How environmental flows can benefit native fish

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How environmental flows can benefit native fish Let it Flow Place your logo here How environmental flows can benefit native fish Paula D’Santos – OEH Clayton Sharpe – CPS Enviro Iain Ellis – DPI Fisheries BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA | 18 - 20 SEPTEMBER 2017 MANAGED BY

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Menindee Lakes storage construction Place your logo here Boom and Bust 1941 - 2015 No or Low Flow periods Menindee Lakes storage construction BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA | 18 - 20 SEPTEMBER 2017 MANAGED BY

Case Study: Lower Darling Environmental Flows 2016-17 Place your logo here Case Study: Lower Darling Environmental Flows 2016-17 Darling River South Australia / NSW border Lower Wentworth MANAGED BY

Downstream sections of Lower Darling River dry for more than 500 days 2014, 2015 & 2016 Downstream sections of Lower Darling River dry for more than 500 days

Murray cod spawning & recruitment Place your logo here Murray cod spawning & recruitment No flow BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA | 18 - 20 SEPTEMBER 2017 MANAGED BY

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Flows increased to provide food, habitat and dispersal for Murray cod larvae

ii) Golden perch – dispersal & recruitment flows Place your logo here ii) Golden perch – dispersal & recruitment flows

GP spawning Bourke Broken Hill Wilcannia Menindee Lakes Pooncarie recruitment Menindee Lakes Pooncarie Burtundy Wentworth

Golden perch dispersal, Murray cod survivorship Place your logo here Golden perch dispersal, Murray cod survivorship BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA | 18 - 20 SEPTEMBER 2017 MANAGED BY

Darling River origins for Golden Perch

MDBA Southern Connected Basin Project (Sharpe and Stuart 2017) Coordinated dispersal / attractant flows – connecting the Southern Basin MDBA Southern Connected Basin Project (Sharpe and Stuart 2017)

Conclusions management + science = positive outcomes Place your logo here management + science = positive outcomes right flows + right timing = native fish outcomes connection, protection and provision of flows and key nursery habitats

Acknowledgments CPS Enviro – Clayton Sharpe DPI Fisheries - Iain Ellis Place your logo here Acknowledgments CPS Enviro – Clayton Sharpe DPI Fisheries - Iain Ellis Ivor Sturt CEWO – Alana Wilkes, Irene Wegner, Sean Kelly Water NSW – Vince Kelly MDBA – Adam Sluggett, Adam McLean, John Waterworth Lower Darling landholders BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA | 18 - 20 SEPTEMBER 2017 MANAGED BY