Region: Strzeleckis

Legal Number: LEGL/93-106

Plantation: Callignee

Conservation Priority: High

THREATENED FISH NOTES - STRZELECKI STREAMS: Habitat for Spotted Galaxias, Common Galaxias, Broadfinned Galaxias, Tupong, Blackfish and the FFG listed Australian Grayling.

Responsible Authority: Wellington Shire Council

Plantation Catchment:
a) 2 creeks + 1 HW Merriman Creek
b) Several tribs + Morrison Creek/Sassafras Creek/Merriman Creek
c) Several HW Morrison Creek/Sassafras Creek/Merriman Creek
d) 2 tribs Merriman Creek + 4 tribs Sassafras Creek/Merriman Creek
e) HW Sassafras Creek/Merriman Creek
f) 2 tribs Merriman Creek
g) 2 tribs Merriman Creek
h) 2 tribs Merriman Creek
I) 2 tribs Merriman Creek
j) 2 HW Hampton Creek/Merriman Creek
k) 2 HW Burgess Creek/Flynns Creek/LaTrobe River

Catchment Managment Authority: West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority

"Rainforest Merrimans Creek:

The section of rainforest at Merrimans Creek does not extend very far down the creek but is very wide, extending high up the slope on the eastern side. There is also a very small section of old growth on the eastern edge of the rainforest. The western side of the creek was cleared for plantation purposes in late 1998 and no buffer was left for the rainforest."
Rainforests in the Strzeleckis by Elaina Fraser.

Merriman Creek, Gormandale: The estuary contains bream, sea mullet, estuary perch, luderick and yellow-eye mullet.

Flynns Creek, Flynn: A small creek with some deep pools in its middle and upper reaches. Flows through open farmland, mud and gravel bottom. Occasionally stops running in summer, lower reaches are badly silted. Contains some brown trout average 250g, maximum 650g, eels, spiny freshwater crayfish, carp, goldfish and tupong.

Source: A Guide to the Inland Angling Waters of Victoria by BR Tunbridge, PL Rogan, CA Barnham. Department Conservation and Environment. Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, 123 Brown St, Heidelberg, 3084. (4th ed - 1991)