Identification of human-made physical barriers to fish passage in the Wet Tropics region, Australia
Frederieke J. Kroon A C and Seonaid Phillips B
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A CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, PO Box 780, Atherton, Qld 4883, Australia.
B CSIRO Land and Water, PO Box 780, Atherton, Qld 4883, Australia.
C Corresponding author. Present address: Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB 3, Townsville, Qld 4810, Australia. Email: f.kroon@aims.gov.au
Marine and Freshwater Research 67(5) 677-681 https://doi.org/10.1071/MF14397
Submitted: 4 December 2014 Accepted: 31 March 2015 Published: 27 August 2015
Abstract
Human-made physical barriers to fish passage were identified in the Wet Tropics region, Far North Queensland, Australia, through a desktop GIS analysis of the stream and transport networks. A total of 3748 of such potential barriers, comprising bridges, culverts and causeways, were identified in a stream network of 18 363 km at a scale of 1 : 100 000. These records provide a first step for a complete barrier inventory and assessment for this region, which can be used to prioritise potential barriers for removal and remediation to improve native fish movement and fisheries production.
Additional keywords: bridges, causeways, connectivity, culverts, flow regime, migration.
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