QLD Catch of the Day

[pink nipper]

IT'S being hailed as the catch of the day across Queensland - a rare lungfish was rescued from the carpark of a Gympie hotel today by a kind-hearted local.

The lucky lungfish found itself in the carpark of Billy's Hotel after coming in on the tide during flooding in Gympie.

A lady picked the fish up and then carried it back to deeper water.

According to Wikipedia, the Queensland lungfish can live for several days out of the water, if it is kept moist, but will not survive total water depletion, unlike its African counterparts.

The species was used by environmentalists in their fight to stop the Traveston Crossing Dam, near Gympie.

Nip.

[Prof]

Well done to the lady to help it go back to the river

Thats a good size lung fish !!

I wonder what else is roaming around in the flood waters??

Cheers

[max]

I see some Pros. caught a Barra over a mtr in a lake down Sydney way.