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  • Reflections and OzFish host sustainable fishing competition at Burrinjuck Waters

    January 24, 2025
    Fishers paradise Burrinjuck Waters will host the Reflections Sustainable Fishing Series for the first time on March 21-23, offering recreational fishers the chance to hook into a $25,000 prize pool, brush up on their sustainable fishing practices and haul in a new personal best catch. Tickets are now on sale for the Burrinjuck Waters competition,…
  • South Australians urged to take bucket on beach strolls this summer

    December 26, 2024
    This summer, South Australians are being urged to carry a bucket with them on their beach strolls – and get the kids engaged in a real-life scavenger hunt for seagrass fruit that will be used to restore the local coastline. OzFish, Australia’s fish habitat charity, are warning that unless they get more Posidonia seagrass fruits…
  • EPA and OzFish: Litter grant big catch for NSW fishing community.

    November 26, 2024
    Litter at recreational fishing spots is being reeled in by 50% in the next five years with Australia’s largest community fishing conservation charity, OzFish, awarded $420,000 by the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA). OzFish is tackling litter through on the ground projects like clean-up events, repurposing old fishing gear, and initiatives that educate people around…
  • Seeds for Snapper in Cockburn Sound begins, aims to plant two million Posidonia seeds.

    November 4, 2024
    Climatic conditions and warmer ocean temperatures have forced an earlier start to the annual seagrass restoration work in Cockburn Sound, but volunteer fishers, divers and researchers remain undeterred from their goal to almost double their previous efforts and plant two million Posidonia seeds. OzFish’s Seeds for Snapper, now in its seventh year, began today after…
  • OzFish welcomes new Queensland government, urges focus on fish habitat restoration.

    November 4, 2024
    Australia’s key fish habitat restoration charity, OzFish, welcomes Premier David Crisafulli and the newly elected Queensland government. It looks forward to working with them to continue to support and inspire recreational fishers and all Queenslanders to take action for their waterways and habitats for native fish. OzFish CEO Cass Price extended her congratulations to Minister…
  • Reflections Sustainable Fishing Series casts off at Copeton

    October 28, 2024
    The inaugural Reflections Sustainable Fishing Series casts off at Copeton Dam this weekend, with keen anglers vying to claim some of the $25,000 prize pool as they are actively encouraged to protect waterways for future generations.  The Series kicks offs at Reflections Copeton Waters on November 1-3, proceeds to Reflections Burrinjuck Waters (Series 2: March…
  • Habitat rafts help Australia’s threatened Olive Perchlet return home

    October 21, 2024
    With the extinction crisis capturing headlines around the country, innovative habitat rafts – and a First Nations partnership – aims to assist bringing a threatened native fish back from the brink of extinction, and back home. The Olive Perchlet, also known as Agassiz’s Glassfish, is a native small-bodied fish that was once common throughout the…
  • Nature Positive Summit: All Australians must “pitch in” to save our waterways

    October 10, 2024
    As industry leaders meet in Sydney for the inaugural Global Nature Positive Summit, Australia’s key waterway restoration charity, OzFish, says that empowering all people in Australia to “pitch in” with restoring our natural environments is key to a nature positive future. OzFish CEO Cassie Price said, “We believe the most complex challenges can be solved…