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Everybody has a role to play in recovering native fish. The health of native fish in the Murray−Darling Basin is a vital legacy that we leave for future generations.

Australian Government funding under the Northern Basin Toolkit is helping to protect native fish by building fishways, installing screens on pumps and pipes and improving delivery of water for the environment.

For World Wildlife Day today, find out the fascinating way fish use ladders to move up and down streams over weirs, barrages and locks for their long-term survival and a healthy river system.

Basin state governments create the majority of rules governing water trade in the Basin. They are responsible for developing and maintaining the rules around water access and use.

The Victorian Fisheries Authority (VFA) is providing $96,000 in funding to learn more about the habitat preferences of Murray cod in the Goulburn River.

More than 1,000 fingerlings have been released across Victoria and southern New South Wales as part of a breeding program to help restore a once extinct native fish.

The Basin Plan water trading rules commenced on 1 July 2014.

The Australian Government is providing $6.6 million to the Queensland Government to deliver a program of work that could see more young native fish survive in the northern Basin rivers.

Under the Basin Plan water trading rules, irrigation infrastructure operators who meet Rule 15 of the Water Charge (Infrastructure) Rules 2010 are required to provide us with a copy of their trading rules.

An exchange rate is a method used to manage the trade of water access entitlements between trading zones. An exchange rate is a conversion that accounts for differences between water access entitlements including differences in transmission losses and changes in reliability.