Snags have been placed in Nine Mile Creek to provide safe harbour for fish as they make their way along the creek.
Habitat for native fish has been improved in the Nine Mile Creek after more than 80 large snags were placed in the creek at Wunghnu late last month.
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The logs — consisting of large root balls, single barrel and multi-stem snags — were positioned into a reach of the creek which doesn’t have any snags.
Corey Wilson from the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority, which coordinated the project, said the snags would provide safe harbour for fish as they made their way along the creek.
“The creek must have been cleared of snags in the past. We were keen to replace what would have been there originally,” Mr Wilson said.
He said the project had been a collaboration between the Murray Darling Healthy Rivers Program, Parks Victoria, the Nathalia and Numurkah angling clubs, the Goulburn Broken CMA and Yorta Yorta Nation.
“We engaged work crews from Yorta Yorta Nation to help with the thinning works,” Mr Wilson said.
“The work crews then used that timber to build fish hotels, which is another positive environmental outcome from the project.”
The snags were donated to the project from the large, nearby Wunghnu Solar Farm.
“That timber could have been sold for firewood but instead it has been set aside for environmental projects such as this,” Mr Wilson said.
Logs wait to become snags in Nine Mile Creek at Wunghnu.
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