JOIN the Chapter by becoming an OzFish Member today! The Illawarra Chapter will be tackling restoration projects of some of the most important fish habitats in coastal NSW. The Illawarra Chapter is ready to roll up their sleeves and get started with some projects in the area as covid restrictions lift. OzFish Illawarra will be taking on projects from Stanwell Park in the north to Shellharbour in the south, and everywhere in between.
Coffs Harbour Chapter covers a huge area spanning from Wooli, Ebor and Macksville. The types of fishing this area captures give this Chapter has huge potential to have fun restoring different types of fish habitat. The Chapter already has strong relationships with clubs, research centres, commercial partners and universities to help us do whatever we can to improve fish habitat. Join us today to meet like-minded fishers, share your ideas, fix the waterways and go for the odd fishing trip.
The Eurobodalla chapter consists of members from all walks of life. These are people who are passionate about their preferred fishing practices, they come to us from the avid angler and his local fishing club, right through to the casual social fisher who enjoys going it alone.
This Chapter is a very young and active Chapter and they welcome members from all walks of life to joining the team in making fish habitat better.
The Nyah Chapter is based at the Nyah Recreation Reserve on River Street in Nyah 3594.
Bank access along this area is reasonably easy with sandbanks and open areas to fish on the Victorian side. A boat ramp is situated at Nyah Recreation Reserve and offers easy and safe entry to the water for boats.
This Chapter covers a large area but we have members from far and wide willing to roll up their sleeves and get involved. Until each of the major waterways get enough support to form smaller Chapters, members are happy to work together across a mix of habitats, freshwater and saltwater, to make sure habitat happens.
The way our chapter came about was from a natural progression from our ‘Young Husband Fishing Club’ members and others in the region wanting to make the Coorong Estuary fishing like it used to be prior to man’s intervention on the freshwater flows. Well at least as close as we can as we all understand that the northern end of the Coorong Estuary has barrages restricting inflows from the Murray River with locks all the way along with it for water storage giving us food production and drinking water. We had seen the work OzFish had done around the country improving fish habitat and thought we could be part of this in our own backyard.
The chapter was set up by a group of recreational fishers and ecologists with like-minded visions for the future of the South Australian Coast.
The establishment of the Chapter was driven by the desire to bring the Seeds for Snapper project to South Australia. After three successful years of seagrass meadow restoration in WA, the Chapter members believe that it’s now SA’s time to get to work and restore this vital fish habitat in the GSV.
The MIA Leeton Chapter is associated with the anglers who participate in the Leeton Bidgee Classic Fishing Competition on the Murrumbidgee River. This is a huge three-day catch and release fishing competition held March every year. The Chapter holds its own projects such as re-nagging parts of the river to promote sustainability.
The OzFish Barossa Valley Chapter is a team of keen recreational fishers, dedicated to improving the health of fisheries in the famous Barossa Valley region of South Australia.
The chapter started with passionate and local fisher and President Peter that wanted to give back to his local waterways. You will find Peter and the crew out and about on the waters fishing, cleaning, observing the health of the environment. The chapter is always on the lookout to give back to the community and have a good time doing it. All walks of life make up this wonderful chapter so make sure that you join today!
Members of the Indented Head Chapter are passionate recreational fishers and many of the members are also part of the Indented Head Boat Club. The main aims of the Chapter are to work together to establish healthy fish habitat, improve water quality, and assist in reef restoration projects. Members believe that fish populations and water quality can be improved in this area by their efforts to improve habitat and they hope to to involve more recreational fishers in restoration activities.
With a strong connection to the local diving community, OzFish Bayside has partnered with local dive group Ocean Divers to undertake marine debris cleanups at local piers, including Mornington and Mordialloc. They have also obtained invasive species removal permits for the Northern Pacific Sea Star Asterias amurensis in Port Phillip Bay conducting eradication dives at local piers.
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