All posts tagged "Water"
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Water for the environment: how the benefits to native fish outweigh carp risk
Written by the Victorian Environmental Water Holder (VEWH) Carp are the rabbits of our waterways and occupy a wide range of aquatic habitats, including rivers, estuaries, wetlands, lakes, reservoirs, and irrigation networks. While they live in all types of...
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Catastrophic Greens Lake Fish Kill Imminent
Image: Elizabeth Merritt from the Save Greens Lake Recreation Reserve Facebook page VRFish is calling on Acting Water Minister, Richard Wynne, to immediately deliver water to Greens Lake to prevent an impending and devastating fish kill from occurring. Greens...
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Saving the Lower Goulburn Before it’s Flushed Away
Late last year, we began advocating to save the Goulburn River from being treated like a water pipe to service water irrigators hundreds of kilometres away in the lower Murray. It’s never been more important for recreational fishers to...
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Goulburn to Murray Trade Rule Review
The Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) needs our input to proposed changes to the Goulburn to Murray trade rule. Inter-valley trade, where enormous amounts of water are moved from the Goulburn river to the Murray River,...
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It’s a River, Not a Water Pipe
Another summer and another case of a high-flowing lower Goulburn River to meet water demands further downstream. In recent years the river has been used Victoria’s largest water pipe and its not good for river health and its bad...
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Goulburn River Inter-valley Water Transfers
VRFish welcomes the announcement by Minister for Water Lisa Neville this week that the Victorian Government will be taking steps to cap the amount of water allowed to be sent down the mighty Goulburn River over summer as part...
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Draft Victoria’s North and Murray Water Resource Plan
The Victorian Government has released the draft Victoria’s North and Murray Water Resource Plan for public comment. This Water Resource Plan is a key component of documenting Victoria’s water resource management arrangements to meet the requirements of the Murray-Darling...
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Dying Darling River Disgrace
VRFish, the peak body representing Victoria’s 838,000 recreational fishers, is appalled to witness the current plight of the Darling River in NSW where tens of thousands of native fish, including iconic Murray Cod, are perishing. Recreational fishers have been...
