Magnitude, frequency and duration of instream flows to stimulate and facilitate catadromous fish migrations: Australian bass (macquaria novemaculeata perciformes, percichthyidae)

River Research and Applications

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 512-527

  Reinfelds, I V ^a   Walsh, C T ^b,c   Van der Meulen, D E ^d   Growns, I O ^e   Gray, C A ^d  

^a NSW Office of Water   (Australia)

^b Batemans Bay Fisheries Centre   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^d Department of Primary Industries Cronulla Fisheries Research Centre ^*  (Australia)

^e NSW Office of Environment and Heritage   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acoustic telemetry; Environmental flow; Flow pulse; Macquaria novemaculeata; Migration

Indexed keywords

BASEFLOW; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; INSTREAM FLOW; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; PERCIFORM; RETURN MIGRATION; RIVER FLOW; SPAWNING; TELEMETRY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SHOALHAVEN RIVER; TALLOWA DAM;

MACQUARIA NOVEMACULEATA; PERCICHTHYIDAE; PERCIFORMES; PISCES;

EID: 84876497924     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: 15351467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.1611     Document Type: Article

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