Talk:Golden perch

Freshes

Is "freshes" really a word, it is used quite often like in here "Golden perch have a flexible breeding strategy but generally need a spring or summer flood or "fresh" to stimulate spawning. Like most primarily lowland native fish species of the Murray–Darling river system, these floods or freshes appear to be necessary for good survival and recruitment of spawned fish." A search on google or wikipedia doesn't reveal anything either. Is it jargon, if so could someone change the word?

The word "fresh" is commonly used in Australia amongst those working in and recreational users of our inland waterways. It refers to the effect of a sudden influx of freshwater usually but not exclusively from rainfall far upstream of the location in question. It is a highly descriptive and appropriate word to use to describe the sudden change in water quality that occurs when these events occur, typically water temperature drops, oxygen levels rise, and salinity drops. A "fresh" is usually followed by a period of increased productivity and many species time their breeding to take avantage of this. Nick Thorne 11:57, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Grammer

• It is not correct to state that Australian conditions are challenging, in some places it is anything but, however it is correct that it is often challenging.

• "that ensures that" seems clumsy so I changed the first that to which.

• Maximum recorded age is 26 years, and will remain so until someone finds a fish that is older than 26 years. Think about it this way - if it was 26 years, then what is it now?

Nick Thorne 11:57, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Why is golden perch showing as being in Scienidae family???

This is wrong. Golden perch are the Percichthyidae family. Seems difficult to fix though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.47.132.150 (talk) 00:17, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

You are completely correct. Looks like something wrong with the template, I'll see if I can find somebody to help fix this. - Nick Thorne ^talk 01:35, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

I have manually corrected the family in this and the other species of Maquaria. I cannot understand why the template gives the incorrect info automatically, as far as I can tell the info at each taxonomic level is correct. Weird. - Nick Thorne ^talk 02:25, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

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