Inland Fisheries Service News
Penstock Lagoon evaporation monitoring
CSIRO and Hydro Tasmania have partnered on a project which aims to measure and model evaporation from Penstock Lagoon. Evaporation is a significant concern for managing water reservoirs, particularly due to their large surface areas. Accurately predicting these losses is important, especially amidst climate change impacts on water security. To measure evaporation, CSIRO have developed a...
Arthurs Lake Fish Survey December 2024
During the first week of December the IFS completed an electrofishing survey on Arthurs Lake. This survey (which is now completed annually) was first done in 2022, when 200 otoliths (ear bones) were collected from a sample of 200 brown trout for the purpose of ageing fish. This year, over a two day period, the IFS captured...
Angler access track maintenance
Over the past week the Inland Fisheries Service has completed annual maintenance on the access tracks to the Meander River at Warners Road, along with Camden Lake and Four Springs Lake . The Meander tracks provide foot access to the challenging and picturesque part of the river downstream of Meander Dam. This part of the river...
Lake Augusta Road repairs
The Parks and Wildlife Service have advised that they are undertaking repairs to the Lake Augusta Road this week. This will affect traffic from the Central Plateau Conservation Area boundary at the cattle grid, through to the Thousand Lakes Lodge. Please be advised to drive with caution on this section of the road and obey...
Tyenna River restoration progress
The Derwent Catchment Project (DCP) ran another successful volunteer planting day on the Tyenna River at Maydena in late November. A further 240 native trees and shrubs were planted, taking the plantings to date to over 500. It was very pleasing to see that the previous plantings from May 2024 had a 99% success rate...
