RiverBlackfish

RiverBlackfish
River Blackfish (Gadopsis marmoratus)are a medium sized native fish that occur in the Snowy River catchment of the eastern (coastal) flowing drainages and the Murray-Darling basin in NSW. TheSnowy River catchment population is endangered- methods used to create the predicted current distribution of River Blackfish (Gadopsis marmoratus)are described fully in: NSW Department of Primary Industries (2015), NSW Fish Community Status 2015 – Final Report.The predicted current distribution ofRiver Blackfish (Gadopsis marmoratus) in the Snowy River catchment,NSW. All available records of the species were collated and assessed for accuracy. For current distribution, only records after 1 January 1994 were used. Within the framework of the Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric V2 surface hydrology network, the records were associated with attributes from the National Environmental Stream Attributes Database.Modelling the current geographic distribution of each listed threatened freshwater aquatic species or population was undertaken using MaxEnt 3.3.3; a widely used species distribution modelling program that utilises presence records to generate probabilities of occurrence based on a suite of environmental variables quantified across the area of interest.The Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric V2 surface hydrology network (Geofabric) is a fully connected and directed stream network based a 9 second DEM. It allocates a unique stream segment number to each river reach in Australia. The Environmental Attributes Database is a set of lookup tables supplying attributes describing the natural and anthropogenic characteristics of the stream and catchment environment that was developed by the Australian National University (ANU) in 2011 and updated in 2012. The data is supplied as part of the supplementary Geofabric products which is associated with the 9 second DEM derived streams and the National Catchment Boundaries based on 250k scale stream network. 30 Stream variables were assessed for the modelling.MaxEnt 3.3.3 is a widely used species distribution modelling program that utilises presence records to generate probabilities of occurrence based on a suite of environmental variables quantified across the area of interest. It was used to model the current geographic distribution of each listed threatened freshwater aquatic species or population. We utilised logistic output to plot the predicted distribution of each species. This output equates to a probability that the species will be observed in each river reach, given the environmental conditions that exist there relative to the environmental conditions where the species is known to occur. For this mapping, above 33% probability was considered predicted presence. In addition, predicted separate populations were connected by manual interpretation. The predicted values for each river reach were converted from the Geofabric framework to the higher resolution 2013 NSW Strahler Stream Order Hydroline.

Bendoc River
OBJECTID_1 | 1
StreamName | Bendoc River
Species | River Blackfish

Craigie Bog Creek
OBJECTID_1 | 2
StreamName | Craigie Bog Creek
Species | River Blackfish

Delegate River
OBJECTID_1 | 3
StreamName | Delegate River
Species | River Blackfish

Eucumbene River
StreamName | Eucumbene River

Haydens Bog Creek
StreamName | Haydens Bog Creek

Jacksons Bog
StreamName | Jacksons Bog

Little Bog Creek
StreamName | Little Bog Creek

Little Plains River
StreamName | Little Plains River

Mowamba River
StreamName | Mowamba River

Queensborough River
StreamName | Queensborough River

Snowy River
StreamName | Snowy River

Thredbo River
StreamName | Thredbo River