1992 March: Lees Creek (ACT) Trout Eradication. Pesticide: Rotentone Center map Traffic Bicycling Transit Get Directions 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). http://www.doc.govt.nz/documents/science-and-technical/pf10lintermans.pdf