Barra in Argyle!

Whats the story wiith Barra stocking into lake argyle?

Has there been any progress or is the whole lake being preserved for the Barra Aquaculture industry, with floating nets, that employes so far only about 3 people?

Surely this stocking idea's past the dam environmental impact assessment stages and become a reality by now?

Whats wrong with a few enterprising individuals hand stripping a pregnant female and male eggs & milt into a aerated esky of water and putting the fertilised egges into the water?

This shoulda been over n done with years ago - why's it all taking so damn long?

Surely the Barra were in the Ord, BEFORE the dam was built?

It should be a no brainer they need to go back there!

I thought recfishwest got some sorta legislation passed that it was gainst the law to build a damn wall that stops the natural migration of native fish up a river?

Don't the Lake Argyle water authority people have to abide by these same laws?

Whatever is this world commin too - how can aquaculture people grow out Barra in floating nets in the Dam - but the taxpayers who's $ paid to build it cannot get to fish for a few big barra in our only inland sea???

Isn't this just another case where anglers are left with ni choice but to 'take the law into their own hands' in ofder to get a common sense outcome?

How do a couple fisheries researchers and aquaculturists excerise control over an inland sea to the detriment of the rest of the 20 million Australian taxpayers who paid to build the dam?

We sure have some sttopid regulationsin this country - meanwhile - all the tourists are headed to Awoonga dam & Peter Faust in Qld for big impoundement barra while we yet again let the tourism industry suffer.

Whats the latest info?

Anyone know?


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As far as I know they don't

Mon, 2006-08-07 15:23

As far as I know they don't farm barramundi at argyle any more. They had trouble with the fish they were producing, having poor quality flesh due to the algae in the water. By the time they found a solution their buyers had sourced barra from farms in Broome and Darwin.
Unfortunately they had around 20-40 tonne of barra that needed to be gotten rid of. The barramundi farmers wanted to release the barra into the lake for rec fishos but it was denied due to the fact that the barra fingerlings were farmed in SA and there was a possiblity the genes would clash with barra already established in the area.

...So the WA crayfisherman had 20 tonnes of barramundi to use for bait.

It was a bit dissapointing to here that story. As far as I'm aware, the only barra in arglye are the ones that escaped when they were farming. As for stocking, I got no idea why they don't do it...