Invasive species in freshwater ecosystems

Key research

• Environmental impacts of translocation for fishery enhancement
• Geographic spread and biology of introduced redclaw crayfish in the Kimberley
• Parasites of native and introduced freshwater fish in the south west of Western Australia

Funding bodies

Australia and Pacific Science Foundation

Department of Fisheries, Western Australia

Related publications

Chapman, A., Hobbs, R.P., Morgan, D.L. and Gill, H.S. 2006. Helminth parasitism of Galaxias maculates (Jenyns 1842) in southwestern Australia. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 15: 559-564.

Doupé, R.G. and Lymbery, A.J. 2000. Managing translocations of aquatic species. Aquaculture Research 31: 151-156.

Doupé, R.G., Morgan, D.L. and Gill, H.S. 2005. Prospects for restorative fishery enhancement of Lake Kununurra: a high-level tropical impoundment on the Ord River, Western Australia. Pacific Conservation Biology 11: 136-146.

Doupé, R.G., Morgan, D.L., Gill, H.S. and Rowland, A.J. 2004. Introduction of redclaw crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus (von Martens) to Lake Kununurra, Ord River, Western Australia: prospects for a ‘yabby’ in the Kimberley. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 87: 197-191.

Morgan, D.L. 2003. Distribution and biology of Galaxias truttaceus (Galaxiidae) in south-western Australia, including first evidence of parasitism of fishes in Western Australia by Ligula intestinalis (Cestoda). Environmental Biology of Fishes 66: 155-167.

Morgan, D.L., Gill, H.S., Maddern, M.G. and Beatty, S.J. 2004. Distribution and impacts of introduced freshwater fishes in Western Australia. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 38: 511-523.

Morgan, D.L., Rowland, A.J., Gill, H.S and Doupé, R.G. 2004. The implications of introducing a large piscivore (Lates calcarifer) into a regulated northern Australian river (Lake Kununurra, Western Australia). Lakes and Reservoirs: Research and Management 9: 181-193.