Long-term ecological monitoring provides a vital ingredient for informed decision-making regarding ecological communities but monitoring alone does not influence decision-making processes. Impactful ecological monitoring needs effective communication tools which serve the needs of decision-makers who are rarely directly involved in the actual long-term monitoring. Here we present a case study from the NSW Murray-Darling Basin where annual reports on fish communities are presented for 10 regions. These reports have been designed provide decision-makers and managers with easy to understand information through the use of a consistent report structure and focus on key figures which place annual information in the context of longer term fluctuations. Over a five year period, the annual reports have evolved to incorporate user feedback and the report generation process has been streamlined and a near-realtime dashboard developed. This talk will introduce the annual reports, near-real time dashboard, the streamlined report generation process, and provide some examples of how these annual reports are informing management decisions.