âSuper quickâ: Migratory fish to get some help to scale dam walls
âSuper quickâ: Migratory fish to get some help to scale dam walls
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Fish may occasionally fly but they tend not to jump and few of them make good climbers.
And thatâs a problem if youâre a native Australian fish species evolved to ply the waterways of the Murray-Darling Basin and have to confront the 10,000 or more man-made obstructions from weirs to giant dam walls.
The Murray cod is one Australian species, along with silver perch and Australian bass, that evolved to migrate long distances in the countryâs waterways - a life plan that has been made much more difficult by dams and other obstructions.