Tumut's wetlands and 'fish hotels' viewed as vital to saving endangered fish

Cultural Burn cleans up Wetlands - Tumut and Adelong Times

Leigh Matheson (Murrumbidgee Land Care) with Riley Johns and Bimi Freeman (Wiradjuri cultural burn trainees), and Dean Freeman (cultural officer). PHOTOS: Josh Gidney. A CULTURAL Burn was the reason behind the big columns of smoke on Tumut’s outskirts on Friday. The burn was carried out over a large area in the Tumut Wetlands, and was conducted by the Wiradjuri Cultural Burning Team with Riverina Highlands RFS, Murrumbidgee Land Care and Local …

Tumut's wetlands and 'fish hotels' viewed as vital to saving endangered fish

If you live in the Tumut catchment and have a dam or wetland that looks a bit like this, it might be the perfect habitat for the endangered southern pygmy perch. Photo: Sean Graham. In the waterways surrounding the NSW Snowy Mountains town of Tumut, a dedicated team of conservationists is racing against time to save one of Australia’s most threatened native fish species. The southern pygmy perch (Nannoperca australis), once abundant in these wat…