BARRAMUNDI FINGERLINGS RELEASED INTO LAKE AWOONGA

Gladstone Area Water Board (GAWB) along with Jenny McGuire, president of the Boyne Tannum Hook Up,  and Justin Nye of Gladstone Fly and Sportfishing joined forces on Thursday to release the last of the season’s Barramundi fingerlings into Lake Awoonga. The fish, which average 22cm in length are distributed in various locations across the lake. 

GAWB Hatchery and Fishery Manager, Thomas Hayes said that as part of GAWB’s environmental obligations, they breed and release about 300,000 Barramundi fingerlings into Lake Awoonga each year. On Thursday 450 tagged fish were released into Lake Awoonga. “These fish are 150 days old and it is a great sense of satisfaction for us to put them into the lake and seeing everyone get out there and catching them. The brilliant thing about this is we create a fantastic fishery as a side product of meeting our environment obligations,” Mr Hayes continued.