Rodney Price
Rodney Price is the Acting Senior Fisheries Manager, Habitat Rehabilitation, with the NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) Fisheries. He holds a Bachelor of Environmental Science from Charles Sturt University and has more than 18 years' experience delivering aquatic habitat rehabilitation, fish passage, fish screening and river restoration projects across inland New South Wales.
Rodney has led major freshwater conservation initiatives, including fish passage remediation, large woody habitat restoration, environmental water management, and stakeholder engagement programs involving government agencies, Aboriginal communities, landholders and industry groups. He has also played a leading role in modernising water diversion infrastructure through fish screening programs, helping protect more than one million native fish annually and contributing to the NSW Diversion Screening Strategy, which identifies priority sites capable of protecting over 8.8 million native fish each year.
Outside work, Rodney is a passionate angler who enjoys exploring remote inland waterways in search of native fish species.
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