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Fisheries Resources of the Bohle Rover Employment, Economic Development and Innovation and Innovation Development Economic Employment, Department of Department Fisheries Resources of the Bohle River Queensland C.P. Lunow and R.N. Garrett Northern Fisheries Centre Department of Primary Industries Cairns Lunow and Garrett, 2011 Note: This document includes previously unpublished information compiled in 1999 and some information here may be outdated. Care should be exercised in extrapolating information contained within this document to the present status of fisheries resources including fish habitats. Publication of this document is intended to provide public access to a base line study of the Bohle River for potential comparative work. The Queensland Department of Primary Industries referred to in this document has been renamed and now falls under the umbrella of the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation. Other related reports include: Helmke, et al. 2000. Fisheries resources of Trinity Inlet, Queensland. Queensland Department of Primary Industries Information Series, QI01093, Cairns. 94 pp. Correct citation of this report is: Lunow, C. P. and Garrett, R. N. 2011. Fisheries resources of the Bohle River, Queensland. Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation, Northern Fisheries Centre, Cairns, pp. © State of Queensland, Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation, 2011. The Queensland Government supports and encourages the dissemination and exchange of its information. The copyright in this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY) licence. Under this licence you are free, without having to seek permission from DEEDI, to use this publication in accordance with the licence terms. You must keep intact the copyright notice and attribute the State of Queensland, Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation as the source of the publication. For more information on this licence visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/deed.en Fisheries resources of the Bohle River Queensland 2 Lunow and Garrett, 2011 Contents Contents 3 Table of Acronyms 5 Acknowledgments 6 Summary 7 Introduction 10 Coastal stream description 11 Location and topography 11 Nature conservation values 12 Cultural values for indigenous fishers 13 Land use and tenure 13 Pollution impacts on the Bohle River system 15 Fisheries of the Bohle River 18 History 18 Fisheries management arrangements for the Bohle River 20 Protected areas of the Bohle River 22 Fishery independent surveys of the Bohle River 24 Methods and Techniques 24 Site Selection 24 Pilot Study 24 Fish surveys 26 Trailer counts 28 Crab surveys 29 Water quality surveys 29 Data analysis 29 Target species 30 Results and discussion 31 Research gillnetting surveys 31 Cast netting survey 36 Bohle River fish trap survey 38 Target species catches 44 Tagged mud crab program 63 Estuarine Water Quality 67 Freshwater fisheries resource surveys 72 Fishery dependent information on fishery resources 75 Introduction 75 Methods 76 Commercial harvest fishery 76 Commercial tour operator fishery 78 Recreational fishery 78 Indigenous fishery 79 Commercial harvest fishery 80 Recreational fishery 93 Trailer counts 100 Fisheries resources of the Bohle River Queensland 3 Lunow and Garrett, 2011 Conclusion 101 Implications for management 104 References 105 Appendices 110 Appendix 1 Wetland Sites of Significance with the Townsville – Thuringowa Sub Region (Source Townsville-Thuringowa Strategy Plan 1996a, 1996b) 110 Appendix 2 This article from the SUN newspaper dated 20 January 1999 is just one example of the ongoing water quality issue in the Bohle River. 112 Appe ndix 1 Size range, average size, number and CPUE of all species caught in cast net survey of the Bohle River. 112 Appendix 1 Size range, average size, number and CPUE of all species caught in cast net survey of the Bohle River. 113 Appendix 4 List of species captured in the Bohle River, North Queensland, using all sampling techniques during the fisheries independent research surveys. 115 Appendix 5 Mean size and size range of each species caught during the Bohle River surveys. 118 Appendix 6 Commercial catch species categories. 121 Fisheries resources of the Bohle River Queensland 4 Lunow and Garrett, 2011 Table of Acronyms ANZECC Australian and New Zealand Environment and conservation council CFISH Commercial Fisheries Information System. Database of commercial fishery and charter tour fishers landings recorded from daily logbooks managed by DEEDI. CPUE Catch per unit effort CW Carapace width DEEDI Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation DPA Dugong Protection Area DPI Department of Primary Industries, Queensland (now Fisheries Queensland, a service of Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation) EPA Environmental Protection Authority (now part of Department of Environment and Resource Management) FHA Fish Habitat Area FL Fork length of a fish GVP Gross Value of Production IUCN International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources QBFP Queensland Boating and Fisheries Patrol QCFO Queensland Commercial Fishermen Organisation (now Queensland Seafood Industry Association) QDoT Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads QFMA Queensland Fisheries Management Authority. The QFMA was disbanded in 2000 and its functions are now incorporated within the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation RFISH Recreational Fisheries Information System. Database of recreational fishers landings recorded from trip diaries managed by Fisheries Queensland, a service of DEEDI. TL Total length of a fish TTSP Townsville and Thuringowa Strategy Plan ZAC Zonal Advisory Committee Fisheries resources of the Bohle River Queensland 5 Lunow and Garrett, 2011 Acknowledgments We thank the then members of the Townsville Zonal Advisory Committee to the then Queensland Fisheries Management Authority for their assistance with selecting the sites for the project and their ongoing support. The guidance of the Northern Fisheries Centre steering committee (Dr. Robert Coles, Dr. Neil Gribble, Dr John Russell, Mr Clive Turnbull, Mr Geoff McPherson and Ms Angela Reid) was instrumental in developing this study. The committee also provided comment on survey methods and analysis of the data. This project would not have been possible without the participation of staff at the Northern Fisheries Centre and the Oonoonba District Office of Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation. We acknowledge the efforts of Christie Allison, Grahame Beal, Kelly Chaillon, Bernadine Carthew, Glen Chisholm, Sharon Cislowski, Brandt Foster, Bev Gibbs, Nik Nicoladis, Paul Leeson, Stirling Peverell, Gary Pomroy, the late Darren Rose, Vern Veitch and many other people who gave up their evenings to provide assistance or provided operational support. Special thanks are extended to John Russell for the use of electrofishing equipment. Mr Vern Veitch then of Sunfish Queensland and Mr Col Lound of Lound’s Seafood gave invaluable advice on site selection for the fish and crab surveys. Mr Col Lound also provided information on local fish prices, general gillnetting practices in the Bohle River and oversighted the interpretation of the commercial catch data. Mr Noel Benson also provided assistance with interpretation of commercial catch data. Ms Sue Helmke was instrumental in establishing the project and developing the methods with the steering committee. The project was made possible through Ms Helmke’s regular operational and administrative assistance throughout the life of the project. Special thanks go to Sharon Cislowski who provided volunteer assistance in the field, laboratory and office often giving up her weeknights and weekends to assist without complaint. The Queensland Fisheries Management Authority supplied information on the commercial and recreational fisheries. We would particularly like to thank Mr Jim Higgs for his patience in retrieving information from the database on our behalf and Lew Williams for assistance in interpretation and analysis of the commercial fisheries data. The overview of fisheries management arrangements during the surveys provided by Tom MacNamara of Queensland Boating and Fisheries Patrol is gratefully acknowledged. Thanks also goes to Bill Sawynok of AusTag and InfoFish Services for his assistance in retrieving data on recreational fish tagging and recaptures for the Bohle River. We thank Malcolm Dunning, Sue Helmke, Cindy-Lee Robertson, David Sully and Christina De Vries, (all then of Queensland Fisheries Service, for assistance provided with mapping associated with this project. Advice and direction in statistical procedures was sort and readily provided from Angela Reid throughout the project. This report has benefited from the comments and suggestions given by reviewers of earlier drafts of the documents. We thank the late Mr Peter Finglas, Dr John Russell and Mr Clive Turnbull of the Northern Fisheries Centre, Dr Jan Ley at the Australian Institute of Marine Science Mr Jim Higgs, Mr Col Lound and Mr Bill Sawynok for their advice. Fisheries resources of the Bohle River Queensland 6 Lunow and Garrett, 2011 Summary The fisheries resources of the Bohle River and its small catchment area adjacent Townsville, north Queensland, were investigated through available literature, scientific research surveys and analysis of commercial and recreational catch and effort data. Available literature and historic information on
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