Friday, April 22, 2005

New Koonac Species

Well, sorry to not reply Ryan, thanks for you comment mate.I have been busy down south collecting crayfish if that is an excuse. This trip I fished a different area and seem to have at least one of a different koonac species. Pictures on the net identify it as cherax preissi, whilst the species I have already is by elimination cherax glaber. However, the distribution of the specimens conflicts with some old fisheries data. It looks like I may have to go offline for information ....Shocking tho that seems to me.
Tomorrow I will visit the Perth museum and solve the identity problem once and for all, then I will post some pics. I also got some interesting marron (from farms under license of course) These ones I am told are stock from different river systems and they appear to have different claws and some green tints in the joints. I also caught a pair of marron with extremely large tails in an extremely unlikely place whilst fishing for yabbies. Sadly I had to release them straight away because of our fishieries laws with marron here and I was so worried about having marron instead of yabbies that I didn't pause long enough to take a photo. Probably they had both just lost claws recently and so they looked tail heavy but I will be back in that spot come marron season as the shape of them and the place they are in intrigues me.