QUEENSLAND’S Tarong Power Station is assisting with the stocking of native fish in the state’s Bjelke-Petersen Dam.
Tarong Power Station Site Manager Dennis Franklin said $9000 would be provided to help finance the release of fingerlings into the dam over three years, The Chronicle reported.
The Bjelke-Petersen Dam Fish Management Committee late last month released 75,000 golden perch (yellowbelly) and 60,000 Australian bass fingerlings into the dam as part of its 2012 restocking program.
“Tarong Power Station is pleased to be able to assist in the great work done by the Bjelke-Petersen Dam Fish Management Committee,” Franklin said.
“Anglers at Bjelke-Petersen Dam contribute more than $1 million each year to the South Burnett region,” he said.
“A very large number of Tarong Power Station employees are fishing and boating mad so it is great to help the dam management committee maintain this excellent recreational area.”
Les Kowitz, the secretary of the Bjelke-Petersen Dam Fish Management Committee, said around 715,000 fingerlings – including Australian bass, golden perch and silver perch – had been released into the dam in the past two years.
“We lost a lot of mature fish when four metres of water flowed over the dam wall last summer, so it is great to be able to build up stocks again,” he said.
Bjelke-Petersen Dam is now at full capacity.
