After massive backlash from communities along the Central-Darling, the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) is holding further community consultations over their proposed ‘Fish Passage: Reconnecting the Northern Basin Project’ in July and August.
The proposed ‘Fish Passage: Reconnecting the Northern Basin Project’ would use Commonwealth funding to reconnect waterways, allowing native fish to migrate and flourish by installing rock-ramp fishways on sections of existing weir sites at Louth, Banarway, Calmundi and Tilpa.
It also involves a reduction in weir height to recreate 506 kilometres of water ‘highways’ for native fish in the Barwon-Darling River system…