Join OzFish, NRM South and CSIRO for a tour through the CSIRO Workshop, where you’ll get a chance to see a lot of interesting machinery and displays! You will learn about seagrass as fish habitat, the effects of traditional moorings on seagrass, and get a close look at the Environmentally Friendly Moorings (EFMs) developed by...
Up to 70% of our favourite species to fish for use saltmarsh as habitat for at least one stage of their life cycle! These habitats play an essential role in providing nursery habitats for juvenile fish, which you may catch downstream a few years later. Join OzFish and NRM South at Orielton Lagoon to learn...
Join NRM South, UTAS and OzFish for a tour with Vishnu Prahalad of one of Australia’s biggest saltmarsh restoration projects. You will be given the opportunity to help collect baseline data for the project by assisting with the collection of infauna samples. You’ll also hear about the incredible role saltmarsh habitat plays in supporting healthy...
Join OzFish, NRM South and CSIRO to conduct quarterly inspections of the Environmentally Friendly Moorings (EFMs) deployed in North West Bay. Come along to learn more about the effect of traditional moorings vs. EFMs, the importance of fish habitat, and to assist us with mooring inspections.Please note that the timing of this event will be...
Come along to this seagrass seed collection day to support a Tasmanian first! This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in Tasmania’s first seagrass restoration trial. Join OzFish and IMAS for a day out in the field and help us collect seagrass seeds which will be used for the next stages of the trial. ...
Up to 70% of our favourite species to fish for use saltmarsh as habitat for at least one stage of their life cycle! These habitats play an essential role in providing nursery habitats for juvenile fish, which you may catch downstream a few years later. Join OzFish and NRM South at Orielton Lagoon to learn...
Join us for an informative talk on seagrass, one of the most important and fascinating ecosystems in the world. What’s the big deal with seagrass? It’s so much more than the annoying stuff you get your lures snagged in or wrapped around your boat props. Why should you care? In a nutshell: healthy seagrass meadows...
Join us for an informative talk on saltmarsh, an often overlooked ecosystem, but in reality one of the most important ecosystems in the world. Up to 70% of our favourite species to catch use saltmarsh as habitat for at least one stage of their life cycle! These habitats play an essential role in providing...
This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in Tasmania’s first seagrass restoration trial! Join OzFish and IMAS for a day out in the field to assist with and learn about the four different restoration methods being used in the trial. Seagrass meadows are incredibly important as fish habitat. One hectare of seagrass is estimated...
Join NRM South, UTAS and OzFish for a tour with Vishnu Prahalad of one of Australia’s biggest saltmarsh restoration projects (read more about the project here). You will be given the opportunity to help collect essential data for the project by assisting with the collection of fish or vegetation samples. You’ll also hear about the...
We would like to invite all current OzFish members to join us at the 2023 OzFish Unlimited Annual General Meeting.
Will you step up to clean up? On Clean Up Australia Day last year, OzFish chapters collectively removed more than half a tonne of rubbish in a single day – this is your chance to get involved and help tackle litter in your waterways. When you dedicate your time to cleaning up our shorelines and...