Regional Biopass Strategy - Reconnecting the Dreamtime's Rainbow Serpent

The Burnett Mary Regional Biopass Strategy was produced to provide guidance to government, councils, industry and community stakeholders interested in promoting sustainable fisheries management and the conservation of aquatic biodiversity in the Burnett Mary region.

Many of Australia's native aquatic organisms such as fish, platypus, turtles, water rats, crustaceans (i.e. crayfish, shrimp, etc.) and some frog species undertake migrations/movements for a range of reasons:

to access new habitats or established spawning areas
to search for food
to avoid predators
to defend their territory
for part of their breeding cycle
for juvenile recruitment to habitat areas

Man made structures evident in and beside our streams create a barrier to the movement of aquatic organisms. Blockage to the passage of aquatic organisms has been identified as one of the major threatening processes affecting aquatic biodiversity and instream habitats.

BMRG and the Queensland Government are working with a range of stakeholders toward improving the regions biopassage capabilities through removing and/or modifying ecologically important barriers to biopassage and migration. This is part of an integrated response aimed at bringing about catchment scale improvements to the health of aquatic habitats and biodiversity.

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