date:Jul 12, 2012
his is where our research comes in.
We have been able to successfully spawn jungle perch in the past, but getting the tiny larvae to feed has been problematic.
This newly-funded work at the Bribie Island Research Centre will focus on nutrition of adult fish to improve egg and larval quality, tank rearing conditions and appropriate larval feeds to solve this problem.
The fingerlings produced will be stocked into suitable river habitats to re-establish jungle perch fisheries where they used to