Hungry gold miners created Victoria's Murray cod fisheries – and we're still dealing with the consequences
- Written by: Paul Humphries, Associate professor in ecology, Charles Sturt University
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 which are still with us today.
Within months of the discovery of gold in 1851 in the previously sleepy little hamlets of Ballarat,...
