FOR the third year running, the team at NSW DPI’s Port Stephens Fisheries Institute marine hatchery have successfully reared tens of thousands of healthy mulloway fingerlings as part of the DPI Marine Stocking Program.
Over Autumn, DPI stocked 66,800 juvenile mulloway into the Georges River in Sydney’s south, 35,600 fingerlings into the Hastings River, near Port Macquarie on the NSW North Coast and 22,600 fish into Lake Macquarie, north of Sydney. Bringing the grand total of mulloway fingerlings stocked this Autumn to 125,000 and eclipsing the previous mulloway stocking record of 90,000 under the Marine Stocking Program set in 2021.
This latest stocking activity also builds on last year’s successful release of 30,000 juvenile mulloway into the Georges River, 18,700 fingerlings into Lake Macquarie and 10,200 fingerlings into the Hastings River.
These baby mulloway measured up to 60mm on release and are expected to grow very quickly, reaching legal size of 70cm in about 3-4 years. Highly regarded as an iconic sportfish, mulloway is a key target in the Georges River, Lake Macquarie and the Hastings River Recreational Fishing Havens.
This recent stocking success builds on previous stocking events involving dusky flathead and mulloway and also follows on from the exciting stocking 400 advanced size mulloway released into the Georges River in February.
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