SPECIES DESCRIPTION

Redfin Perch is a perch introduced into Australia by earlier settlers in 1862. Thought by some to be a nuisance fish and others a fine fighting fish, it has been blamed (along with the European Carp) for depleting some of our native species. Redfin Perch are found through out many rivers, creeks, billabongs, dams, and swamps in southern, south-western, central and western New South Wales, through most of Victoria, and in smaller areas of South Australia, Tasmania and the southern corner of Western Australia. Particularly common in the Murray-Darling system other than Queensland.