Carbunup River - Carbunup Reserve North
Basin : Busselton Coast
Catchment : Carbunup River
The condition of the Carbunup Reserve North site (site code: CR2-CARB1), in the middle catchment of the Carbunup River, was assessed between 17 and 18 February 2016, over a 100-m length of stream. At this time no previous assessments of river ecology had been reported.
The assessment was conducted using standard methods from the South West Index of River Condition. Measures chosen for this assessment included fish and crayfish, macroinvertebrates, aquatic habitat, water quality (dissolved oxygen, temperature, electrical conductivity, and pH logged every 30 minutes from 15 December 2015 to 30 May 2016 and colour, alkalinity, turbidity and nutrients), fringing vegetation, channel morphology, erosion, connectivity, local land use and flow.
Condition summary
An online condition summary for this site has not been prepared. Please contact the Departments River Science team for site information, and see below for links to information on some of the species found at the site, and some images taken in 2016.
Fish and crayfish
Four fish and two crayfish species were found at this site in 2016, including one exotic fish.
A list of species is provided at the bottom of the page, click on the images to learn more about each species.
Note: only fish and crayfish are targeted by sampling methods, however where other species were caught and/or observed they are included below.
Species found in subcatchment
Other aquatic fauna
Carter’s freshwater mussel (Westralunio carteri) were observed at this site.