Native Fish Habitat Rehabilitation and Management in the Murray-Darling Basin

Date: 10-11 February 2004

Venue: Albury , New South Wales , Australia

INTRODUCTION - Details, Contents, Statement and General Recommendations

FOREWORD - Scott Keyworth (includes welcome to country by Wiradjuri elder Cec Grant)

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS

• Rehabilitation of fish habitats in the Murray-Darling Basin - Where have we been and where are we going? - John D. Koehn
• The Native Fish Strategy and demonstration reaches  - Jim Barrett

STATE AND TERRITORY UPDATES

• Habitat protection and restoration in Victoria - a brief overview - P. Clunie, J. Koehn, P. Bennett and T. O'Brien
• Management of Freshwater habitats in Queensland - Maria Bavins
• Fish habitat rehabilitation and management in South Australia - Qifeng Ye
• Aquatic habitat protectionand restorationin NSW (Murray-Darling Basin) - a brief overview - Craig Copeland
• Management and rehabilitation of aquatic habitat in the Australian Capital Territory - Mark Lintermans

OTHER PAPERS PRESENTED

• Of sand slugs and fish restoration:  the Granite Creeks saga - N.R. Bond and P.S. Lake
• Restoring structural woody habitat in the River Murray - Simon J. Nicol, Jason A. Leischke, Jarod P.Lyon and Victor Hughes
• Legislative approach to protecting and enhancing aquatic habitats in New South Wales - Adam Vey
• Making wetlands more fish friendly - Anne Jensen
• Sand slugs and fish movement in the Murrumbidgee River: can you restore and maintain deepwater habitats in sediment-impacted large rivers? - Mark Lintermans
• Review of native fish habitat associations and development of guidelines for fish habitat management in the Murray-Darling Basin - Simon Treadwell

POSTER PRESENTATION

• River rehabilitation via redundant weir removal - Rebecca Richardson

APPENDIX 1 & 2 - (1) Other knowledge needs and questions (2) List of participants

. Native fish Strategy . Basin Fish Children's native fish page . Native fish information	. Ordering Fish section of publications ordering page
. Links to other fish organisations	. NFS Feedback