Prospects for a restorative fishery enhancement of Lake Kununurra: A high-level tropical impoundment on the Ord River, Western Australia

Pacific Conservation Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 136-146

  Doupé, Robert G ^a   Morgan, David L ^a   Gill, Howard S ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Barramundi; Fish migration; Fishways; High level dams; Recreational fisheries; River restoration; Tropical fishery enhancement

Indexed keywords

FISHPASS STRUCTURE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; IMPOUNDMENT; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPORT FISHING; STOCK ENHANCEMENT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; LAKE KUNUNURRA; ORD RIVER; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; WORLD;

LATES CALCARIFER; PISCES;

EID: 22144496151     PISSN: 10382097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/pc050136     Document Type: Article

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