ANGFA National Life Membership awarded to Barry Crockford

“Barry has been an active contributor within and supporter of ANGFA for over 30 years ...... ANGFA’s experiences with the PNG would have been substantially less if not for Barry’s contribution to ANGFA and the hobby.”

Rodney Wubben Barry Crockford has been an active member of ANGFA ever since its inception in the early 1970s.

Barry worked in the aircraft industry in Papua New Guinea from the 1960s

Travelled to PNG from mid 1970s to 1980s to collect and bring back to Australia many new species of rainbowfish to share with ANGFA and its members.

Glossolepis maculosus – The Spotted Rainbow Barry discovered this in 1979 (Omsis River, PNG ) The vast majority of PNG rainbowfish present in Australia from 1970s - 1980s were brought into the country by Barry

The list of fish include:

• goldiei • wannamensis • M. lacustrus • G. maculosus • M. papuae • axelrodi • M. parkinsoni • C.campsi • M. sexlineata • C. fasciata --Lake Wanam • M. affinis Pagwi • Tateuredina • furcatus ocellicauda (Peacock Gudgeon) • P. conniae

Barry’s contributions to ANGFA and native fish however did not stop there

Barry established the ‘Rainbowfish Species group’ (RSG) in the early 1990s with a few other ANGFA members, to conserve many of the rainbowfish (and particularly from PNG) which had substantially declined in numbers within the hobby at that time.

One of Barry’s major contributions within the RSG over the 1990s was performing a major breeding program for the C. axelrodi.

Starting from only one small male identified in Melbourne and two mature females (of only a few females)

This was the total stock identified in Australia and from this micro- population Barry bred at least six generations over a 10 year period to bring them back to a strong healthy population.

He released back out to ANGFA and the hobby around 2000.

During this period of the 1970s up into the 1990s Barry provided many articles to ANGFA and had a number of his papers published in ‘ of Sahul’

Fishes of Sahul contributions

Crockford, B. 1984. Melanotaenia lacustris, Lake Kutubu Rainbow. Fishes of Sahul 1(4), 43- 46.

Crockford, B. 1985. Chilatherina campsi. Fishes of Sahul 3(2), 116-118.

Crockford, B. 1985. Glossolepis maculosus. Fishes of Sahul 3(1), 102-104.

Crockford, B. 1985. Glossolepis wanamensis. Fishes of Sahul 3(2), 113-116.

+ More...... Fishes of Sahul contributions

Crockford, B. 1984. Melanotaenia lacustris, Lake Kutubu Rainbow. Fishes of Sahul 1(4), 43- 46.

Crockford, B. 1985. Chilatherina campsi. Fishes of Sahul 3(2), 116-118.

Crockford, B. 1985. Glossolepis maculosus. Fishes of Sahul 3(1), 102-104.

Crockford, B. 1985. Glossolepis wanamensis. Fishes of Sahul 3(2), 113-116.

Fishes of Sahul contributions

Crockford, B. 1997. ballochii. Fishes of Sahul 11(2), 505-507.

Crockford, B. 1998. Melanotaenia goldei. Fishes of Sahul 12(3), 573-575.

Crockford, B. 1998. Pseudomugil paskai. Fishes of Sahul 12(2), 561-562.

Crockford, B. 1999. Lake Wanam revisited – a habitat under threat. Lake Wanam survey. Fishes of Sahul 13(3), 621-629.

Fishes of Sahul contributions

Crockford, B. 2001. Chilatherina axelrodi. Fishes of Sahul 15(4), 790-795.

Crockford, B. 2001. Lake Wanam fasciata Chilatherina fasciata wanamensis, a subspecies in trouble. Fishes of Sahul 15(3), 776-779.

Crockford, B. 1984. The genus Popondetta. Fishes of Sahul 2(2), 66- 68.

Crockford, B., Littlejohn, P. and Vincent, M. 1999. The Lake Wanam rainbowfish, Papua New Guinea field expedition. Fishes of Sahul 13(3), 629-638.