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The Goulburn River rushes westward down from the steep hills and mountains of the Great Dividing Range toward Seymour. The river then turns northward and meanders through hills and plains until the river meets the Murray upstream of Echuca.

These are the traditional lands of the Taungurung, Bangerang and Yorta Yorta peoples. However, the Goulburn River today is not the river the Taungurung, Bangerang and Yorta Yorta once knew and fished.

Water is now stored in Lake Eildon and controlled by Goulburn Weir at Nagambie. Flows peak in summer to meet irrigation needs and drops off in winter/spring. These changes mean there are a lot less fish than there were. Before the turn of the twentieth century, there are many stories of catching Macquarie perch, Murray cod, trout cod, blackfish and yellowbelly. There were no carp, no redfin and no trout. Now, there are very few Macquarie perch and no trout cod.

(Source: Frawley, J., Nichols, S., Goodall, H. and Baker, E. (2011). Goulburn: Talking fish, making connections with the rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin. Murray-Darling Basin Authority, Canberra.)]]> Map image attribution: Murray-Darling Basin Authority, Talking Fish Project see details...]]> http://geonode.research.uts.edu.au/layers/geonode%3Afrawley2012page102]]> View or download from publisher...]]> Riparian areas]]> CC BY-NC]]> Local history]]> Family histories]]> Fishing--Australia]]>
Photographs provided by Ken Gilmore at the time of his oral history interview with the Talking Fish research team.]]>