Salmonid Fish Releases 2012

This Agnote provides information on the 2012 salmonid fish stockings in Victoria.

Victorian Fish Stocking Program

Fisheries Victoria's native and salmonid fish stocking program is designed to enhance recreational fishing opportunities for anglers. Annual stocking plans are developed utilising information provided at five regional angler consultation meetings (known as Vic Fish Stock). Fisheries Victoria recognises the importance of stakeholder participation in this process. The meetings use input from recreational fishing representatives, resource managers such as the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning DELWP (former) Department of Environment and Primary Industries, Catchment Management Authorities, Water Corporations and Fisheries Victoria staff to develop the current year's stocking plan.

The development of the annual stocking program takes into account the performance of the various fisheries, the existing stocking program, results of stock assessment, angler and creel surveys, prevailing environmental conditions, impacts of land and water management regimes and other issues that may impact on the fishery. Requests by stakeholders to vary current stocking programs are also considered.

In 2012, 636,607 salmonid fish were released into Victorian waters, including 325,019 rainbow trout, 300,588 brown trout and 11,000 chinook salmon.

All these fish were produced at the Snobs Creek facility and reflect the improvements made with RFL investment to upgrade facilities, improved stock health management and the hard work and expertise of staff.

Stocking Plans may be subject to 'last minute' variation due to natural factors i.e. flood, fire, low water level or quality, algal blooms or manmade impacts such as major works on storages.

2012 Salmonid Stockings - total numbers

	Brown Trout	Rainbow Trout	Chinook Salmon	Totals
Fry up to 15gs			11,000	11,000
Yearlings (20gs+)	299,375	244,205		543,580
Advanced Yearling (150gs+)		80,276		80,276
Ex Brood Stock (1kg+)	1,213	538		1.751
Totals:	300,588	325,019	11,000	636,607

2012 Salmonid Stockings

Water Stocked	Month 2012	Fish size (g)	Brown Trout	Rainbow Trout	Chinook Salmon
Aringa Reservoir (Port Fairy)	June June	25 32	500	1,000
Banimboola Lake (Dartmouth)	May May	30 27	3,000	5,000
Barkers Creek Reservoir (Harcourt)	Aug	27	5000
Beaufort Lake (Beaufort)	Aug Aug	27 33	1,000	1,000
Bellfield Reservoir (Halls Gap)	July	30		10,000
Blue Rock Lake (Willow Grove)	June June June June	25 39 24 30	7,000 3,000	3,000 4,000
Bolac Lake (Lake Bolac)	July	29		5,000
Bostock Reservoir (Ballan)	July July	28 30	2,500	2,500
Buffalo Lake (Dandongadale)	Aug	33	1,000
Bullarto Reservoir (Bullarto)	July July	20 29	500	500
Bullen Merri Lake (Camperdown)	Aug Aug Oct Oct Nov	87 84 62 84 20		4,820 3,300 5,800 1,080	11,000
Burrumbeet Lake (Burrumbeet)	July Aug	30 27	5,000	10,000
Cairn Curran Reservoir (Maldon)	June Aug	21 27	17.560 12,440
Cartcarrong Lake (Winslow)	June	25	1,000
Cosgrave Reservoir (Creswick)	July July	20 29	1,000	1,000
Dean Reservoir (Dean)	July July	20 29	500	500
Deep Lake (Derrinallum)	May May May May	27 30 26 29	500 500	500 500
Devilbend Reservoir (Moorooduc)	Oct Oct Oct	1,600 30 66	125 4,875	4,450
Eildon Lake (Eildon)	July Nov	21 227	20,000	1,375
Eildon Pondage Weir (Eildon)	Jan Mar July July Aug Aug Sept Sept Oct Oct Nov Dec Dec	1,000 2,000 1,700 20 1,700 1,860 1,860 1,600 1,800 1,600 1,600 1,600 1,600	75 87 50 10,000 50 100 100 50 50 50 50 151 120
Elingamite Lake (Cobden)	Aug Aug	30 31	2,000	1,000
Fyans Lake (Halls Gap)	May May	28 32	6,000	6,000
Gillear Lake (Allansford)	June June	25 32	1,000	1,000
Glenmaggie Lake (Glenmaggie)	July	34		2,000
Goldfields Reservoir (Maryborough)	July	33	500
Goulburn River (Eildon to Molesworth)	July Aug	130 31	5,380 4,620
Green Hill Lake (Ararat)	July July	31 29	2,000	2,000
Hamilton Lake (Hamilton)	Aug Aug	31 30	2,000	3,000
Hepburn Lagoon (Newlyn)	May May	25 29	5,000	5,000
Holland Creek (Tatong)	July	31	1,000
Hopkins River (Kent Ford Road Bridge to the Junction with Mount Emu Creek)	May	26	4,000
Hume Lake (Tallangatta)	May May Aug	26 26 33	30,000	20,000 10,000
Jil Jil Lake (Donald)	June	37		1,000
Konong Wootong Reservoir (Coleraine)	Aug Aug	31 30	2,000	1,000
Lauriston Reservoir (Lauriston)	May	24	7,500
Learmonth Lake (Learmonth)	Sept	34		5,000
Lilydale Lake (Lilydale)	Aug Aug Sept	27 1,400 1,800	900 50 50
Macalister River (Above Lake Glenmaggie to Junction with the Wellington River)	May	29		9,000
Macalister River (Downstream of Lake Glenmaggie)	June	25	2,000
Malmsbury Reservoir (Malmsbury)	July	27	4,000
Merri River (Grassmere to Wollaston)	May	25	2,000
Merri River (Below Weir to Dennington)	May	25	6,000
Moorabool Reservoir (Bolwarrah)	Aug	27	10,000
Moyne River (Rosebrook to Toolong North)	June	25	1,000
Mount Beauty Pondage (Mount Beauty)	Apr Apr Nov	25 228 328	1,000 1,000	500 1,000
Mount Emu Creek (Below Castle Carey Bridge to Panmure)	July	27	2,000
Mount Emu Creek (Skipton to Darlington)	July	27	1,100
Narracan Lake (Moe)	July July	30 34	7,000	3,000
Natimuk Lake (Natimuk)	Aug	31		10,000
Newlyn Reservoir (Newlyn)	July	20	4,000
Nursery Reservoir (Macedon)	July July	33 32	500	500
Purrumbete Lake (Camperdown)	Aug Aug Oct Oct Oct	86 82 61 56 84		4,880 4,550 11,800 6,420 2,350
Pykes Creek Reservoir (Ballan)	Aug	36	5,000
Rocklands Reservoir (Balmoral)	June June	25 39	2,500	2,500
Ryans Creek (Tatong)	July	31	500
St. Georges Lake (Creswick)	July July	20 29	1,000	1,000
Talbot Reservoir (Evansford)	July July	33 32	1,000	500
Teddington Bottom Reservoir (Stuart Mill)	July	32		2,000
Teddington Top Reservoir (Stuart Mill)	July	33	2,000
Tooliorook Lake (Lismore)	May May	27 30	3,000	4,000
Toolondo Reservoir (Toolondo)	May May June	27 30 39	20,000	6,080 3,920
Tullaroop Reservoir (Carisbrook)	June Aug	24 34	10,000	5,000
Upper Coliban Reservoir (Kyneton)	May May	25 32	10,000	5,000
Upper Sandy Creek Dam (Upper Sandy Creek)	Aug	33	1,000
Wartook Lake (Halls Gap)	July	33	10,000
Wendouree Lake (Ballarat)	July Aug	29 32	11,000	10,000
Wendouree Lake (Ballarat) Wendouree Lake (Ballarat)	July Aug Aug	30 40 50	2,000 2,000 2,000
West Barwon Dam (Forrest)	July	31		3,000
Wombat Reservoir (Daylesford)	July July	20 29	1,000	1,000
Wurdiboluc Reservoir (Winchelsea)	July July Aug	27 31 29	4,000	2,000 1,880
Totals:			300,588	219,205	11,000

Additional Rainbow trout Stocked

Additional rainbow trout were released into several impoundments to capitalise on the excellent growing conditions and angler returns from drought recovering lakes. It is anticipated that these fish will continue to provide excellent fishing for Victorian anglers in the next few seasons.

Water Stocked	Month 2012	Fish Size (gs)	Rainbow trout
Bostock Reservoir (Ballan)	Oct	45	2,000
Burrumbeet Lake (Burrumbeet)	Oct	50	4,000
Deep Lake (Derrinallum)	Oct	45	2,000
Devilbend Reservoir (Moorooduc)	Oct Oct Oct Oct Oct	200 207 207 204 223	2,100 870 338 2,058 510
Green Hill Lake (Ararat)	Oct	50	2,000
Learmonth Lake (Learmonth)	Oct	50	4,000
Tooliorook Lake (Lismore)	Oct	45	3,000
Tullaroop Reservoir (Carisbrook)	Oct	45	5,000
Upper Coliban Reservoir (Kyneton)	Oct	45	3,000
Totals:			30,876

Family Fishing Lakes

Fisheries Victoria undertakes an annual program of stocking on-grown or advanced yearling rainbow trout into small waters (normally less than 5 hectares surface area) in or adjacent to population centres, with the waters being accessible for juniors and anglers with limited mobility.

The majority of these stockings coincide with the second and third term school holidays when water temperatures are best suited to trout. Rainbow trout are stocked as they are normally bigger than the available brown trout at that time of year and are reputedly easier to catch by inexperienced anglers.

Some Family Fishing lakes are stocked outside of the school holiday period for special events.

Water Stocked	Month 2012	Fish size (g)	Rainbow Trout
Albert Park Lake (Albert Park)	July July* Sept Oct*	157 157 197 205	1,000 100 1,000 1,000
Alexandra Lake (Ararat)	June Sept	163 213	300 300
Allans Flat Dredge Hole (Allans Flat)	June Sept	169 175	850 350
Anderson Lake (Chiltern)	Apr Sept	227 213	300 300
Arboretum Dam (Euroa)	June Sept	157 205	400 400
Bannockburn Lagoon (Bannockburn)	June Sept	150 217	250 250
Berwick Springs Estate Lake (Berwick)	July Sept	157 213	500 500
Calembeen Lake (Creswick)	June Sept	170 217	200 200
Casey Fields Lake (Cranbourne)	June Sept	150 203	500 1,000
Cato Lake (Stawell)	June Sept	151 203	300 300
Caulfield Racecourse Lake (Caulfield)	Apr Sept	227 204	300 300
Cobden Lake (Cobden)	July Sept	165 204	200 200
Coleraine Lagoon (Coleraine)	June Sept	190 217	250 250
Cummins Reserve Lake (Yea)	June	168	200
Darlingsford Lake (Melton)	June Sept	150 217	500 500
Don Lake (Healesville)	July Sept	157 213	400 400
Dunkeld Arboretum (Dunkeld)	June Sept	190 217	200 200
Eildon Pondage Weir (Eildon)	Jan Mar Apr June July Aug Sept Sept Oct Oct Nov	1,300 1,100 1,500 280 2,400 2,500 205 2,400 2,100 2,500 2,700	75 138 49 2,000 50 50 2,000 50 50 25 51
Emerald Lake (Emerald)	July Sept	157 213	500 500
Esmond Lake (Ballarat)	June Sept	151 217	200 200
Ess Lagoon (Casterton)	June Sept	190 217	500 500
Felltimber Creek Wetlands (Wodonga) Felltimber Creek Wetlands (Wodonga)	May June Sept Sept	227 163 213 217	100 250 350 100
Foletti Caravan Park Lake (Donald)	June Aug	151 185	300 300
Forest Lake (Kangaroo Flat)	June Aug	168 184	200 200
Fosters Dam (Glenrowan)	June	163	200
Garfield Lake (Garfield)	June Sept	151 204	250 250
Glenlyon Dam (Glenlyon)	June Sept	170 217	200 200
Golf Course Dam (Longwood)	Sept	205	200
Great Western Racing Recreation Reserve Lake (Great Western)	Sept	203	200
Guthridge Lake (Sale)	June Sept Nov	151 204 298	750 500 250
Haddon Reservoir (Haddon)	June Sept	151 203	200 200
Hanging Rock Lake (Woodend)	June Sept	165 204	300 300
Heyfield Racecourse Lake (Heyfield)	June Sept	151 204	200 200
Hyland Lake (Churchill)	June Sept Nov	151 204 214	750 500 750
Jack Emmett Lagoon (Rupanyup)	Sept	217	300
Jack Roper Reserve Lake (Campbellfield)	June Sept Oct	150 217 204	300 300 300
Jubilee Lake (Daylesford)	June Sept	170 217	200 200
Jubilee Lake (Skipton)	Sept	217	250
Karkarook Lake (Moorabbin)	Apr June Sept Oct	227 150 203 213	1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000
Kennington Reservoir (Strathdale)	June Aug	168 184	500 500
Les Stone Park Lake (Wodonga)	June Sept	163 213	100 100
Lethbridge Lake (Lethbridge)	June Sept	150 217	250 250
Lilydale Lake (Lilydale)	Aug Sept	303 187	800 800
Marma Lake (Murtoa)	Sept	217	300
Marysville Lake (Marysville)	June Sept	285 205	450 450
Minyip Wetlands (Minyip)	Sept	217	300
Mooroopna Recreation Reserve Lake (Mooroopna)	June	168	100
Morwell Lake (Morwell)	June Sept	151 204	750 500
Navan Park Lake (Melton)	June Sept	150 217	300 300
Nhill Lake (Nhill)	Sept	217	300
Old Hamilton Reservoir (Hamilton)	June Sept	190 217	200 200
Pakenham Lake (Pakenham)	Nov	230	1,000
Petobe Lake (Warrnambool)	June	165	300
Police Paddock Dams (Horsham)	Sept	217	300
Quarry Street Reserve Lake (Trentham)	June	170	200
Rowville Lakes (Rowville)	July Sept	157 204	550 750
Roxburgh Park Lakes (Roxburgh Park)	June Sept	150 217	250 250
Sambell Lake (Beechworth)	June Sept	157 217	1,000 1,000
Seagull Lake (Geelong)	June Sept Oct	150 217 204	800 800 600
Simpson Recreation Reserve Lakes (Simpson)	June Sept	165 204	200 200
Spavin Lake (Sunbury)	June Sept	165 204	400 400
St. Arnaud Old Swimming Pool (St. Arnaud)	June	151	200
St. Augustines Waterhole (Geelong)	June Sept	150 217	500 500
Stanley Ditch Dam (Stanley)	June Sept	157 205	500 500
Tchum Lake (Birchip)	June Aug	151 186	1,000 1,000
Tea Tree Lake (Mortlake)	June Sept	165 204	200 200
Tom Thumb Lake (Eaglehawk)	June	168	200
Upper Sandy Creek Dam (Upper Sandy Creek)	June Sept	157 205	500 500
Valley Lake (Keilor)	Dec	256	100
Victoria Lake (Shepparton)	June Aug	168 184	500 500
Victoria Lakes (Ballarat)	June Sept	151 203	400 400
Wodonga Racecourse Lake (Wodonga)	June Sept Sept	163 213 217	1,000 700 300
Yalumba Drive Lake (Wodonga)	June Sept	163 213	100 100
Yarrambat Lake (Yarrambat)	May June Sept Oct	273 150 217 204	400 600 600 600
Totals:			62,738

Additional Rainbow trout Stocked into Family Fishing Lakes

Additional rainbow trout were released into several Family Fishing Lakes to capitalise on the excellent fishing conditions and angler returns from the lakes.

Water Stocked	Month 2012	Fish size (gs)	Rainbow trout
Albert Park Lake (Albert Park)	Oct	205	1,000
Casey Fields Lake (Cranbourne)	Oct	213	500
Eildon Pondage Weir (Eildon)	Aug Sept	196 185	9,928 272
Navan Park Lake (Melton)	Oct	202	500
Totals:			12,200

Weight

	Brown Trout (kg)	Rainbow Trout (kg)	Chinook salmon (kg)	Total kgs
Fingerlings (20gs+)	8,313	10,031	220	18,564
Advanced Yearlings (150gs+)		16,297		16,297
Ex Brood Stock (1Kg+)	1,870	853		2,723
Total:	10,183	27,181	220	37,584

Transport

Kilometres travelled	Total man days
69,206	189

Key

1	Fry	1-5g
2	Fingerlings	30-50g
3	Yearlings	50-100g
4	Advanced yearlings	150g+
5	Broodstock	1.5kg+

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