23cm; KGW: 45cm
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Brown Trout: 37cm
Flathead: 51cm; Squid: 36cm; Australian Salmon: 51cm; Snapper 46cm; Silver Trevally 23cm; KGW: 45cm
Major Sponsor: Rim Master Tackle
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Re: DRAFT RECOVERY PLAN FOR MACQUARIE PERCH
Perhaps Truedogz is back up in the high country at his secret Macca spot