Large Aboriginal communities lived year-round in this ancient volcanic landscape, where they farmed, smoked and traded eels.
Indigenous Australians, the Gunditjmara people, engineered the landscape to create a very sophisticated aquaculture industry with diversion channels, weirs and stone eel traps. The Southern Shortfin Eel was the basis of an ancient freshwater fishery in the Lake Condah region of south-west Victoria, dating back almost 7000 years. During their migration to freshwater, the young eels are able to climb barriers such as waterfalls and dam walls. As they grow, the transparent leaf-like larvae are transported southwards via the East Australian Current, and metamorphose into glass eels before migrating to estuaries in south-eastern Australia. Southern Shortfin Eels have long cylindrical bodies, and continuous dorsal, caudal and anal fins with the dorsal fin originating above or slightly in front of the anal fin.Īdults spend up to 20 years in freshwater, before migrating to the sea to breed in the Coral Sea.
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