Laboratory-based studies

The 150 square metre aquatic lab

The IFRG has a 150 square metre world-class research and teaching facility (the ‘aquatic lab’) at the Charles Sturt Albury campus.

Our world-class facility supports efforts nationally and internationally in researching fisheries ecology, breeding, and behaviour; hydropower and irrigation infrastructure impacts on fish migration; fish passage solutions; and fish screening technologies.

Our laboratory capabilities are facilitated by state-of-the-art equipment, including:

• Two hyperbaric chambers for testing the impacts of barotrauma on aquatic animals
• A shear flume for investigating the impacts of shear stress
• A screen-testing flume for examining the effects of screening technologies
• An otolith saw and microscope for aging otoliths
• Specially-designed aquaria for running behaviour-choice trials