TROUT cod have been reintroduced into the Larger Goulburn River to re-establish the
historic inhabitants and help take one different step in route of recovering the endangered native
freshwater fish species all through its former range throughout the Murray-Darling Basin.
Ultimate week, Victorian Fisheries Authority, Arthur Rylah Institute and leisure fishers
intensively surveyed lakes Sambell and Kerferd, near Beechworth in northern Victoria to
catch mature trout cod using electrofishing, fyke netting and mesh netting methods.
The trout cod had been transported to the Larger Goulburn River (upstream of Lake Eildon and
Jamieson) the place they’d been inserted with acoustic tags by fisheries scientists after which
launched into their new riverine habitat.
The acoustic tags will help the crew monitor survival and movement of translocated trout
cod to inform future translocations.
Interpretive signage is being put in at entry elements alongside the river to let leisure
fishers and most of the people know trout cod are present in these waters and the way in which they’ll help to
deal with them.
Trout cod had been historically present throughout the Larger Goulburn River and this launch will
kickstart re-establishing the inhabitants earlier to the stocking of trout cod fingerlings into the
Larger Goulburn River deliberate for subsequent Summer time season.
By re-establishing populations of trout cod all through the Murray-Darling Basin, we switch nearer
to downlisting the species and recovering them as a leisure fish species as quickly as additional –
the ultimate phrase goal of the Nationwide Trout Cod Restoration Plan.