Salmonid Fish Releases 2008

Note Number: FN0607
Published: May 2009
Updated:

Departmental Stocking Program

Fisheries Victoria 's native and salmonid fish stocking program is designed to enhance recreational fishing opportunities for anglers. Annual stocking plans are developed utilising information provided at regional stakeholder consultation meetings (CONS). Stakeholders involved are the Victorian Recreational Fishing peak body (VRFish), water and catchment management authorities, the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE), Fisheries Victoria and other relevant stakeholders. VRFish represents recreational anglers at these meetings.

The meetings consider the performance of existing stocking programs, results of stock assessment, angler and creel surveys, prevailing environmental conditions, impacts of land and water management regimes and other issues that may impact on the fishery. Requests by stakeholders to vary current stocking programs are also considered.

Stocking Plans may be subject to �last minute' variation due to natural factors i.e. flood, fire, low water level or quality, algal blooms or manmade impacts such as major works on storages.

Continuing dry conditions meant some scheduled releases were cancelled and others modified. Where possible, VRFish are consulted prior to a variation.

2008 Salmonid stockings

Water stocked	Month 2008	Fish size (gs)	Brown trout	Rainbow trout
Aringa Reservoir (Port Fairy)	July July	82 108	500	1,000
Banimboola Lake ( Dartmouth )	July Aug	66 70	2,000	5,000
Bellfield Reservoir (Halls Gap)	Sept	69		5,000
Berwick Springs Estate Lake	July	298		1,000
Blue Rock Lake ( Willow Grove )	July July Aug Aug Sept Sept Oct	86 87 70 50 82 83 74	2,100 4,100 3,000 800	2,000 2,000 3,000
Bullarto Reservoir	July July	64 67	500	500
Bullen Merri Lake (Camperdown)	June June July Aug Sept Sept Oct Oct Dec	55 66 128 74 57 78 88 102 990	5,000 5,000 5,000 4,400 600 300	3,050 5,000 1,950
Colbrook Reservoir (Ballan)	Oct	62	600
Cosgrave Reservoir (Creswick)	Oct Oct	62 129	1,000	1,000
Dean Reservoir	Oct Oct	62 129	500	500
Eildon Lake	Sept Sept Sept Oct Oct Oct Oct Oct Nov Nov Nov Nov Dec	2,300 2,400 3,000 1,000 88 96 95 84 96 167 108 148 104	125 227 4,040 940 1,670 4,040	290 302 14,300 5,000 6,130 3,000 2,595
Elingamite Lake (Cobden)	Oct Oct Oct	88 121 69	875 1,125	1,000
Fyans Lake (Halls Gap)	Dec Dec Dec	990 104 191	50 1,730	630
Gillear Lake (Allansford)	July July	82 108	1,000	1,000
Glenmaggie Lake (Heyfield)	Aug	50		2,000 §
Hamilton Lake	June June	61 48	2,000	3,000
Holland Creek (Tatong)	Aug	66	1,000
Hopkins River	July	78	2,000
Hume Lake (Wodonga)	June June June July July Aug Aug Sept Oct Oct Oct Oct Oct Dec	58 55 49 78 69 76 70 63 79 79 79 79 79 104	5,500 5,500 5,500 4,460 5,000 3,000 4,550 4,550 4,550 4,550 2,840 3,460	4,700 5,300
Konong Wootong Res (Coleraine)	Aug Aug	71 76	2,000	1,000
Lauriston Reservoir	July July	41 38	2,280# 2,280*
Macalister River (Licola)	Aug Sep	56 72		5,000* 2,000*
Macalister River (D/s Glenmaggie Lake )	Aug Sep	67 72	1,700* 300*
Merri River (Grassmere to Wollaston)	June	52	2,000
Merri River (Below the Weir Warrnambool)	June July Sep	65 94 78	500 3,845 1,655
Moyne River (Rosebrook)	July	78	2,000
Mt. Beauty Pondage	Mar July July	200 57 78	1,000	500 1,000
Mt. Emu Creek (Skipton to Panmure)	July Aug	70 70	2,000 1,100
Narracan Lake (Moe)	Aug Aug Aug	53 67 57	5,000* 2,000*	3,000*
Nursery Reservoir (Macedon)	June June	119 74	500	800
Purrumbete Lake (Camperdown)	June July July July Aug Aug Sept Sept Oct Oct Oct Oct Oct Dec	68 75 86 91 70 56 79 69 60 82 103 60 102	5,500 4,000 4,200 5,000 2,800 1,200 2,300	3,900 5,000 5,000 1,900 3,100 1,100
Rocklands Reservoir (Balmoral)	Sept Sept	78 57	2,500	2,500
Ryans Creek (Tatong)	Aug	66	500
St. Georges Lake (Creswick)	July July	64 67	1,000	1,000
Wartook Lake (Halls Gap)	July July Aug	54 42 72	5,000	2,500* 2,500 «
West Barwon Dam (Forrest)	Aug	133	3,000
Wombat Reservoir (Daylesford)	July July	64 67	1,000	1,000
Wurdiboluc Reservoir (Winchelsea)	Oct Oct Oct	60 64 54	3,000 3,000	2,000

1.2 Family Fishing Lakes & Premier Lakes

Fisheries Victoria undertakes an annual program of stocking on-grown or advanced yearling trout in small waters (normally less than 5 hectares surface area) in or adjacent to population centres, the waters being accessible for both junior and anglers with limited mobility.

School holiday periods are usually targeted for these releases, with the majority coinciding with the second and third term school holidays when water temperatures are best suited to trout. In most instances rainbow trout are stocked as they are normally bigger than the available brown trout at that time of year and are reputedly easier to catch by inexperienced anglers.

Also included are several stockings made outside of the school holiday period for special events.

Family Fishing and Premier Lakes

Water Stocked	Month 2008	Fish size (gs)	Rainbow trout	Brown trout
Alexandra Lake (Ararat)	June Sept	203 226	250 200
Allans Flat Dredge Hole	June Sept	305 227	250 250
Anderson Lake (Chiltern)	Sept Sept	227 850	280 20
Arboretum Dam (Euroa)	June Sept	305 227	300 300
Bannockburn Lagoon	June Sept	168 184	200 200
Calembeen Lake (Creswick)	June Sept	203 178	250 200
Casey Fields Lake (Cranbourne)	June Sept Oct Oct	306 246 256 850	400 400 380 20
Cato Lake (Stawell)	June Sept	203 226	300 300
Caulfield Racecourse Lake	June Sept	168 259	200 200
Cobden Lake	July Sept	298 218	150 100
Coleraine Lagoon	June Sept	305 178	250 250
Darlington Lake (Melton)	June Sept	168 184	250 250
Don Lake (Healesville)	June Sept	168 246	150 150
Dunkeld Arboretum	June Sept	305 178	200 200
Eildon Pondage Weir PREMIER LAKE	Jan Feb Feb Mar Mar Mar Mar Mar Apr May May May May June June June July July July July July July July July Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Sept Sept Sept Sept Oct Oct Oct Oct Oct Oct Oct Oct Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec	1,000 1,000 1,600 4,100 2,000 200 4,200 1,000 750 2,400 600 4,800 1,000 138 267 1,000 298 1,000 2,000 2,500 210 1,100 725 1,000 394 3,000 2,500 234 363 81 122 1,000 213 1,100 3,300 2,500 186 830 2,600 3,300 269 250 1,000 3,300 2,600 1,250 2,700 950 1,200 1,200 3,100	450 100 20 15 15 100 25 150 100 30 600 200 5,000 100 100 100 100 20 4,700 200 100 20 1,330 1,000 1,720 1,030 100 100 150 20 5,000 400 30 400 100 100 10 200 250 210	75 50 100 50 50 75 10 50 240 75
Emerald Lake	June Sept	168 226	750 750
Esmond Lake (Ballarat)	June Sept	203 184	300 200
Ess Lagoon (Casterton)	June Sept	305 178	500 500
Fosters Dam (Glenrowan)	June	305	200
Glenlyon Dam	June Sept	203 184	250 200
Golf Course Dam (Longwood)	Sept	227	200
Guyatt Lake ( Sale )	June	305	250
Haddon Reservoir (Haddon)	Sept	218	150
Hanging Rock Lake (Woodend)	Sept Oct Oct	218 243 850	300 280 20
Heyfield Racecourse Lake	June Sept	305 259	200 200
Hyland Lake (Churchill) PREMIER LAKE	Apr Apr Apr June June Sept Sept Oct Oct Oct	260 2,400 1,000 2,400 1,000 1,500 3,300 250 1,000 2,700	500 45 150 30 100 125 35 300 125 35
Jack Emmett Lagoon (Rupanyup)	Sept	226	300
Jack Roper Reserve (Campbellfield)	June Sept Oct Oct	293 226 243 850	250 250 230 20
Jubilee Lake (Daylesford) PREMIER LAKE	June June June Sept Oct Oct Oct Oct	300 2400 1,000 1500 243 3,300 1,000 3,300	250 30 100 100 450 20 100 30
Jubilee Lake (Skipton)	Sept	178	250
Karkarook Lake (Moorrabin)	June Sept	306 246	500 500
Kennington Reservoir (Strathfieldsaye) PREMIER LAKE	June June June Aug Aug Aug Aug Aug Sept Sept	305 2,400 1,000 394 3,000 1,000 394 3,000 1,100 3,500	300 30 100 400 40 125 100 30 100 20
Lethbridge Lake	June Sept	168 184	200 200
Lilydale Lake PREMIER LAKE	Apr June June June Sept Sept Sept Sept Sept Nov Nov	1,000 305 2,400 1,000 266 1,100 3,300 1,100 3,300 1,000 3,500	250 800 50 300 800 200 20 100 30 150 26
Marysville Dam	Feb June Sept	363 306 246	300 300 300
Morwell Lake	June July Sept	305 348 259	220 530 500
Navan Lake (Melton)	June Sept Oct Oct	168 184 243 850	250 250 280 20
Old Hamilton Reservoir ( Hamilton )	Sept	218	250
Pertobe Lake (Warrnambool)	June	153	200
Police Paddock Dam (Horsham)	Sept	226	300
Quarry Street Reserve Lake (Trentham)	June	153	250
Rabl Park Lake (Murtoa)	Sept	226	300
Rowville Lakes	June Sept	168 226	750 750
Roxburgh Park Lakes	June Sept	293 226	200 200
Sambell Lake (Beechworth)	June Sept	305 227	500 500
Seagull Lake ( Geelong ) Seagull Lake ( Geelong )	June Sept Oct Oct	168 184 258 830	800 800 480 20
Spavan lake (Sunbury)	Sept	184	150
St. Arnaud Old Swimming Pool	June	293	200
St. Augustines Waterhole ( Geelong )	June Sept	168 184	300 300
Tea Tree Lake (Mortlake)	June Sept	153 218	200 200
Tom Thumb Lake (Eaglehawk)	June	293	200
Victoria Lakes (Ballarat)	June Sept	203 184	250 400
Yarrambat Lake	June Sept Oct Oct	293 226 243 850	300 300 230 20

Total Numbers

	Brown Trout	Rainbow Trout	Total
Fry (5g)
Fingerlings (50g+)	183,490	122,325	305,815
Advanced Yearling (150g +)		55,210	55,210
Premier (1kg +)		4,637	4,637
Brood stock (2kg+)	887	966	1,853
Total	184,377	183,138	367,515

# Fry are not part of 2008 salmonid totals

Weight

	Brown Trout Kg	Rainbow Trout Kg	Total Kg
Fry (5g)
Fingerlings (50g+)	14,563	8,492	23,055
Advanced Yearling (150g +)		12,715	12,715
Premier (1kg +)		4,637	4,537
Brood stock (2kg+)	2,480	3,119	5,599
Total	17,043	28,963	46,006

Transport

Kms travelled	Total Man Days
67,735	192

Notes

	Premier Family Fishing Waters
*	Fin Clip for 2008 is Left Ventral ( LV )
#	Fin Clip LV/AD Triploid Brown Trout
«	Tasmanian Rainbow Trout Fin Clip LV/AD
§	Snobs Creek Rainbow Trout Fin Clip LV/AD

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Acknowledgements

This Agnote was developed by Taylor Hunt, Fisheries Victoria � Fisheries Management. May 2009