Dunyak Moira - Rescued root balls breathing new life into fishing ponds
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Dunyak Moira - Rescued root balls breathing new life into fishing ponds
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In the water behind me, in the Dunyak Moira fishing ponds,
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we’ve got about 65 fish, 25 of those are advanced
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Murray Cod and the remainder are Yellowbellies, also advanced fish.
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It’s been built on what was a water treatment plant
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20 years ago, but not required,
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and two ponds. They were empty. We’ve revegetated and come up with basically an ecosystem
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where we now housing 65 advanced fish and I don’t know how many thousand fingerlings.
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One of the core aspects is to create a habitat for fish
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and Emergency Recovery Victoria, following some storm events around Healesville,
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had some surplus root balls from some large trees and I believe back in about February 2021
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six truckloads of root balls were delivered and we’ve really seen
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the benefits once we filled the pond with water.
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We have not lost one one big fish and they’re breeding.
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The health and wellbeing benefits is massive, particularly with coming out of Covid,
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and also getting the the younger people out in the natural environment
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as well to really soak up the the fresh air and and you know
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explore the natural environment within the animals that live here.
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It’s just going to open up this whole area and the local community that they’ve got somewhere
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to go that’s not a dangerous channel bank but somewhere safe to go and fish and hopefully
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enjoy the environment that we’re creating and will continue to create itself around this lake.
Updated 18 January 2024
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