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The Murray cod is the apex aquatic predator in the rivers of the Murray-Darling basin, [3] and will eat almost anything smaller than itself, including finned fishes such as smaller Murray cod, golden perch, silver perch, bony bream, eel-tailed catfish, western carp gudgeon, and Australian smelt and introduced fish such as carp, goldfish, and ...
Blackfish have a recruitment method similar to Murray cod, but with more specialisation to upland habitats. Blackfish spawn in spring and lay a very limited number of large, adhesive eggs (<1000) on sunken timber , or in the case of two-spined blackfish on submerged rocks. Similar to Murray cod, the male guards the eggs until they hatch.
Eastern freshwater cod are closely related to the Murray cod of the Murray-Darling River system, and are considered an icon of the Clarence River system. A long-lived, slow-growing species, eastern freshwater cod are threatened by poaching [i.e. illegal take], habitat degradation , catastrophic natural events such as bushfires , and inbreeding ...
The Snowy Mountains Scheme provides some security of water flows to the Murray–Darling Basin, providing approximately 2,100 gigalitres (7.4×10 10 cu ft) of water a year to the Basin for use in Australia's irrigated agriculture industry, which is worth about A$3 billion per annum, representing more than 40% of the gross value of the nation's ...
Golden perch and murray cod are also found in the river. Carnarvon Station, once a large cattle property at the rivers headwaters, was acquired by the Australian Bush Heritage Fund in 2001, with the 590 square kilometres (230 sq mi) property set aside for the protection of threatened species of birds and animals. [citation needed]
The famous Australian freshwater native fish Murray cod, Maccullochella peelii, was named after the Peel River by Major Mitchell, who sketched and scientifically described and named one of the numerous Murray cod his men caught from the river on his 1838 expedition. [citation needed]
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Cod (pl.: cod) is the common ... Murray cod Maccullochella peelii; ... Sprat form particularly high concentrations in the Bornholm Basin in the southern Baltic Sea. [47]