PARTNERSHIPS

At OzFish, we collaborate with a diverse range of organisations who share our commitment to making a difference to Australia’s fishing future.

OzFish works with business in a broad range of ways and aims to establish holistic relationships that deliver strategic value to its partners and their customers.

MAJOR PARTNER

Thanks to our major partner BCF – Boating, Camping Fishing for their shared commitment in helping to restore and protect fish habitat and the future of recreational fishing in Australia.

ORGANISATIONAL PARTNERS

We’ve formed collaborative relationships with the following conservation and peak recreational fishing bodies in Australia.

AFANT Logo
RecFishWest
National Landcare Network logo
ACSA - Australian Citizen Science Assocation
Deckee logo

SPONSORS

Businesses that partner with us get the opportunity to profoundly make a difference to Australia’s fishing future and to communicate the values that drive them.  By joining the OzFish movement, you too can be part of the solution helping to improve our cherished pastime across Australia for future generations.

OzFish Unlimited sponsorship and partnerships offer businesses the opportunity to align with a strong national charity that is trusted across Australia to deliver fish habitat restoration and protection initiatives.

McInnes WIlson Lawyers
Club Marine logo

GRANT PROVIDERS

Landowners, agencies, non-profits, NGOs, indigenous community groups, councils, government departments and other stakeholders collaborate with us to get projects done across Australia.

western local land services logo
Queensland Community Foundation logo

PROJECT PARTNERS

These partners are working with us to deliver outcomes for fish habitat, fish and recreational fishers.

TropWATER
NQ Dry Tropics logo
Dry Tropics logo
Townsville City Council Logo
EPA South Australia
Griffith University logo
Wentworth shire council Logo

BECOME A PARTNER

Get in touch with our partnership team to chat about potential business opportunities and working with OzFish.

There are many benefits for your business in becoming a corporate partner with us. From brand enhancement to engaging your team and being identified as a business that is socially responsible.  We will work with you to develop a campaign or giving strategy which will build on your networks, engage your stakeholders and drive results.

Find out more about how we can work together and make a difference to Australia’s fishing future.
Contact OzFish via email [email protected] or 1800 431 308.

AFFILIATIONS

Sustainable Development Goals

At OzFish, we take local action on, and for, Australia’s waterways, but the efforts we make in our communities also form part of larger, global efforts to create a more sustainable future. OzFish is proud to directly support the UN Sustainable Goals, through our projects, programs, campaigns and other initiatives across every state and territory in Australia.

What are the UN Sustainable Development Goals?

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, including Australia, is a “shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future.”

The agenda includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The goals recognise that ending poverty must happen in conjunction with strategies to improve health and education, reduce inequality, and boost economic growth – at the same time as “tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests”.

Which SDGs do OzFish’s programs and projects directly support?

SDG goal 6 – clean water and sanitation
SDG goal 14 – life below water
SDG goal 15 – life on land

OzFish’s work directly supports targets of several SDGs:

  • Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
  • Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.
  • Goal 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.

Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.

Target 6.6 – By 2020, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes.

OzFish empowers local recreational fishers and their communities to take a range of actions to protect and restore their local wetlands, lakes and rivers. Programs, projects and key actions support better quality fish habitat, and improve water quality. This includes:

  • The Murray Darling Basin program that includes River Repair Buses, and actions including restoring riverbank trees, re-snagging and installing fish hotels.
  • Fishable Cities.
  • Tackling Litter, a program that addresses existing litter and litter prevention.
  • Revegetation of riverbanks.
  • Re-snagging.
  • Pest species reduction. OzFish works to reduce pest fish that include Carp, Goldfish and Tilapia that degrade waterways, and can contribute to harmful algal blooms.
  • Removal and prevention of macro-contaminants.
Key OzFish statistics
  • 150 + rivers and creeks are cared for by a local OzFish Chapter.
  • 200 kilometres of waterways are now healthier as a result of OzFish actions.
  • OzFishers have planted 124,130 trees along riverbanks and wetlands.
  • OzFishers have returned 2,413 snags, fish hotels and rocky reefs to our rivers
  • OzFish have cleared over 38 tonnes of rubbish from waterways
  • Each year, OzFish plants between 10,000 to 40,000 trees along riverbanks.

Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.

Target: 14.1: Prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution.

OzFish are actively contributing to this target through:

  • Tackling Litter, which cleans waterways, supports and empowers fishers to improve the level of litter at their local fishing spots. It also encourages a reduction in fishing-related waste, through circularity, sustainable packaging and purchase choices, recycling and reuse.
  • Fishable Cities directly contributes to lowering nutrient pollution.This program actively seeks to plant riverbanks throughout catchments, ensuring nutrient filtering and prevention before it enters the waterways. This can reduce erosion and increase resilience against climate extremes.

Target 14.2: Sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans.

OzFish are actively contributing to this target through:

  • Seagrass for Snapper.
  • Shellfish Revolution.
  • Mangrove and saltmarsh restoration. These systems have a buffering and filtering effect on our marine and coastal estuarine systems, as well as building their long-term resilience to climate extremes.
Key OzFish statistics
  • OzFish have recycled over 208 tonnes of shell into more than 14,000 shellfish reef-building modules.
  • To date, OzFish has restored 36 hectares of shellfish reef, now home to millions of marine creatures and filtering thousands of litres of water daily.
  • OzFishers have collected and redispersed over 4.2 million seeds across 24 hectares of restored seagrass beds.

Goal 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.

Target 15.1: Ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains and drylands, in line with obligations under international agreements.

OzFish empowers local recreational fishers and their communities to take a range of actions to protect and restore their local wetlands, lakes and rivers. Programs, projects and key actions support better quality fish habitat, and improve water quality. This includes:

Target 15.5: Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species

OzFish empowers local recreational fishers and communities to take a range of actions to reduce the degradation of fish habitats and halt the loss of biodiversity in fresh and marine waterways. OzFish also works with governments, universities and other partners to research, understand and restore threatened fish and crayfish species in local waterways.

On-ground works identify and rehabilitate habitat areas crucial to a range of threatened fish and crayfish species, and support breeding and restocking programs of threatened species, conducted by partner organisations.

OzFish are directly supporting habitat for a range of threatened species, that includes:

Target 15.8 – By 2020, introduce measures to prevent the introduction and significantly reduce the impact of invasive alien species on land and water ecosystems and control or eradicate the priority species.

OzFish works to reduce the impact of invasive fish and other aquatic species in Australian water ecosystems through community engagement. We empower rec fishers to target and remove pest species through education, driving awareness, monitoring and active removal through pest species-specific fishing competitions.

OzFish targets a range of pest species that include: