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Inaugural First Nations environmental educational event
The Northern Daily Leader
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11/14/2024
Around 80 high school students attended the inaugural First Nationals environmental educational event on the Peel River on Thursday, November 14.
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What everyone is really interested in and uses as a case is electrofishing basically
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instead of using a fishing line to catch the fish or nets, you actually put electricity
00:13
into the water and it stuns the fish, it doesn't kill them, it just puts enough in there so
00:16
that they freeze and then you can pick them up with the nets, then you can weigh and measure
00:20
them and you can let them go.
00:21
So fisheries and other fishing agencies have been using this for years and years.
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So I think the main thing here is to get the kids and the school involved in understanding
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what sort of science water in NSW uses, to look at different strategies we've had to
00:39
implement such as the snags and see exactly how that helps fish and the river recover.
00:45
Different animals and species inhabiting it and utilising the snags and you can see that
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from what we've collected today.
00:53
They're good to go, there's another type of prawn here, it's a bit of a striped prawn.
01:08
I thought they would electrocute the fish but no, it's the shocking of them, just a
01:14
bit stunned, make them easier to catch and I found that really interesting.
01:20
The device will measure water velocities and depth and give us an indication of our
01:31
area and average velocities and automatically compute that into a stream discharge for us
01:36
and that's helpful for our river operators to ensure that we're releasing enough water
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or if we need to reduce releases and things like that for people to make management decisions.
01:48
I've been finding today really interesting, seeing how all the different machines and
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how different fishing works.
02:01
I think my favourite part so far was seeing the electrofishing.
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So we've caught a couple of small fish and we've also caught things called, I don't know,
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yabbies, prawns, what do you call them, crawdads or something.
02:14
I think the snags will make a big difference and fisheries have shown that as soon as you
02:17
put habitat into places like this, fish come to it and will utilise it so I think it will
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definitely improve the fishing in this area.
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