To survive and thrive, native fish need clean water, shelter, food and room to move. Maintaining or improving these elements for fish, while still ensuring the floodplain is viable and productive, is a complex challenge. Y our approach to the task will vary with your property management objectives. T his section provides simple, yet effective principles which, when deciding to farm in a fish friendly manner, will assist in achieving these objectives
The principles outlined in this section may also enhance the ecosystem for more than just native fish, providing additional benefits for other aquatic and terrestrial animals. The information provided in the ‘fish friendly farms’ section encourages you as a land manager to consider potential off-farm impacts of farming practices in conjunction with those which influence the environment on-farm.
Additional information and guidelines on riparian land management on cotton farms is available in the comprehensive Managing riparian lands in the cotton industry: a resource for people in the cotton industry to assist them in improving riparian land management on cotton farms (Lovett et al. 2003).
