Image
Camera IconImage Credit: Supplied/Supplied

Help Recfishwest release snapper into wild this weekend

Justin BianchiniThe Advocate

It is part of the release of 50,000 juvenile pink snapper into Cockburn Sound this month, the second instalment of Recfishwest’s Snapper Guardians.

Baby snapper collected as eggs from the wild were hatched and raised in the Australian Centre for Applied Aquaculture Research’s facilities.

MORE: Bullsbrook Stop: anti-fracking ute muster to deliver message ahead of election

MORE: Elective surgery wait times at Armadale Kelmscott Memorial Hospital to blow out

PerthNow Digital Edition.
Your local paper, whenever you want it.

Get in front of tomorrow's news for FREE

Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion.

READ NOW

MORE: Woodvale man charged with alleged rape of 11-year-old girl in Scarborough park

“Cockburn Sound’s pink snapper stock is one of the most important fish stocks in WA – these waters are home to the largest spawning aggregations of this species on the West Coast,” Recfishwest chief executive Andrew Rowland said.