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| Efforts on to rescue trapped lungfish |
Specialists from Queensland's Department of Primary Industries (DPI), Fisheries and Sunwater are this week rescuing lungfish trapped at the Ben Anderson Barrage fishway near Bundaberg, in the state's south-east.
The now declared vulnerable lungfish are too big to pass through the fishway's slots.
Researcher and activist Graeme Armstrong supports the DPI workers efforts, but says the Queensland Government has not allowed enough funds to develop the fishways so endemic species can utilise them.
He says the design of the proposed Paradise Dam fishway has the same restrictions as the one at Ben Anderson Barrage and will not be successfully used by lungfish.
"Everybody knows that the fishway is badly designed at the barrage. DPI fisheries blokes put in a lot of time and effort to fix this problem and they know what they're talking about and they're good at their jobs, but they don't hold the key to the moneybags and they don't hold political power," he said.
ABC NEWS
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