In this edited book extract, Paul Humphries describes how a proposal to feed hungry miners on Victoria’s goldfields led to a Murray cod fishery – and the collapse of cod populations, the effects of ...
At up to 1.8 metres in length and weighing more than 50 kilograms, the Murray cod is the apex predator of Australia's inland waterways. An adult "pondi" (its Ngarrindjeri name) cruises the country's ...