One of the most stunning freshwater fish you’ll ever lay eyes on, Murray Cod are native to Australia, grow to extreme sizes and can be caught on a variety of lures that work on and below the surface 🐟 Murray Cod are excellent ambush predators that will use logs, rocks, overhanging branches and undercut banks to sit and hide behind, waiting for food to swim by. It’s at this point that their short but explosive attack will be experienced by an angler who can place a lure near any of these structu

Our hatchery crew are on the road today – stocking green, gold and silver! Murray cod from our Snobs Creek hatchery headed west of Melbourne, with 12,000 fingerlings released into Melton Reservoir and 61,000 for Pykes Creek Res. Meanwhile 21,000 yellas from Arcadia were stocked into the Campaspe River at Elmore and Rochester. Today complements the 25,000 Murray cod we delivered there last week, together contributing to its annual allocation of 100,000 yellas and 100,000 cod! This afternoon, we’l

Our Murray cod larvae are now in paradise. 🐟🤩 They’ve just been transferred to their outdoor ponds at Arcadia where they’ll feed on plankton to their hearts’ content…until they’re big enough to be stocked in rivers and lakes across Victoria. Nearly all of our plankton ponds at Arcadia are full of Murray cod larvae. It won’t be long now. #fishinglicencefeesatwork #arcadianativefishhatchery | Victorian Fisheries Authority

Dinner is served………for Murray cod larvae at our Arcadia native fish hatchery near Shepparton. These larvae are 11 days old and are fed 5 times a day in these aerated trays. On the menu today, and every day whilst inside the hatchery, are live artemia, a tiny crustacean that’s packed full of protein and Omega 3s. You might otherwise know artemia as sea monkeys, which we grow by the millions every week onsite at Arcadia. In fact, a big part of getting high survival rates of healthy Murray cod fing

FISH RESCUE: MACQUARIE RIVER Hundreds of Murray Cod and Yellowbelly destined to perish in worsening drought conditions have been rescued on the Macquarie River in a joint operation between NSW DPI Fisheries, local landholders, and volunteers of Inland Waterways OzFish. Following weeks of preparation assembling specialist equipment under the guidance of expert NSW DPI Fisheries staff, 15 volunteers from Dubbo’s Inland Waterways Ozfish headed out to rescue Murray Cod up to 106cm in length and arou