Browse Items (58 total)
- Tags: Fishes--Identification
Goulburn: Oral History of Rolf Weber
Rolf talks about: wetland vegetation; role of plants in providing protection for fish and their eggs; Myriophyllum…
Tags: Fish habitat improvement, Fisheries, Fishes--Identification, Goulburn, Plants--Identification, Restoration ecology, Scientific methods, Scientist, Wetlands
Position: 146 (80 views)
Goulburn: Oral History of Kevin Smith and Fern Hames
Tags: Droughts, Ecological sustainability, Ecotourism, Environmental flows, Fishes--Identification, Floods, Goulburn, Landholder, Riparian areas
Position: 36 (160 views)
Murray: Oral History of Tony Martin
Tony discusses bait and lure fishing; permanent set lines; and recalls the arrival of Redfin and Carp. He shares stories about the professional fisherman who used to fish the Murray; illegal fishing;…
Tags: Bait fishing, Environmental flows, Fishes--Identification, Floods, Lure fishing, Murray, Recreational fisher, Tournament fishing, Water levels, Water sports
Position: 153 (78 views)
Goulburn: Oral History of John Koehn, John Douglas, and Roy Patterson
John Koehn is a research officer for the Arthur Rylah Institute, Melbourne, and studies freshwater fish ecology. John Douglas works for Victorian Fisheries, and Roy Patterson is a…
Tags: Billabongs, Ecological sustainability, Environmental flows, Fish habitat improvement, Fishes--Identification, Fishing industry, Flood plains, Geomorphology, Goulburn, Indigenous peoples, Introduced species, Irrigation, Physical characteristics (Animals), Recreational fisher, Riparian areas, Scientist, Taungurung people, Wetlands
Position: 114 (93 views)
Murray: Oral History of J.O. Langtry
J.O. Langtry talks about his investigation into the ecology of the Murray-Darling System with the newly formed State Fisheries and Game Department of Victoria. His systematic examination of native…
Position: 85 (106 views)
Goulburn: Oral History of Raymond Donald and John McKenzie
Born in 1926, Raymond Donald was a technician at the Snobs Creek Hatchery for thirty-five years. During fieldwork trips, which could last for several weeks, not only did Raymond set…
Tags: Billabongs, Camping, Diet, Fieldwork, Fish hatcheries, Fisheries, Fishes--Breeding, Fishes--Diseases, Fishes--Identification, Fishes--Migration, Fishing nets, Floods, Goulburn, Physical characteristics (Animals), Scientific methods, Scientific observation, Scientist
Position: 180 (70 views)
Upper Darling: Oral History of Phillip Sullivan
Tags: Aboriginal art, Aboriginal customs, Aboriginal fish traps, Aboriginal kinship systems, Connection to country, Fishes--Identification, Floods, Gamilaraay / Gamilaroi / Kamilaroi language, Indigenous peoples, Muruwari / Murrawarri people, Ngiyambaa / Ngemba language, Paakantyi / Paakantji / Barkindji people, Siltation, Totems, Upper Darling, Water quality, Weirs, Wiradjuri people
Position: 16 (273 views)
Upper Darling: Oral History of Feli McHughes
Tags: Billabongs, Connection to country, Cultural flows, Fish stocking, Fishes--Identification, Indigenous peoples, Native Fish Strategy, Native plants, Ngiyambaa / Ngemba language, Riparian restoration, Upper Darling, Water quality
Position: 13 (293 views)
Paroo: Oral History of Gordon Warner
Gordon has spent most of his life in the Eulo district, and thirty years on a cattle property at Wandilla on the eastern side of the Paroo River. The district is sheep and cattle country; the Paroo…
Tags: Birds--Identification, Blackwater, Environmental flows, Fishes--Identification, Floods, Introduced species, Irrigation, Landholder, Livestock, Local history, Paroo, Physical characteristics (Animals), Plants--Identification, Siltation
Position: 90 (105 views)
Paroo: Oral History of Douglas MacGregor
Tags: Aboriginal culture, Bushfires, Depressions--1929--Australia, Droughts, Environmental flows, Fishes--Identification, Floods, Grazing, Introduced species, Landholder, Paroo, Recreational fisher, Siltation, Soldier settlement
Position: 123 (89 views)