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FeralScan celebrates 10 years of pest monitoring
Launched on Australia Day, 2011, FeralScan™ marks its 10th year milestone with a major makeover and enhancements to its dashboard interface – check it out at www.feralscan.org.au.
FeralScan™ is a free resource that woolgrowers – plus other landholders, community groups and professional pest animal controllers – can use to record information about pest animal activity in their local area.
FeralScan™ is a free community pest management resource from the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions. It includes sections devoted to the key pest animals that affect the businesses of woolgrowers: wild dogs, foxes, rabbits, feral pigs and deer.
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Fishers will soon need to check their crab pots even more carefully, with fisheries announcing an increase in size limits for blue swimmer crabs caught recreationally.
NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) Fisheries has announced changes to recreational Blue Swimmer Crab size limits set to come into effect from April 30.
It was hoped an increase of only half a centimetre would increase crab numbers. Blue Swimmer crabs. Picture: John Appleyard
The NSW Department of Primary Industries deputy director General Fisheries Sean Sloan said: “The small increase in the size limit for blue swimmer crabs from 6.0cm to 6.5cm will assist total egg production by protecting spawning crabs and improve the productivity of the stock over time.”
Narrandera High School was one of 15 schools from across the region who participated in the Rotary Youth Driver Awareness (RYDA) Program held at Yanco.
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Vets urge producers to vaccinate following anthrax detection 10 February
NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) and Local Land Services (LLS) have urged producers to vaccinate their livestock following confirmation of the first case of anthrax to occur this year.
In late January 2021, anthrax was detected in an unvaccinated mob of ewes and lambs on a Central West NSW property with a previous history of anthrax.
The affected animals were ewes which had not been vaccinated for anthrax and biosecurity measures at the affected property, including stock movement restrictions and the vaccination of remaining livestock were immediately imposed.
NSW DPI senior veterinary officer, Graham Bailey said while there are no general public health risks or trade implications from the detection, it served as a timely reminder.
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New National Park won’t help koalas but will cost thousands of jobs, and $billions
A flawed report commissioned by an anti-forestry group grossly underestimates the cost of closing down the NSW North Coast’s hardwood timber industry and fails to take into account the scientific evidence that the modest, regenerative timber harvesting operations in the State Forest have no impact on koala prevalence, the Australian Forest Products Association said today.
AFPA CEO Mr Ross Hampton said previous independent economic modelling of the impact of the so-called Great Koala National Park on the NSW North Coast found it would lead to a $757 million-a-year hit to the NSW economy and cut almost 2000 jobs, devastating communities across the region where the timber industry is a major employer. This conservative estimate by respected economic modeller Ernst & Young would amount to billions of dollars and thousands more down-stream jobs over the 15 years than the report published to