Georges River Maquarie Perch

[Langa]

Hi all, I read a small article in Sunday's paper about a sighting of Maquarie Perch in the Georges River, the first since 1894, does anyone know anything of this? I also wonder how reliable a 'sighting' is, how can a fish be positively identified, was it caught, or just seen from the bank, and being such a rare fish would many people even know what it was? I would be interested to hear other peoples thoughts.

Cheers, Langa

[zook2001]

I wouldn’t necessarily discount it as the small perch are quite happy to hang around in ankle deep water; I’ve certainly seen them in some feeders of the Grose River,the waterboard has surveyed pretty extensively and its accepted their found in the Georges but not the Woronora. On the other hand I know there is an NPA chapter up that way and it’s a fact koala bears were once imported to try a stop a housing development up the top reaches of the Georges .

[Davemmm]

it’s a fact koala bears were once imported to try a stop a housing development up the top reaches of the Georges .

That beats the usual green and gold bell frog