Native Fish Australia

Major Australia Rivers

The Goulburn is the most important Victorian tributary to the Murray River. This section is typical of many rivers in the Murray-Darling basin. It is full of fallen trees which provide the habitat preferred by native fish. Unfortunately, its use as merely a supply channel for irrigation using water from the very large man made Lake Eildon severely interferes with natural cycles in the river. As a result, despite what seems like adequate habitat in the middle and lower reaches, fish populations are far below optimum.

A map of australia showing the major rivers with state boundaries shown and the Murray-Darling basin highlighted

Numeric Key To River Names


1	Murray	2	Darling	3	Murrumbidgee
4	Lachlan	5	Campaspe	6	Yarra
7	Goulburn	8	Latrobe	9	Ovens
10	Snowy	11	Derwent	12	Shoalhaven
13	Hunter	14	Macleay	15	Clarence
16	Bogan	17	Macquarie	18	Namoi
19	Barwon	20	Condamine	21	Warrego
22	Dawson	23	Fitzroy	24	Mackenzie
25	Isaac	26	Burdekin	27	Suttor
28	Mitchell	29	Alice	30	Jardine
31	Staaten	32	Flinders	33	Leichhardt
34	Nicholson	35	Roper	36	Wilton
37	Daly	38	Katherine	39	Victoria
40	Ord	41	Drysdale	42	Fitzroy
43	Margaret	44	De Grey	45	Fortescue
46	Ashburton	47	Gascoyne	48	Murchison
49	Swan/Avon	50	Blackwood	51	Coopers Creek
52	Barcoo	53	Thompson	54	Diamantina
55	Georgina	56	Finke	57	Palmer

Alphabetical Key To River Names


Alice	29	Ashburton	46	Barcoo	52
Barwon	19	Blackwood	50	Bogan	16
Burdekin	26	Campaspe	5	Clarence	15
Condamine	20	Coopers Creek	51	Daly	37
Darling	2	Dawson	22	De Grey	44
Derwent	11	Diamantina	54	Drysdale	41
Finke	56	Fitzroy (Qld)	23	Fitzroy (WA)	42
Flinders	32	Fortescue	45	Gascoyne	47
Georgina	55	Goulburn	7	Hunter	13
Isaac	25	Jardine	30	Katherine	38
Lachlan	4	Latrobe	8	Leichhardt	33
Mackenzie	24	Macleay	14	Macquarie	17
Margaret	43	Mitchell	28	Murchison	48
Murray	1	Murrumbidgee	3	Namoi	18
Nicholson	34	Ord	40	Ovens	9
Palmer	37	Roper	35	Shoalhaven	12
Snowy	10	Staaten	31	Suttor	27
Swan/Avon	49	Thompson	53	Victoria	39
Warrego	21	Wilton	36	Yarra	6