Fish Boundary Creek and Mundoo Channel fish assemblages below the barrages. Bimonthly University of Adelaide This monitoring program samples the fish community (i.e. small-bodied and large-bodied and larval life May and Nov SARDI ‘whole’ stages) and detects spawning and recruitment. This includes single-wing fyke nets, large mesh gill nets, seine each year Aquatic pulls and larval plankton tows. All fish collected from fyke, gill and seine nets are identified to species and Sciences counted. Lower Lakes TLM Condition Monitoring of Threatened Fish Species program target Murray hardyhead, Southern April and Nov University of pygmy perch and Yarra pygmy perch populations and recruitment using single-wing fyke nets, seine net hauls, each year Adelaide box traps and dab nets. Coorong TLM Condition Monitoring for small-mouthed hardyhead, black bream and greenback flounder Seasonal, SARDI populations using seine and fyke nets. depending on Aquatic species targeted Sciences Birds The University of Adelaide—TLM Coorong bird census and habitat monitoring. The Coorong and Murray Mouth Conducted University of is divided into 1 km sections (110 sections): annually in Adelaide January Murray Mouth estuary (18 sections) Coorong North Lagoon (44 sections) Coorong South Lagoon (48 sections). Between 10 to 20 sections are surveyed per day and between 7 and 16 days may be required to complete surveys. Waterbird counts conducted on foot, and by boat. Eastern and western shorelines counted (two observers each). Deeper waterbodies, inaccessible areas and islands counted from a boat (two observers). All waterbirds observed within each 1-km section are recorded. Reported by subsection (e.g. eastern shoreline, western shoreline, centre, island). Behavioural observations recorded (e.g. groupings, distributions), and habitat information relating to chironomid larvae, Ruppia spp. and distribution of small mouth hardyhead also collected.
Fish Boundary Creek and Mundoo Channel fish assemblages below the barrages. Bimonthly University of Adelaide This monitoring program samples the ‘whole’ fish community (i.e. small-bodied and large-bodied and larval life stages) and detects spawning and recruitment. This includes single-wing fyke nets, large mesh gill nets, seine pulls and larval plankton tows. All fish collected from fyke, gill and seine nets are identified to species and counted. May and Nov each year SARDI Aquatic Sciences Lower Lakes TLM Condition Monitoring of Threatened Fish Species program target Murray hardyhead, Southern pygmy perch and Yarra pygmy perch populations and recruitment using single-wing fyke nets, seine net hauls, box traps and dab nets. April and Nov each year University of Adelaide Coorong TLM Condition Monitoring for small-mouthed hardyhead, black bream and greenback flounder populations using seine and fyke nets. Seasonal, depending on species targeted SARDI Aquatic Sciences Birds The University of Adelaide—TLM Coorong bird census and habitat monitoring. The Coorong and Murray Mouth is divided into 1 km sections (110 sections): Murray Mouth estuary (18 sections) Coorong North Lagoon (44 sections) Coorong South Lagoon (48 sections). Between 10 to 20 sections are surveyed per day and between 7 and 16 days may be required to complete surveys. Waterbird counts conducted on foot, and by boat. Eastern and western shorelines counted (two observers each). Deeper waterbodies, inaccessible areas and islands counted from a boat (two observers). All waterbirds observed within each 1-km section are recorded. Reported by subsection (e.g. eastern shoreline, western shoreline, centre, island). Behavioural observations recorded (e.g. groupings, distributions), and habitat information relating to chironomid larvae, Ruppia spp. and distribution of small mouth hardyhead also collected. Conducted annually in January University of Adelaide