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Lake Glenlyon golden perch update
THE following dashboard pro- vides a sum- mary of golden perch data from Lake Glen- lyon covering the past 10 years, from 2011- 2020.
2019 was 376mm and ranged from a low of 313mm in 2017 to a high of 440mm in 2012.
period map grids M14 with 237 fish, M18 with 56, L17 with 41 and L14 with 39.
Of the 19 fish re- captured over the past 10 years, none have been recaptured outside the impound- ment.
were by fishers from postcodes: 2478 with two fishers from the Ballina area in NSW and 4207 with two fishers from the Been- leigh area.
There have been eight trophy length fish of over 500mm caught over the 10 years, with the largest at 610mm in 2012.
There have been in- sufficient recaptures to calculate a growth rate.
Most recaptures
As at November 18, the Glenlyon Dam lev- el was at 14 percent.
There were 1.1 million fingerlings stocked from 2011- 2018, with 0 in 2017 and 2018.
Tagged fish were dominated by legal sized fish ranging from 47.5 percent in 2017 to 98.2 percent in 2013.
The average catch rate over the 10 years was 2.9 fish per fisher per day, and reached a low of 1.3 in 2015 and a high of 5.5 in 2016, with insufficient data for 2020.
There have been 622 fish tagged for 19 re- captures, with a low recapture rate of 3.1 percent over the past 10 years.
The average length of golden perch in
During this period, fish have been tagged in length of growth
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