Juls

Great to see there is still some sawfish around.

Price drop, I can no longer offer personal delivery, Sorry.

2 years ago, they where somewhat legal to capture, well big enough grey area it was neither illegal or legal, status was "near threatened" 2 ranges up from endangered.
Basically ment there status was to be monitored which it has been.

12-18 months ago added to do not take list, legislative protection by state law.
Now listed as endangered, which is a secondary legislative protection by national law.

Both of which are administered by fisheries.

Why is it better than just the do not take list? Because most people understand that endangered means leave them alone, it also makes the fish more eligible for funding towards its recovery, and in turn things like funded breeding programs and habitat conservation, being endangered gives scientists like freshwater fish group the ability to work more closely with said species as it ranks them of much higher importance.

This being said I really think "Little Pygmy perch" is more likely to become extinct than salamanderfish assuming that our weather for the south west doesn't get stuck in a loop of continuous long dry winters and extended dry summers.

This past year broke the dry stretch we had been having, as for if it'll help salamanderfish? I'm uncertain as a few of the locations I know are dryer than normal for this time of year yet others are unusually wetter than normal., in addition a number of sites have in past few years either experience bushfires or prescribed burns.

I'm still seeing 1cm juveniles during winter at the usual locations which is always nice, but it's hard to say how many make it through the first summer, and if there pools dry up prematurely and life saving rain doesn't happen soon enough then a majority don't make it.

So I've just read it's official, salamanderfish and black stripe minnow are on the endangered species list.

While it's bad news that they need to be listed as endangered it's also good news as they are both extremely vulnerable to both humans and excessive dry weather spells.

I hope the higher than usual rainfall in the past 12 months gives these fish the little kick they need right now.

Unfortunately for those considering capturing this fish, now you need to break 2 laws to do it.

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The boys at Murdoch where able to spawn salamanderfish but had no success raising the juveniles. Although my understanding is they may not have really tried that hard.

Juls