Fisheries Management in Australia

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

Put me down for one!
Obviously I have no real interest in the subject, but I am sure Mr Aliantha has a fine mind and will deal competantly with the subject.

The only thing I remember about Australia/ water is watching a programme about birds once. I can't even remember clearly but I think it was pelicans. It was set in a lake that was so large the narrator kept calling it "a vast inland sea". At the end, some of the birds had their chicks too late, and the fish ran out (some sort of breeding cycle synchronised between fish & birds). The parents stayed as long as they could and were therefore too weak to migrate away. Cut to shot of dying birds, flapping on the shoreline. Ugly, ugly birds - I cried buckets.

Anyway, as you were.

The lake was probably Lake Eyre, a huge salt lake in the north of South Australia that is normally dry. Occasionally, heavy rains in South-western Queensland will flow through inland rivers and fill or partially fill the lake. Huge numbers of birds will promptly arrive (how do they know?) and fish will be there (damned if I know how) and the whole place is full of life ... until the water dries up ...

FWIW I thought tw's comment was mildly amusing. I make drought jokes when I can, not much else we can do about it.

"Out here, the drought got so bad we had to close three lanes of the swimming pool..."