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1992 March: Lees Creek (ACT) Trout Eradication. Pesticide: Rotentone

Local eradication of trout from streams using rotenone: the Australian experience
Mark Lintermans 1,3 and Tarmo Raadik 2,3 1 Environment ACT, P.O. Box 144 Lyneham, ACT 2602, Australia 2Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, Department of Natural
Resources and Environment, 123 Brown St., Heidelberg 3084, Australia3
Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology
There have been two Australian projects which have attempted to eradicate trout
from streams and this paper outlines the issues, methodology and lessons learnt
from both of these projects. The first project was conducted in Lees Creek in the
Australian Capital Territory and was designed as a trial to investigate the feasibility
of trout eradication using the ichthyocide rotenone, and to examine whether the
native fish mountain galaxias Galaxias olidus (Günther) would naturally
recolonise the stream. The second project was conducted in the Goulburn River
catchment in Victoria and formed part of a recovery programme for the nationally
threatened fish barred galaxias Galaxias fuscus (Mack).
https://www.doc.govt.nz/documents/science-and-technical/pf10lintermans.pdf
This entry was posted in Fauna Impacts, Water Pollution on April 11, 2015 by Anthony.

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