Water requirements of floodplain rivers and fisheries : existing decision support tools and pathways for development

Abstract

This report comprehensively reviews current environmental flow methodologies and fisheries production models to show that the combination of the DRIFT (Downstream Response to Imposed Flow Transformation) methodology and the Bayesian networks and age-structured fisheries models provides the most promising decision support tools that sustain the productivity and full developmental benefits of large rivers and floodplains.