160 RESCUE OPERATIONS ON THE MURRUMBIDGEE RIVER. 



them into water again, otherwise the mortality would be very heavy- Each haul was therefore roughly 

 picked over for about five minutes, and the remaining contents of the net, edible and inedible kinds 

 together, carried away quickly to permanent water. 



The approximate number of edible fishes rescued as above and transplanted in Burrinjuck 

 Reservoir, in May and June, 1918, was 30,000 small fry, also 1,685 mature fishes, viz., Murray Cod, 

 Golden, Silver and Macquarie Perch, River Blackfish and Catfish, and the approximate number 

 of fishes of the same species rescued and released in permanent waters was 46,000 immature and about 

 2,000 fish over 10 inches in length, also many hundreds of thousands of the miniature kinds described 

 above. 



