Katarapko: Images from interview with Todd Goodman
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/12803' target='_blank'>Captive breeding</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/2485' target='_blank'>Endangered species</a>
Heather Goodall
Jodi Frawley
University of Technology, Sydney
2010-09-30
Murray-Darling Basin Authority
NSW Department of Primary Industries - NSW Fisheries
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Katarapko: Images from interview with Malcolm Wilksch
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/6272' target='_blank'>Floods</a>
Images from the Wilksch family album of the Murray RIver, Murray Cod, and floodwaters circa 1975.
Heather Goodall
Jodi Frawley
University of Technology, Sydney
2010-09-30
Murray-Darling Basin Authority
NSW Department of Primary Industries - NSW Fisheries
Malcom Wilksch
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Katarapko: Oral History of Malcolm Wilksch
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/6272' target='_blank'>Floods</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/1455' target='_blank'>Fisheries</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/4994' target='_blank'>Salinity</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85114241' target='_blank'>River engineering</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85011046' target='_blank'>Bait fishing</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/1455' target='_blank'>Fishing industry</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/7885' target='_blank'>Soldier settlement</a>
An interview in three parts with the Malcom Wilksch.
Born in 1935, Malcom is a professional fisherman. First taught to fish by his grandfather, he bought a professional licence in 1957.
Malcom talks about: soldier settlements around the time of the 1956 flood; government allocation of river sections for commercial fishing; professional fishing equipment and techniques; baiting methods; process of preparing and transporting fish for market, and market prices; diseased fish (‘Redfin were good carriers’); electrofishing techniques; deterioration of trees as a result of unnatural flooding and salinity in floodplains caused by the locks; impact on deteriorated floodplains on native fish (whereas carp thrive); yabbying after flood events; the social impact of insufficient income from commercial fishing; floods 1956, 1970s.
Heather Goodall
Jodi Frawley
University of Technology, Sydney
2010-09-30
Murray-Darling Basin Authority
NSW Department of Primary Industries - NSW Fisheries
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Katarapko: Oral History of Gil Stoneham, Gladys Stoneham, Peter Teakle, John Aston, and Clarence John
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85048775' target='_blank'>Fishes--Identification</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85102861' target='_blank'>Plants--Identification</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/4994' target='_blank'>Salinity</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/3312' target='_blank'>Environmental flows</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/6986' target='_blank'>Water levels</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/255' target='_blank'>Aboriginal culture</a>
<a href='http://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/items/show/401' target='_blank'>Aboriginal fish traps</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/1455' target='_blank'>Fishing industry</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/6272' target='_blank'>Floods</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/6010' target='_blank'>Family histories</a>
An interview in three parts with the Gil and Gladys Stoneham, Peter Teakle, John Aston, and Clarence John; professional fishers of the Murray River in the Renmark area. Gil is also a cut flower grower.
The group talk about: a wall structure built in 1959 which stopped flows and reduced water levels in Ral Ral Creek; the story behind the naming of Squabbily Creek; Aboriginal rock corrals and cooking places; professional fishing methods; family records of plant species (lucerne, hawthorn, rhubarb, nardoo) created by Bert Stoneham; disappearance of lobster in the 1960s; 1956 and 1970 floods; salt interception scheme.
Heather Goodall
Jodi Frawley
University of Technology, Sydney
2010-10-29
Murray-Darling Basin Authority
NSW Department of Primary Industries - NSW Fisheries
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Katarapko: Images from interview with Barry Porter
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93005906' target='_blank'>Lure fishing</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/5150' target='_blank'>Physical characteristics (Animals)</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/9651' target='_blank'>Dimensions</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85048745' target='_blank'>Fishes--Diseases</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/6010' target='_blank'>Family histories</a>
Barry Porter lives in Berri, in the Riverland area. Having worked on a pile driving barge, and working most of his life on the river, Barry has extensive knowledge of locks and weirs from the Murray mouth to Euston (Lock 15). He currently monitors and models salinity in the Murray and Riverland area.
Images were provided to the Talking Fish research team by Barry Porter. They include the testing of a variety of fishing lures at Katarapko Creek, evidence of fish disease (fin rot), and a selection of historical photos from his personal family archive.
Heather Goodall
Jodi Frawley
University of Technology, Sydney
2010-10-28
Murray-Darling Basin Authority
NSW Department of Primary Industries - NSW Fisheries
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Katarapko: Oral History of Barry Porter
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85145985' target='_blank'>Weirs</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/4994' target='_blank'>Salinity</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/665' target='_blank'>Family life</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/5067' target='_blank'>Diet</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/6272' target='_blank'>Floods</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85048775' target='_blank'>Fishes--Identification</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008905' target='_blank'>Fishes--Speciation</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/2477' target='_blank'>Weeds</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/3312' target='_blank'>Environmental flows</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/5257' target='_blank'>Wetlands</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/9862' target='_blank'>Native animals</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/6986' target='_blank'>Water levels</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/5150' target='_blank'>Physical characteristics (Animals)</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93005906' target='_blank'>Lure fishing</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074038.html' target='_blank'>Water temperature</a>
An interview in four parts with Barry Porter.
Born in 1949, Barry lives in Berri, in the Riverland area. Having worked on a pile driving barge and worked most his life on the river, Barry has extensive knowledge of locks and weirs from the Murray mouth to Euston (Lock 15). He currently monitors and models salinity in the Murray and Riverland area and also grows capers and caperberries.
Barry talks about: fishing in the 1950s as a cheap addition to the family diet; changes in fishing methods and equipment, including the exclusive use of lures; boat designs; professional fishing reaches/areas; yabbying – a ‘historic institution’ post flood event; changes observed in fish species, weeds, river flow, temperature, salinity; salt interception schemes; bathometric data; work with the palaeobotany group at Flinders University tracking floods by tree lines; water retention in wetlands; evaporation and disposal basins; wildlife observed over the years (kangaroo, echidna, bat, owl, possum, snake, birds, water rat), including Emu that swim; records of fish caught between 2002 and 2006. Mention of floods in 1956, 1974, 1975, 1981, 1990s. Other fish species mentioned: garfish (at Coffin Bay).
Heather Goodall
Jodi Frawley
University of Technology, Sydney
2010-10-28
Murray-Darling Basin Authority
NSW Department of Primary Industries - NSW Fisheries
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Katarapko: Images from interview with Howard Hendrick
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94007041' target='_blank'>Riparian areas</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/5397' target='_blank'>Erosion</a>
Howard Hendrick lives on the banks of the Murray River at Pyap, near Loxton. These images were taken on the day of his oral history interview with the Talking Fish team. Howard would like to see more water allowed to flow to help the wetlands maintain themselves for longer periods between high river cycles.
Heather Goodall
Jodi Frawley
University of Technology, Sydney
2010-10-01
Murray-Darling Basin Authority
NSW Department of Primary Industries - NSW Fisheries
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Katarapko: Oral History of Howard Hendrick
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85048775' target='_blank'>Fishes--Identification</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85102861' target='_blank'>Plants--Identification</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007102025' target='_blank'>Birds--Identification</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/3942' target='_blank'>Snakes</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94007041' target='_blank'>Riparian areas</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85011046' target='_blank'>Bait fishing</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/6272' target='_blank'>Floods</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/4994' target='_blank'>Salinity</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/832' target='_blank'>Irrigation</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/4120' target='_blank'>Local history</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/1634' target='_blank'>Military service</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/15036' target='_blank'>World War II</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/264' target='_blank'>Communities</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/7885' target='_blank'>Soldier settlement</a>
An interview in three parts with Howard Hendrick.
Born in Renmark in 1923, Howard lives on the banks of the Murray River at Pyap, near Loxton. He grew up in an underprivileged First World War settlement in Renmark, spending school holidays helping his father on the land picking dried fruit and tending to animals. Howard was a Royal Australian Air Force pilot and bomber in World War II, and commercial pilot for British Airways. When he returned with his brother from WWII he took up an ex-serviceman block near Loxton.
Howard recalls history about: soldier settlements after the First Word War (Renmark, Berri, Barmera, Waikerie); the mix of cultures in the population as a result of the World Wars; training at an army camp at Victor Harbour, and training as a fighter pilot at Deniliquin in 1942; the sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur; experiencing WWII first hand on the south coast of England and as a bomber pilot over Germany.
Howard also discusses: fishing at Ral Ral Creek growing up, a tributary of the Murray River; changes in fish species (the main three being Cod, Callop, Bony Bream); the number of trees and shade along the river bank; fishing methods used on the river bank, and types of bait (e.g. birds to catch shrimp, mussels to catch cod); changes observed in minor and major flood cycles; changes in salinity, and the resulting changes in irrigation practice in the Riverland; yabbying techniques and where they were most abundant; bird nesting and water bird species; snakes; vegetation; floods 1931 (Renmark), 1951, 1956, 1959 (Berri).
Also mentioned: Tree of Knowledge (Berri, marked with flood levels).
Heather Goodall
Jodi Frawley
University of Technology, Sydney
2010-10-01
Murray-Darling Basin Authority
NSW Department of Primary Industries - NSW Fisheries
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Katarapko: Oral History of Todd Goodman
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85048775' target='_blank'>Fishes--Identification</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85102861' target='_blank'>Plants--Identification</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85048621' target='_blank'>Fishes--Breeding</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/2485' target='_blank'>Endangered species</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85048655' target='_blank'>Fish stocking</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/5366' target='_blank'>Droughts</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/12803' target='_blank'>Captive breeding</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/3312' target='_blank'>Environmental flows</a>
An interview with Todd Goodman.
Todd, a landholder in the Murray Bridge area, breeds a variety of flatheaded gudgeon fish species in tanks in his garage, including the endangered Purple Spotted gudgeon. Todd’s broodstock facility includes twenty-five Southern Purple Spotted gudgeons, the last known population in the southern half of the Murray-Darling Basin – removed from a wetland during the 2007 drought. Similar facilities exist in Adelaide, and at a few Adelaide schools.
Todd talks about captive breeding programs; the types of stresses fish suffer; the lifecycle of fish kept at the facility; various methods to ensure fish survival in wild; theories behind their decline; water plant species.
Other fish species mentioned: Midgley's gudgeon.
Heather Goodall
Jodi Frawley
University of Technology, Sydney
2010-09-30
Murray-Darling Basin Authority
NSW Department of Primary Industries - NSW Fisheries
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Katarapko: Oral History of Tracy Bye
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85048775' target='_blank'>Fishes--Identification</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/665' target='_blank'>Family life</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/10464' target='_blank'>Camping</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/1480' target='_blank'>Swimming</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/2477' target='_blank'>Weeds</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/2650' target='_blank'>Fishing boats</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/1463' target='_blank'>Water sports</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/3312' target='_blank'>Environmental flows</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96006425' target='_blank'>Introduced fishes</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/6272' target='_blank'>Floods</a>
An interview in four parts with Tracy Bye.
Born in 1964, Tracy is Manager of the Loxton Information Bureau. She moved to Loxton when she was about 11, and spent a lot of time at Katarapko Creek. Tracy saw her interview as a way to honour her father Colin Shultz, his love of the river, and the way the river became integral to their life once they moved to Loxton. Tracy’s interview is short but rich in terms of showing how recreational fishing, family life and place making environments are intertwined.
Tracy talks about: camping, fishing, swimming, and skiing on the river; recreational fishing methods from boat and river bank; yabbying methods; changes in water quality (visibility and colour); changes in water vegetation (weeds and reeds); worm farming; observations of change sin water flow and current; snags and debris in the river; an occasion when carp became stuck in wetlands after a high water event; the differences between the river at Albury and Katarapko Creek; floods 1970s.
Heather Goodall
Jodi Frawley
University of Technology, Sydney
2010-10-29
Murray-Darling Basin Authority
NSW Department of Primary Industries - NSW Fisheries
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