Come join OzFish to help plant native trees to improve fish habitat on Emigrant Creek - Tintenbar Stage one involved removing invasive vegetation and now the real fun begins. Roll up your sleeves and help us plant 465 native trees for Australian bass fish! The day is all about restoring vegetation along a stretch of...
OzFish will be cleaning up the saltmarsh where debris has floated and is now causing damage. Due to the recent flood events, we have seen a lot of debris in and around the catchment. Unfortunately, once debris enters waterways it goes out to the ocean. At high tides it can also get stuck in and...
OzFish will be cleaning up the saltmarsh where debris has floated and is now causing damage. Due to the recent flood events, we have seen a lot of debris in and around the catchment. Unfortunately, once debris enters waterways it goes out to the ocean. At high tides it can also get stuck in and...
National Tree Planting Day is coming up and OzFish Richmond River Chapter invites the community to join them and plant some trees The trees will be planted along a creek in Broken Head that connects to North Creek in Ballina. Tree planting along riverbanks is highly beneficial to rivers as it improves riverbank stability and...
Join OzFish for a walk along the banks of along Rocky Creek and learn about what is happening in this important habitat. The project at Tuntable Creek will see the removal of weeds and the reconstruction of native vegetation which will help reduce erosion and improve in stream bank stability. This supports healthy, diverse and...
Join OzFish Richmond River Chapter to plant trees along Skinners Creek, helping to restore 1.5km of riparian fish habitat. Skinners Creek is located in the upper Wilson catchment in Nashua, New South Wales. The project aims to eradicate weeds (privet and camphor laurel), plant native vegetation (4,000 plants), and erect a cattle exclusion fence. These...
Join Richmond River Chapter in search of the pre-historic Australian Lungfish! We are following up on an exciting couple of sightings of the pre-historic Australian Lungfish. The morning will also include a workshop on using eDNA tests, with water bug testing to monitor water quality. Australian Lungfish are known to inhabit areas in south-east Queensland,...
Join OzFish Richmond Chapter at Emigrant Creek to help install reef balls for fish habitat! Fish need habitat to survive. Just like natural reefs, when complex protective structures are provided, fish species abundance and diversity increases. The reef ball installation day will provide us with the opportunity to be a part of an innovative project...