Episode:25Saving Australia’s native fish
Guests:Dr. Wayne Koster, Freshwater Ecologist
Freshwater fish ecologist Dr. Wayne Koster shares his research on native fish recovery across Victoria and south-eastern Australia, with a particular focus on movement and spawning ecology. The conversation explores how environmental flow recommendations can restore suitable conditions for fish in regulated rivers, and what understanding habitat requirements really means for the long-term conservation of riverine species.
Show Notes
In today’s episode, Siwan speaks with Dr. Wayne Koster of the Arthur Rylah Institute, at the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action, to talk native fish recovery and research. Wayne leads research projects on native fish ecology and conservation across Victoria and more broadly in south-eastern Australia. The focus of much of Wayne’s recent work has been on the movement and spawning ecology and conservation implications for riverine fishes, particularly the development of flow regimes for fish in regulated rivers. He also does some fascinating work monitoring and tracking eels in our rivers and oceans.
"For the Goulburn River I'd like to see a resurgence of some of the threatened species, like Trout cod, and for some of the less common species, like Freshwater catfish and River blackfish, that we start to see a resurgence of those species as well."
— Dr. Wayne Koster (Arthur Rylah Institute)
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