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Be on the lookout for Tilapia, an introduced pest fish that is widespread throughout coastal Queensland and parts of northern NSW. The Murray Darling Basin and further coastal areas of NSW are at threat of Tilapia invasion. Once established in a waterway, Tilapia are almost impossible to eradicate so preventing their spread and early detection of new incursions is critical.

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FISH is published quarterly in March, June, September and December. To obtain a copy of FISH mazagine by mail, please fill in your details on the Subscription page.

Download the FRDC FISH Magazine in PDF format.

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Crown roads to some of your favorite fishing locations may well be under threat.

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Deputy Premier Andrew Stoner has announced the launch of a new online service to make consultation over the closure and sale of Crown roads easier. Mr Stoner said this was a big step forward for stakeholders, with users being able to view all advertised road closure notices online for the first time.

“The online service makes all current road closure notices easily accessible,” Mr Stoner said.

“The roads notices will be searchable by date, locality and local government area. This search facility is a big step forward in customer service and has been developed by NSW Trade & Investment, Crown Lands. The information will remain online for the full 28 day submission period for each proposed road closure, making it easier for affected parties to access the information.

“I assure those who have lodged applications to close and purchase roads that their privacy will be protected.

“The maps contain information to clearly identify which roads are being offered for sale and closure, without revealing the identity of landholders or applicants.

“The online service was developed following feedback from recreational user groups as a way to help them more easily find the location of proposed road closures.”

The website is at www.lpma.nsw.gov.au/crown_lands/roads

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We should never be surprised when our fishing expectations are dashed because after all it's called "fishing" not "catching". What I am getting at here is that as the season on both lakes progressed it became increasingly patchy and whilst there were individual days with reasonable catches by in large the common thread on both lakes were very hard fishing.

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In Jindabyne and Eucumbene that trend continued and whereas the midge/damsel fishing season which is generally a highlight of our November and December fishing was fantastic in 2011 it was almost non existent leading up to Christmas 2012.

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It's been a fantastic start to the polaroiding season on Jindy with us regularly spotting big browns either cruising or just sitting doggo watching the world go by ... Evening fishing has also been very good in Jindabyne and I recommend you fish just a little up from the back of any of the drowned inlets ... loch style sessions on Lake Eucumbene last week and both resulted in double figure numbers for both my boat partner and myself. The catch was about 6:1 browns as opposed to bows and some of the browns were corkers.

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Well its been one of those seasons where it looked like it was going to be a better than average summer. In the local lakes Rainbows and Browns started off feeding fairly freely both around the edges and of course in the shallow bays with plenty of drowned vegetation producing plenty of midge and great fishing. In one December week I had 3 days where I boated 42, 51 and 36 rainbows all over 40cm. The rivers started strong also and plenty of both Rainbows and Browns took up residence in the normal hot spots.

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