Editing Murray cod (section)

== Aquaculture ==
The Murray cod is renowned as a good-tasting fish for eating. In recent years, despite the decline in the wild population, farmed fish are being harvested.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Murray Cod - GoodFish Australia's Sustainable Seafood Guide|url=https://goodfish.org.au/species/murray-cod/|access-date=2021-08-01|website=GoodFish}}</ref>

It has long been known that Murray cod could be translocated to impounded water. In the 1850s, landholder [[Terence Aubrey Murray]] stocked a large and beautiful [[billabong]]—Murray's Lagoon just north of [[Lake George (New South Wales)|Lake George]]—with Murray cod fished out of the [[Molonglo River]] at Murray's other property of  [[Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory|Yarralumla]]. At some time the billabong overflowed and introduced Murray cod into the slightly brackish lake itself. They bred rapidly, and, from the 1850s to the 1890s, Lake George abounded with them.<ref>{{cite news|date=26 March 1863|title=(Leader:) The Golden Age|volume=IV|page=2|newspaper=[[The Golden Age (newspaper)|The Golden Age]]|issue=133|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article30633464|access-date=7 August 2017|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>  Due to the lengthy [[Drought in Australia#Drought in the 20th century|Federation Drought]], by 1902, the lake dried out completely. In their search for water to survive in, the Murray cod flocked into the mouths of the few small creeks feeding the lake and died there by the thousands.<ref>{{cite news|date=23 November 1907|title=The Fisheries|page=14|newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|issue=21,794|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14875819|access-date=7 August 2017|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

Farming Murray cod uses [[Fish meal|fishmeal]] and fish oil as food, but the species has a better ‘wild fish in to farmed fish out’ ratio than other  farmed species such as [[rainbow trout]] and [[Atlantic salmon]]. It commands a premium price compared to those species. It is increasingly farmed, in large dams holding water used for irrigation of farmland, where the presence of effluent produced by the fish is not a problem <ref name=":0" /> {{Clear}}