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Dartmouth) (ARI 2007; Ayres 2009; Hunt et al., 2011; Nguyen et al., 2012; Tonkin et al., 2014; Kearns & Tonkin 2015). While recent surveys have detected a few individuals in the Goulburn River 2.5 km downstream from the King Parrot Creek confluence (near Kerrisdale) (GBCMA 2015; Kearns & Tonkin 2015), adults are rare in the Goulburn River and it is too early to see the benefits of stocking. Anecodotal reports from fishers indicate that a small native population also persists upstream and downstream from Lake Nillahcootie in the Broken River (Kearns & Tonkin 2015).
Genetic work on Macquarie perch in Victoria has identified relatively low levels of genetic diversity within discrete populations occurring there (Nguyen et al., 2012; Pavlova et al., 2017a). All Victorian populations of Macquarie perch represent different genetic clusters except individuals from Holland's Creek and Lake Dartmouth, potentially due to the stocking Holland's Creek with fish from Lake Dartmouth (Pavlova et al., 2017a).

    5.3 Translocated populations

A number of translocations of Macquarie perch have occurred within and outside its former natural range. Viable populations of fish sourced from the Murray-Darling Basin now exist in the Yarra River in Victoria (outside its natural range), in the Mongarlowe River (in the former natural range of the Shoalhaven River lineage) and in Cataract Reservoir (in the former natural range of the Hawkesbury-Nepean lineage) in New South Wales.
These translocated populations of Macquarie perch represent important sources for translocations back into existing populations given they contain important genetic diversity no longer present in the remaining Murray-Darling Basin (Pavlova et al., 2017a). These populations and the habitat they occur within, should be protected and restored. If these populations collapse, an important part of the genetic heritage of the species would be lost forever.

New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory
Outside natural range translocations
Macquarie perch were translocated from the Murray-Darling Basin (most likely from the Murrumbidgee River) to the Mongarlowe River, and the Shoalhaven River itself at Nithsdale, on multiple occasions in the late-1800s (likely to be the 'perch' referred to in the Sydney Mail, 22 April 1876, p. 530; Goulburn Evening Penny Post, 1 June 1897, p. 4). The translocated population in the Mongarlowe River once flourished, but has declined considerably since the 1970s (Lintermans 2008). The species was also translocated to Cataract Reservoir (Nepean River catchment) and the Nepean River itself near Sydney using fish captured from the Berembed Weir area of the Murrumbidgee River in around 1916 (SFD 1914; 1923).
Historically, Macquarie perch were translocated from the upper Murrumbidgee River near Cooma to two locations in the Snowy River (Stead 1913). The species has not since been recorded from the Snowy River.
Within natural range translocations
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