Pilbara redclaw
Submitted by Yewiefish85 on Wed, 2016-12-21 07:38
Hi guys I know that there are redclaw in Harding Dam and I have been told that you are not aloud to fish there or even get access to the water, is this still the case?
Cheers Yewie
crasny1
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I dont think you are
but you can fish in the pond at the Bottom of the dam. So if there is Redclaw in the main dam, no doubt there will be some in the spill pond.
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Terry
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Karajini
We were at Karajini National Park in July and talking to some fisheries type people who were assessing the gorges and water holes throughout Karajini looking for Red Claw. Hamersley Gorge has heaps of Red Claw in it and they were hoping that there werent any in the other gorges as well. Harding Dam was mentioned too as it is infested with them . Some people thinking they are doing the world a favour by introducing these critters to places outside their natural habitats !!!. We also saw Red claw down towards Tom Price in a small creek/river water way.
What are people thinking by doing this stuff ?......isnt there enough introduced , unwanted pests and animals without doing this ????
My bit of a rant over.
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Yewiefish85
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I heard about them at
I heard about them at karajini, I have also read that they are in lake kunnanurra and that you can use opera house traps to fish them, I don't want to translocate them just want to get a feed of them
big john
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Redclaw have destroyed the cherabin fishery in Lake Kununurra.
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Yewiefish85
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All the more reason to get
All the more reason to get out there and get stuck into them, take advantage of a bad situation I recon
AHarman
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DPaW survey for redclaw
DPaW undertook the survey for redclaw in Karijini and nearby systems.
Terry - do you know name of creek nr Tom Price you found them in?
I am all for catching them for consumption, but as you both state - relocation is a massive issue - often from live-baiting attempts. There are no native freshwater crayfish in the pilbara ! and redclaw lead to a quick imbalance !
petermac
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tom price area
i am betting they are alive and thriving in turtle creek and donkey pool
Adam Gallash
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Dam
Can't fish the dam or the overflow, tried last year and the DER guy that lives there worded us up.
Same with redclawing the back section off the Rio road, its no camping / no fishing, being a water reserve. Went up a while back and had a look, the other side of it, tis pretty speccy from up the top.
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Yewiefish85
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Cheers Adam, yeah, went down
Cheers Adam, yeah, went down the rio road early last year after a mate told me of a nice spot, returned a month or two later and it appeared a dozed with a ripper went through and tore up the tracks, bit of a pity we can't help reduce the population
that pic certainly looks speccy
johnathon
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I know all that country and
I know all that country and its full of redclaw. Water Corp put out motion sensor cameras regularly but we're the Harding dam rail access line hits the Millstream sign there even as far up as that.
if you could private msg on this site I could tell you more but nothing is say on a public forum.
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redclaw