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An excellent news video from Channel 7 highlighting some recent wetlands projects in the Mackay region.

Part 3 of this 3 part series discusses how we measure success by monitoring the fishladders and wetlands for fish species abundance and growth rates.

For more than 50 years coastal graziers have valued ponded pasture for its capacity to provide stock feed in the dryer months. Jason Bradford, a generational farmer, is working with a local NRM, Reef Catchments, and the fisheries ecologists at Catchment Solutions to return the balance between grazing and native species habitat.

For more than 50 years coastal graziers have valued ponded pasture for its capacity to provide stock feed in the dryer months. Jason Bradford, a generational farmer, is working with a local NRM, Reef Catchments, and the fisheries ecologists at Catchment Solutions to return the balance between grazing and native species habitat.

A very interesting documentary video (link below) detailing the implementation of fisheries improvement works on agricultural land which increase fisheries productivity within ponded pastures. Discusses the use of fish ladders, refuge pools and grazing best management practices.

Catchment Solutions has developed an innovative nursery slot design for their rock ramp fishways or fish ladders. The first of these has been constructed at the Macs Wetlands site just south of Mackay and will be monitored in the coming spawning season to measure its effectiveness.

Channel 7 Mackay recently ran a story featuring the Habitat Reef Modules designed monitored by Catchment Solutions and deployed by the Mackay Regional Council.

Pyramid Reef fish aggregating devices (FADs) designed by Catchment Solutions and deployed by Fisheries Queensland showed an increase in the number of fish and variety of species in recent monitoring.

Catchment Solutions recently joined the Society of Precision Agriculture (SPAA) organisation in Australia.

Do you own or manage Ponded Pastures or Coastal Wetlands? This field day might be of interest….

Follow Project Catalyst to promote your stories and watch the first of a new video series where we take you out in the paddock to our events, field days and presentations.

Since 2017 Catchment Solutions has been working with the Australian Federal Government in the Reef Trust program rehabilitating gullies and streambanks to halt erosion and the subsequent sediment making its way to the Great Barrier Reef.

Fish migration along the Fursden Creek at Mackay has increased by more than 800 per cent, thanks to $74,000 worth of innovative remediation works managed by the Department of Environment and Science (DES) and delivered by Catchment Solutions.

Fantastic to finally see the Habitat Reef modules being deployed at the base of 3 fishing platforms in the Pioneer River estuary in Mackay.

7 News Mackay recently ran this report on the pest fish establishing in Mackay.

Ross Neivandt presented an overview and conference paper that outlined the achievements and activities of Project Catalyst at the Australian Water Association’s Queensland state conference on the Sunshine Coast in November 2020.