Life Membership Barry Crockford

ANGFA National Life Membership
awarded to Barry Crockford
“Barry has been an active
contributor within and supporter of
ANGFA for over 30 years ....
......ANGFA’s experiences with the
PNG rainbowfish would have been
substantially less if not for Barry’s
contribution to ANGFA and the
hobby.”
Rodney Wubben
Barry Crockford has been an active member of ANGFA
ever since its inception in the early 1970s.
Barry worked in the aircraft industry in Papua New
Guinea from the 1960s
Travelled to PNG from mid 1970s to 1980s to collect and
bring back to Australia many new species of rainbowfish
to share with ANGFA and its members.
Glossolepis maculosus –
The Spotted Rainbow
Barry discovered this fish in
1979 (Omsis River, PNG )
The vast majority of PNG rainbowfish present in Australia from 1970s - 1980s
were brought into the country by Barry
The list of fish include:
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Melanotaenia goldiei
M. lacustrus
M. papuae
M. parkinsoni
M. sexlineata
M. affinis Pagwi
Pseudomugil furcatus
P. conniae
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Glossolepis wannamensis
G. maculosus
Chilatherina axelrodi
C.campsi
C. fasciata --Lake Wanam
Tateuredina
ocellicauda (Peacock Gudgeon)
Barry’s contributions to ANGFA and
native fish however did not stop
there
Barry established the ‘Rainbowfish
Species group’ (RSG) in the early
1990s with a few other ANGFA
members, to conserve many of the
rainbowfish (and particularly from
PNG) which had substantially
declined in numbers within the hobby
at that time.
One of Barry’s major contributions
within the RSG over the 1990s was
performing a major breeding program
for the C. axelrodi.
Starting from only one small male
identified in Melbourne and two
mature females (of only a few
females)
This was the total stock identified in
Australia and from this micropopulation Barry bred at least six
generations over a 10 year period to
bring them back to a strong healthy
population.
He released back out to ANGFA and
the hobby around 2000.
During this period of the 1970s up into the 1990s Barry provided many articles to
ANGFA and had a number of his papers published in ‘Fishes of Sahul’
Fishes of Sahul contributions
Crockford, B. 1984. Melanotaenia lacustris,
Lake Kutubu Rainbow. Fishes of Sahul 1(4), 4346.
Crockford, B. 1985. Chilatherina campsi. Fishes
of Sahul 3(2), 116-118.
Crockford, B. 1985. Glossolepis
maculosus. Fishes of Sahul 3(1), 102-104.
Crockford, B. 1985. Glossolepis
wanamensis. Fishes of Sahul 3(2), 113-116.
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Fishes of Sahul contributions
Crockford, B. 1984. Melanotaenia lacustris,
Lake Kutubu Rainbow. Fishes of Sahul 1(4), 4346.
Crockford, B. 1985. Chilatherina campsi. Fishes
of Sahul 3(2), 116-118.
Crockford, B. 1985. Glossolepis
maculosus. Fishes of Sahul 3(1), 102-104.
Crockford, B. 1985. Glossolepis
wanamensis. Fishes of Sahul 3(2), 113-116.
Fishes of Sahul contributions
Crockford, B. 1997. Kiunga ballochii. Fishes of
Sahul 11(2), 505-507.
Crockford, B. 1998. Melanotaenia
goldei. Fishes of Sahul 12(3), 573-575.
Crockford, B. 1998. Pseudomugil paskai. Fishes
of Sahul 12(2), 561-562.
Crockford, B. 1999. Lake Wanam revisited – a
habitat under threat. Lake Wanam
survey. Fishes of Sahul 13(3), 621-629.
Fishes of Sahul contributions
Crockford, B. 2001. Chilatherina
axelrodi. Fishes of Sahul 15(4), 790-795.
Crockford, B. 2001. Lake Wanam
fasciata Chilatherina fasciata wanamensis, a
subspecies in trouble. Fishes of
Sahul 15(3), 776-779.
Crockford, B. 1984. The
genus Popondetta. Fishes of Sahul 2(2), 6668.
Crockford, B., Littlejohn, P. and Vincent, M.
1999. The Lake Wanam rainbowfish, Papua
New Guinea field expedition. Fishes of
Sahul 13(3), 629-638.