- FeralFishScan is a free resource for landholders, community groups, recreational fishers, and biosecurity
organisations.
- Map pest fish activity, document problems you think they cause, and record control activities.
- Keep your local community and biosecurity authorities informed about pest fish activity.
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Work together to identify priority areas for coordinated control.
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- Record pest fish activity (such as sightings of Carp, Tilapia, Goldfish, Mosquito fish, oriental weatherloach or red-fin perch)
- Photos from pest fish captures
- Control activities (including community fishing programs)
Use this information to work with your community to coordinate pest fish control
together.
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Benefits of using FeralFishScan
- Develop a local pest fish map
- Notify your local community or landholder group about pest fish in your local area.
- Alert your local biosecurity groups about pest fish impacts, such as competition with native fish
Instructions
FeralFishScan has a range of step-by-step instructions to help get you started using the resource:
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Learn about how recreational fishing groups, farmers, landholder groups, pest control professionals and biosecurity organisations are using and benefiting from FeralScan.
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Pest fish are best controlled in collaboration with local working groups, fisheries organisations, or biosecurity authorities. Resources are available to help you identify and control pest fish.
Record Feral Fish Activity