Returning cod to the wild | Queensland Country Life - video Dailymotion

Mary River cod are released in an undisclosed location to replace the extinct Brisbane River cod.

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00:00So we're here in South East Queensland, on another creek, you can see the habitat that

00:06crawled down through here, there's root balls here, undercut as water goes back in underneath,

00:13there's rocks in through it, really good habitat for these little cod that we're letting go

00:18today.

00:19We've got Mary River cod and we're putting them back in to replace the Brisbane or the

00:26South East Queensland cod, just mixing some water with the water from the hatchery, so

00:37these fish are all purchased from commercial breeders, there's a few guys that are allowed

00:41to breed these endangered species, so we buy them, we're leasing them and they'll take

00:51about a year long, they'll take 5, 8, 10 years to reach a mature size and hopefully they'll

00:57start breeding on their own.