Barramundi trends
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2018 4:30 pm
Further to discussion in the poll about the lack of 120cm+ barramundi out of Shady Camp (but there's quite a few 90cm and metre fish), here's a graphic showing barramundi catch trends in recent years, from the federal fish website and the 2014 NT Fisheries report. It is Australian and NT barra catch.
Keep in mind they go up to 2015 and recruitment is now trending up on the back of two recent Wets.
I've also put Darwin annual rainfall since 1980 as a rough rain guide.
Point Stuart rain is more applicable to Shady but less complete, here ... http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weat ... num=014263
Interesting that the 1980s don't look anything special re Wets, keeping in mind 120cm fish will be 10+ years old, and there were heaps of 120cm to 130cm fish out of Shady in the late 1990s.
Maybe the Wets were special locally?
Keen to hear thoughts.
Note the Gulf of Carpentaria catch trend, way down, has been same with mud crabs (not shown).
Keep in mind they go up to 2015 and recruitment is now trending up on the back of two recent Wets.
I've also put Darwin annual rainfall since 1980 as a rough rain guide.
Point Stuart rain is more applicable to Shady but less complete, here ... http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weat ... num=014263
Interesting that the 1980s don't look anything special re Wets, keeping in mind 120cm fish will be 10+ years old, and there were heaps of 120cm to 130cm fish out of Shady in the late 1990s.
Maybe the Wets were special locally?
Keen to hear thoughts.
Note the Gulf of Carpentaria catch trend, way down, has been same with mud crabs (not shown).