Draft national recovery plan for the barred galaxias Galaxias fuscus
State of Victoria Department of Sustainability and Environment, 2009
ISBN 978-1-74208-883-9
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Summary
The barred galaxias Galaxias fuscus is a small, scaleless, non-migratory freshwater fish endemic to a small upland area in central Victoria, on the Murray-Darling Basin side of the Great Dividing Range. It has suffered an extensive decline in range and abundance, and now occurs only in small, isolated, remnant populations in short sections of small headwater streams.
All remaining populations are at high continuing risk from predation by and competition from alien brown trout and rainbow trout, and from deleterious stochastic events such as wildfire and drought. This interplay between biotic threats and the increasing frequency and severity of physical threats from climate change, combined with the severely fragmented and isolated nature of remaining populations in fragile headwater catchments, create a very high extinction risk.
The barred galaxias is listed as Endangered under the Australian Government Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act).
This national recovery plan details the species’ distribution, ecology, threats to survival and recovery objectives and actions necessary to ensure long-term survival of the barred galaxias.
Open for public comment
You are invited to comment on this draft recovery plan in accordance with the provisions of section 275 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
The public comment period closes 4 January 2010.
If you wish to comment on a draft recovery plan, please send your comments, quoting the title of the plan, to:
Email: recoveryplans@environment.gov.au
Mail:
Director
Recovery, Planning and Implementation Section
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
GPO Box 787
Canberra ACT 2601
Fax: 02 6274 1921
Draft recovery plans are available in hard copy from the Department's Community Information Unit
- Email: ciu@environment.gov.au
- Freecall: 1800 803 772
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