Hatchery production and stocking a success story in Australia

7 Hatchery production and stocking a success story in Australia 

Although habitat protection and rehabilitation are of major importance for the recovery of native fish and key ecosystem processes within the 

Captive breeding and stocking programmes enabled a rapid response to the imperiled status of freshwater fishes in Australia, and have played an important and continuing role in the recovery of native freshwater fishes since the 1970s and the restoration of some of the lost biodiversity in the MDRS and coastal drainages. 

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