OzFish members are working together with landowners and Woolshed Thurgoona Landcare Group to restore the riparian vegetation along Hordon’s Lagoon. The project will plant native vegetation corridors, install riparian protection fencing and host community planting days. Once completed it is ...
Fishers and farmers OzFish Tweed River Chapter and Tweed Landcare Inc are working with cattle farmers on the Tweed River, near Byangum and its canoe launching point. Together they will be removing weeds and planting over 1000 trees along their riparian zone and fencing it to keep the cattle ...
OzFish Lismore Chapter and Whian Whian Landcare, along with Northern Cooperative Meat Company and Lismore City Council’s Landholder Initiative are working together with beef cattle farmers on Rocky Creek to provide easily accessible water for cattle to stop their access to the Creek and ...
OzFish members recently planted 360 native trees on Brunswick River in Northern NSW to revegetate the riverbanks bordering two properties along Main Arm Road. OzFish volunteers worked with community groups Brunswick Valley Landcare & Replant Byron to help reinvigorate the local ecosystem and ...
Trees for fish OzFish Unlimited has partnered with Manning Landcare and private landowners on the Manning River to improve native fish habitat by planting trees on the riverbank. The project site is about 13 kilometres upstream from Taree near where Burrell Creek meets the Manning. Weed ...
Caring for the Peel OzFish Northwest Chapter will work alongside Tamworth Regional Landcare Association to replant the western bank of the Peel River from Jewry St Bridge to beginning of Wallamore Annabranch. The area encompassing Jewry St weir and kayak launch area and confluence of ...
OzFish has planted more than 1,000 native grasses, shrubs and trees to combat riverbank erosion and create healthy habitat for native fish and wildlife, including the platypus. The project is part of OzFish’s Driving Fish Habitat Action partnership with Landcare NSW, with funding support ...
OzFish Hawkesbury-Nepean Chapter in partnership with Hawkesbury-Nepean Landcare Network are replanting the riparian vegetation and stabilising a section of creek bank and improve fish habitat along part of School House Creek. This area is typically River Flat Eucalypt Forest, it contains ...
OzFish Hunter River Chapter are working together with Lower Hunter Landcare to restore the riparian vegetation of 500m of Hunter River bank, removing the problematic Balloon Vine and replacing weeds with a corridor of native vegetation set to provide shade, insects and habitat for the fish in ...
OzFish Unlimited has partnered with Tregeagle Landcare and private landowners on Boggy Creek, tributary of Tucki Tucki Creek which flows into the far-famed Tuckean Swamp. OzFish are working on several ways to improve native fish habitat in the area, including planting trees on the creek ...
OzFish Wagga will work alongside Landcare NSW volunteers to undertake a native vegetation restoration project within the inlets of Lake Albert. This project will be designed to assist with reducing future erosion and sediment issues that Lake Albert is currently facing. The project will involve ...
In a first for Leeton, essential fish habitat in the Murrumbidgee River was recently installed providing vital habitat for native fish. Volunteers from OzFish and Murrumbidgee Landcare worked together to raise funds and plan and install eight giant snags and several smaller ones. Paul ...
There’s now 14,300 more trees along NSW riverbanks that will provide shade and stable water temperatures, insect fall and eventually snags for fish. Sixty more snags in our rivers installed which will provide instant homes, shelter and food for fish, along with 30km of riverbank weeded, cleaned up and restored. Plus a trash rack stopping litter, eight engagement events, and a search for a lost fish in Sydney.
A new crop of native trees and plants are set to breathe new life into the banks of Horden’s Lagoon at Wirlinga as Woolshed Thurgoona Landcare Group and OzFish Unlimited prepare for an upcoming community planting day on Sunday August 22nd. Volunteers will meet at Horden’s Lagoon, Riverina Highway, Wirlinga at 9.30am and get their hands dirty planting native vegetation over three hours out on the field. The restoration will help stabilise banks, preventing erosion while also providing valuable habitat of aquatic wildlife and birdlife.
Whether it be finding a lost Macquarie perch, dealing with plastic pollution, building fish hotels, bringing fish back into the backstreets of Sydney or opening ‘fish nightclubs’, local recreational fishers and Landcarers have been doing their part in restoring their local waterways across New South Wales. OzFish and Landcare groups have achieved 15 habitat restoration projects together since their partnership commenced in 2019 and its exactly what our fisheries need to recover and thrive.
OzFish and Landcare NSW partnership to deliver improved fish habitat in NSW has achieved close to one million dollars of habitat restoration work in its first twelve months. With an initial investment from the NSW Recreational Fishing Trusts of $200 000, the two groups have attracted an additional $330,000 cash investment and over $500,000 in-kind support into fish habitat restoration work for the state’s inland rivers and coastal waterways. The partnership focuses on local groups coming together to determine their waterway’s fish habitat needs and to take action to improve it. Under the expert guidance from the OzFish team, groups devised a range of projects including, re-snagging, trash racks, re-planting, fish monitoring, weeding, fencing and clean-ups.
OzFish Unlimited and Landcare NSW are joining forces to drive collaboration across New South Wales that will empower local community members to improve Australia’s land and water habitats. Focusing on on-the-ground works to improve the health of fish habitats in their local rivers, the project partnership will enable OzFish chapters and local Landcare groups to work together to deliver river restoration projects. Landcare NSW CEO, Dr Adrian Zammit, said the partnership will provide additional support for Landcare groups to continue their work with river catchments
