MURRAY IN AUSTRALIA COD

Dec 13, 2009 Lorenzo Martinez Bernal BIG FISH 2

MURRAY IN AUSTRALIA COD

Scientific name

Maccullochella peelii peelii

Size

It will reach at least 60 cm y 3 a 4 kg in small streams.

Usually they reach 90 a 100 cm y 15 a 20 Kg, If fishermen are not taken. Occasionally he recorded 120 a 130 cm y 35 a 45 kg.

The biggest cod Murray was never officially registered 183 cm, 113 kg (6 pies, 250 pounds), although there have been unsubstantiated allegations for larger fish.

Unfortunately, excess pressure from recreational fishing has led to a serious lack of large fish, mature breeding in natural populations with an almost total absence of year classes above 50 cm (the minimum legal size of fishing) throughout its range.

Description

Big, extended, bodied fish deep with small eyes and a short snout, rounded, depressed, with a clearly concave profile. Protrusion of the lower jaw or jaws equal in some of them (usually smaller). dorsal spinous low and large,soft rounded ridges ,caudal (cola) and the anal fin.

Light green to dark green on the back and sides that is covered with heavy mottlings in dark green or black undersides. They are creamy white. Soft dorsal fins, caudal and anal gray to black color, with white borders on strike. Murray cod coloring is dramatic and, often surprisingly vivid and beautiful of small to medium sized samples of clear water. coloration of Murray cod in very murky water, Nevertheless, It tends to be washed. Some very large Murray cod has a green mottled gray.

Murray cod biggest increase in size, in weigh, of length – large specimens are wide at the head and shoulders and strongly built.

Habitat

Murray cod habitat varies greatly, from very small clear mountain streams, rocky and on the high slopes west of the Great Dividing Range Large, meandros, and often in rivers in the alluvial lowlands of the Murray-Darling Basin.

It should be noted that Murray cod are not only the inhabitants of the lowlands come from the Murray Darling Basin, as commonly believed. Murray cod that had, and in some cases still they have a significant presence in the highlands.

Murray cod prefer deep holes with cover as large rocks, fallen trees, logs, banks clay and vegetation territorial colgante.Muy.

Diet

Diet
Murray cod have a varied diet of other fish, freshwater crayfish with thorns, Lobsters River, Prawns, freshwater mussels, frogs, acuatic birds, small mammals, turtles and other reptiles. Virtually anything within its scope that moves and is small enough to fit in his cavernous mouth.

Diet
(Top Predator) Murray cod have a varied diet of other fish, freshwater crayfish with thorns, Lobsters River, Prawns, freshwater mussels, frogs, acuatic birds, small mammals, turtles and other reptiles. Virtually anything within its scope that moves and is small enough to fit in his cavernous mouth is considered fair play!

The decline in the number of cod Murray is due to multiple factors. Contrary to popular belief, overfishing has played a huge role in reducing Murray Cod,They were grotesquely over-exploited by commercial fishermen in the second half of the nineteenth century. For example,in 1883, more than 147 Murray tonnes of cod were sent to market a single port (Moama).

During this time, anglers also massively forced the species and sobreexplotada.Abundan old photographs of anglers literally dozens stringing Murray cod fishing seemed to vez.La inagotable.Lamentablemente now know that it was not. Nevertheless, excessive fishermen also kill these fish continue to cause serious problems for these fish so that it remains a kind of long-term.

A SALUTE TO FRIENDS PESCAPROFESIONAL

• COD, MURRAY