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Native Fish Recovery Plan

The Plan

Native Fish Recovery Plan

The Native Fish Recovery Plan has a clear aim; to restore native fish populations and waterway health in the Central Murray system in northern Victoria.

Centred on the Gunbower Creek and lower Loddon River, the NFRP provides an opportunity to increase native fish populations, recover threatened species and improve natural values, all integrated with vibrant and productive communities, irrigation and agriculture.

STORY: RIVER HEALTH SNAPSHOT A BASELINE FOR FUTURE PLANS

The NFRP complements the intent of the Murray Darling Basin Plan - to provide more environmental water to rivers, wetlands and floodplains; and to improve and restore ecosystem health, while maintaining productive irrigation industries.

The philosophy of the NFRP differs from the more traditional approach of returning the ecosystem to as close to natural conditions as possible which is not fully achievable within an irrigation system.

It provides a novel way to achieve ecological outcomes within a highly regulated waterway system by embedding fish restoration flows into irrigation flows - that is using every drop twice, once to assist native fish and again to meet consumptive uses.
 

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