The bacterium Edwardsiella ictaluri is considered to be one of the most significant pathogens of farmed catfish in the United States of America and has also caused mortalities in farmed and wild fishes in many other parts of the world. E. ictaluri is not believed to be present in wild fish populations in Australia, although it has previously been detected in imported ornamental fishes held in quarantine facilities. In an attem...

A pilot study targeting sawfishes in the southern Pilbara region of Western Australia, which is undergoing a major expansion in human activity, was conducted using gillnets during April and October 2011 in the Ashburton Estuary and adjacent mangrove creeks. Catch per unit effort was greatest in the Ashburton Estuary in October, due to an influx of green sawfish Pristis zijsron pups, and was orders of magnitude higher than prev...

This experimental study compared the precision and accuracy of the biological intercept ( BI ), modified fry ( MF ) and time‐varying growth ( TVG ) backcalculation models in estimating the early growth of the tropical freshwater purple‐spotted gudgeon Mogurnda adspersa . Larvae were reared up to 41 days post hatching under two temperatures and four different feeding regimes. Food and temperature treatments induced complex grow...

Species richness records from replicated deployments of baited remote underwater video stations ( BRUVS ) and unbaited remote underwater video stations ( UBRUVS ) in shallow ( 1 m) water were compared with those obtained from using fyke nets, gillnets and beach seines. Maximum species richness (14 species) was achieved through a combination of conventional netting and camera‐based techniques. Chanos chanos was the only species...

Barriers to migration are a major threat to freshwater fish populations. A novel measurement of swimming speed performance and an analytical model were used to calculate the probability that endangered Macquarie perch, Macquaria australasica Cuvier, can swim through instream structures. Over the range of river discharges (2.7–166 ML day −1 ) and temperatures (10–22 °C) examined, M. australasica could successfully pass through...

Radio‐tracking was used in monitoring the reintroduction of on‐grown 2 year‐old trout cod Maccullochella macquariensis (Percichthyidae) (a nationally endangered freshwater fish) in both a large and small upland river. Thirty‐six radio‐tagged M. macquariensis were stocked into a site in each of the Murrumbidgee and Cotter Rivers (Australian Capital Territory). Restricted dispersal occurred in both rivers, with both samples of M...