December 2016 Inland Fisheries Service News Archive
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Dec. 12, 2016
Big female carp removed from Lake Sorell!
Recently a 1.9kg female carp was caught from a big fyke net on the Silver Plains Marsh at Lake Sorell. This is the biggest carp caught so far this season, and had the largest proportion of eggs per body weight than any other fish from the 2009 cohort ever caught. This indicates that this fish...
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Dec. 12, 2016
Carp Program on high alert.
High rainfall over winter saw both lakes Sorell and Crescent go above Full Supply Level (FSL). In early October Lake Sorell went to 160mm above (FSL) and Lake Crescent 210mm. This put our carp management program into the high risk level because there was a chance the lakes would spill and open up sites to...
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