Associate Professor Mark Lintermans ‘Stairway to heaven or highway to hell: the road for threatened freshwater fish recovery in Australia’

A major focus of the talk will be the Murrumbidgee and Cotter Catchments and the suite of threatened fish species that live there, including Macquarie Perch, Trout Cod, Two-spined Blackfish, and Murray River Crayfish.

Mark Lintermans is an Associate Professor in Freshwater Ecology, and a Principal Research Fellow within the Institute for Applied Ecology at the University of Canberra.  He leads a small team of fisheries ecologists actively working on threatened freshwater fish conservation, environmental flows, and the assessment of industry impacts.  A major focus is the Murrumbidgee and Cotter Catchments, including during construction of the enlarged Cotter Dam, and the suite of threatened fish species that live there, including Macquarie Perch, Trout Cod, Two-spined Blackfish, and Murray River Crayfish