The Editor, Peter Gibson, does this to me so often 🙂 publishes the Freshwater Fisher immediately after I publish Burley Line.

A very full edition. Top items:

• The annual trout fishing closure no longer applies in the Macquarie River or Lower Turon Rivers
• Advanced size Murray cod stocking
• Positive signs for native fish in the Murray-Darling Basin
• Opposition to proposed Yetholme hydro project on Macquarie watershed. A comprehensive letter of concern. (NSWCFA have previously prepared an issues paper for Affiliated Clubs on pumped hydro for local engagement on the issue)
• Carp functionally eradicated from Tasmania
• Gone Fishing Day grant applications open. Put 8 October 2023 in your calendar, as Gone Fishing Day is on again.
• 10th World Recreational Fishing Conference presentations
• Have your say on freshwater fish stocking
• River ecologist confident Murray cod ‘will bounce back’ amid fears of another fish kill
• Draft amendment to the Kosciuszko National Park Wild Horse Heritage Management Plan – submissions close 11 Sep
• 2023-24 Survey of Recreational Fishing – you might receive a phone call
• Fisheries collaboration to crack code on Macquarie perch
• Website for Australian bamboo (aka ‘cane’) rods looking at their history

available here