The Murray-Darling Basin Authoritys Native Fish Strategy promotes the principles of integrated pest management to mitigate such threats, and recently funded a three-year study (Project MD1043: Native fish recovery following the removal of alien fish species) to explore the relative economic costs of alien species control actions in relation to the ecological benefits to native fish communities. The Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research was commissioned to undertake this project, with the following objectives: 1. Review current knowledge of the impacts of Eastern Gambusia on native fishes of the MDB. 2. Provide information on the response of native fish communities following the reduction of Eastern Gambusia populations. 3. Provide a framework to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of such control actions and, form a template for evaluating control options for other alien fishes across the MDB.
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