NQ Dry Tropics is supporting cane farmers’ involvement in Project Catalyst. The Project is about helping progressive farmers who are developing practices that improve the quality of water leaving farms.
Project Catalyst was born in the Mackay Whitsundays area by natural resource management group Reef Catchments and has expanded into north Queensland with the support of NQ Dry Tropics.
Barriers to fish movement represent a key threat to fish populations in our region.
Many of Australia's native freshwater fishes need to move in order to breed and survive. Structures such as dams, weirs, causeways and road culverts can act like road blocks, preventing fishes from moving upstream. Even a small drop of 20cm over a causeway can stop fishes moving upstream.
The Suttor basin is a medium-sized basin, comprising just over 18,000 square kilometres.
The land is mostly used for grazing with a small proportion used for broad acre cereal cropping. Less than 1 per cent is used for conservation purposes.
The Bowen Broken Bogie Basin is relatively small, covering just under 12,000 square kilometres.
The land is mostly used for grazing, with about a quarter used for conservation and minimal use. Most of this lies in the Broken River subcatchment.
In this Basin, waterways vary between largely sandy, dry short-lived creek systems to permanently flowing clear-water rivers and creeks that originate in mountain rainforest.
NQ Dry Tropics is supporting cane farmers’ involvement in Project Catalyst. The Project is about helping progressive farmers who are developing practices that improve the quality of water leaving farms.
Barriers to fish movement represent a key threat to fish populations in our region.
The Suttor basin is a medium-sized basin, comprising just over 18,000 square kilometres.
