More mulloway stocked

For the second year running, the dedicated team at Department of Primary Industries’ Port Stephens Fisheries Institute marine hatchery have successfully reared tens of thousands of healthy mulloway fingerlings as part of the DPI Marine Stocking Program!  🐟🐟🐟

We have now completed the stocking of 30,000 juvenile mulloway into the Georges River in Sydney’s south, 10,200 fingerlings into the Hastings River, near Port Macquarie on the NSW North Coast, and in a program first, 19,000 fish into Lake Macquarie, north of Sydney.

This latest stocking activity builds on last year’s successful release of 80,000 juvenile mulloway into the Georges River and Botany Bay and 10,000 fingerlings into the Hastings River.

 

 

These baby mulloway measured up to 45mm on release and are expected to grow very quickly, reaching legal size of 70cm in about 3-4 years. Highly regarded as an iconic sportfish, mulloway is a key target in the Georges River, Lake Macquarie and the Hastings River Recreational Fishing Havens.

 

 

This recent stocking success builds on previous stocking events involving dusky flathead and yellowtail kingfish.

This mulloway marine stocking project is another fantastic example of your NSW fishing fees at work. Visit https://fal.cn/3gxrX for more details.

This is all part of ‘Fish for life – Building a healthy fishing future’.
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