If you want to improve the habitat in your fishery, you probably want to provide better conditions for the fish – and enjoy better fishing.
However, it is also an opportunity to provide a good habitat for other wildlife. This booklet explains how you can make lasting improvements to your fishery that will benefit the environment as a whole.
Where habitat has been engineered, modified or otherwise degraded in the past then fisheries improvements may produce good habitat for other wildlife, as well as better fishing. Although it is important to stock waters with the appropriate native species that are capable of thriving in them, it is also possible to alter or improve the habitat to create better conditions for the fish.
Habitat improvements work best where the present habitat has been artificially created, or where it has been modified or degraded in the past. Improvements aimed solely at improving fishing are often not sustainable. In fact they may be harmful to the other wildlife present.