Table 1. Number of fish entrained within the experimental pump system.
Common name | Scientific name | Electrofishing/Seine | Entrained by pump | ||||||||||
0.1 m/s | 0.5 m/s | Grand total | |||||||||||
no mesh | 5 mm | 10 mm | 20 mm | total | no mesh | 5 mm | 10 mm | 20 mm | total | pump | |||
Goldfish | Carassius auratus | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Flyspecked hardyhead | Craterocephalus stercusmuscarum fulvus | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Common carp | Cyprinus carpio | 102 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Eastern gambusia | Gambusia holbrooki | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Carp gudgeon | Hypseleotris spp. | 200 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 15 | 38 | 38 | 11 | 36 | 123 | 138 |
Spangled perch | Leiopotherapon unicolor | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 |
Golden perch | Macquaria ambigua | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Murray cod | Maccullochella peelii peelii | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Murray-Darling rainbowfish | Melanotaenia fluviatilis | 92 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bony herring | Nematalosa erebi | 268 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Australian smelt | Retropinna semoni | 37 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 28 | 29 |
Freshwater catfish | Tandanus tandanus | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 837 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 18 | 45 | 41 | 27 | 47 | 160 | 178 |
Catches are pooled within each velocity and mesh combination. The electrofishing/seine column demonstrates the composition and relative abundance of fish captured at all the experimental site using electrofishing and seine netting.