scholarly journals The future for managing recreational fisheries in the Murray-Darling Basin

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 75-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt J. Barwick ◽  
John D. Koehn ◽  
David Crook ◽  
Charles R. Todd ◽  
Cameron Westaway ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Recreational Fisheries ◽  
Murray Darling Basin ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals Salinity Management in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Hart ◽  
Glen Walker ◽  
Asitha Katupitiya ◽  
Jane Doolan
Keyword(s):  
Land Surface ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Active Management ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Governance System ◽  
European Settlement ◽  
Murray Darling Basin ◽  
The Future ◽  
Salinity Management

The southern Murray–Darling Basin (MDB) is particularly vulnerable to salinity problems. Much of the Basin’s landscape and underlying groundwater is naturally saline with groundwater not being suitable for human or irrigation use. Since European settlement in the early 1800s, two actions—the clearance of deep-rooted native vegetation for dryland agriculture and the development of irrigation systems on the Riverine Plains and Mallee region—have resulted in more water now entering the groundwater systems, resulting in mobilization of the salt to the land surface and to rivers. While salinity has been a known issue since the 1960s, it was only in the mid-1980s that was recognized as one of the most significant environmental and economic challenges facing the MDB. Concerted and cooperative action since 1988 by the Commonwealth and Basin state governments under a salinity management approach implemented over the past 30 years has resulted in salinity now being largely under control, but still requiring on-going active management into the future. The approach has involved the development of three consecutive salinity strategies governing actions from 1988 to 2000, from 2001 to 2015, and the most recent from 2016 to 2030. The basis of the approach and all three strategies is an innovative, world-leading salinity management framework consisting of: An agreed salinity target; joint works and measures to reduce salt entering the rivers; and an agreed accountability and governance system consisting of a system of salinity credits to offset debits, a robust and agreed method to quantify the credits and debits, and a salinity register to keep track of credits and debits. This paper first provides background to the salinity issue in the MDB, then reviews the three salinity management strategies, the various actions that have been implemented through these strategies to control salinity, and the role of the recent Basin Plan in salinity management. We then discuss the future of salinity in the MDB given that climate change is forecast to lead to a hotter, drier and more variable climate (particularly more frequent droughts), and that increased salt loads to the River Murray are predicted to come from the lower reaches of the Mallee region. Finally, we identify the key success factors of the program.

Are rural land practices in the Murray-Darling Basin a threat to the environment?

Soil Research ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 1037 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Blackmore ◽  
Daniel Connell
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Murray Darling Basin ◽  
The Future ◽  
Environmental Importance

Over the last 150 years Australia has gained great economic rewards from the use of the natural resources of the Murray-Darling Basin. However, many of the methods used to gain those benefits are now seen as unsustainable. To maintain the region’s productivity in the future, a different approach to managing its natural resources is needed. This paper explains the economic and environmental importance of the Basin, describes the degradation that has occurred, and summarises the efforts being made to achieve sustainable management of the region.

Contribution of stocked fish to riverine populations of golden perch (Macquaria ambigua) in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia

2016 ◽  
Vol 67 (10) ◽  
pp. 1401 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Crook ◽  
Damien J. O'Mahony ◽  
Bronwyn M. Gillanders ◽  
Andrew R. Munro ◽  
Andrew C. Sanger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Size ◽  
Recreational Fisheries ◽  
Catch Per Unit Effort ◽  
Age Classes ◽  
Murray Darling Basin ◽  
Murray River ◽  
Native Fishes ◽  
Release Location ◽  
Three Rivers ◽  
Natural Recruitment

Stocking of native fishes is conducted to augment riverine fisheries in many parts of the world, yet most stocking activities are conducted without empirical information on their effectiveness or impacts. In the Murray–Darling Basin (MDB), Australia, stocking has been underway for several decades to maintain recreational fisheries. We stocked chemically tagged golden perch (Macquaria ambigua) fingerlings in three rivers to determine the proportions of stocked fish within populations of the species. Stocked sites were monitored for up to 5 years in the Murrumbidgee River, Edward River and Billabong Creek and non-stocked sites were monitored in the Murray River. Catch per unit effort of stocked year classes increased substantially in Billabong Creek, with stocked fish contributing 100 (2005), 79 (2006) and 92% (2007). Chemically tagged fish comprised 18–38% of the respective age classes in the Murrumbidgee and Edward rivers and there was little evidence of natural recruitment in the non-stocked Murray River. Tagged fish generally attained the legal minimum size within 4 years and had dispersed up to 60km from the original release location. Our results demonstrate that artificial stocking has the potential to strongly influence the abundance and population structure of golden perch in rivers of the MDB.

scholarly journals The future of recreational fisheries: Advances in science, monitoring, management, and practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 211 ◽  
pp. 247-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob W. Brownscombe ◽  
Kieran Hyder ◽  
Warren Potts ◽  
Kyle L. Wilson ◽  
Kevin L. Pope ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Recreational Fisheries ◽  
The Future

Angling into the Future: Ten Commandments for Recreational Fisheries Science, Management, and Stewardship in a Good Anthropocene

2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura K. Elmer ◽  
Lisa A. Kelly ◽  
Stephanie Rivest ◽  
S. Clay Steell ◽  
William M. Twardek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Recreational Fisheries ◽  
Fisheries Science ◽  
Ten Commandments ◽  
The Future ◽  
Science Management

Recommendations for the future of recreational fisheries to prepare the social-ecological system to cope with change

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 177-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Arlinghaus ◽  
S. J. Cooke ◽  
S. G. Sutton ◽  
A. J. Danylchuk ◽  
W. Potts ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecological System ◽  
Recreational Fisheries ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future
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