As the host of The Full Scale Fishing Adventures, Lubin Pfeiffer knows first-hand how much the Murray-Darling Basin needs a helping hand. He was only too happy to help with OzFish Unlimited’s latest re-snagging efforts in the Lower Darling, one of the largest in-stream restoration projects by Australia’s recreational fishing charity.
Do fish care about flow?
You bet they do. Flows are important to trigger breeding, supplying food, and allowing fish passage through a river system. Natural flow patterns mean more fish. Fish not only care about flow, they require flow for all stages of their life cycles. Let’s break it down into stages, the first
The Darling River in 2018-19 was in an extreme drought. There were zero flows, blue-green algae and fish kills, as well as extensive kills of freshwater mussels along much of the river. So how natural was that drought?
Dr Martin Mallen-Cooper, an OzFish
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