Tangle Bin Initiative expands to Darwin
OzFish Tangle Bins are launching in Darwin, following the success of the program in South East Queensland. Eight bins will be installed at popular fishing spots.
Citizen Science
Tangle Bins Gold Coast
OzFish Tangle Bins have been installed in target areas within South East Queensland since 2019. There are now 43 bins that get monitored and sorted by a dedicated team of volunteers. The bins give fishers the ability to do the right thing and put their discarded tackle and washed out bait-bags into a purpose build bin near their favourite fishing spots.
Tangle Bins
OzFish Tangle Bins are now available to target areas and interested OzFish Chapters who have local fishing spots that are plagued by incorrectly disposed litter. The bins will give fishers the ability to do the right thing and put their discarded tackle and washed out bait-bags into a purpose build bin, closest to their favourite fishing spots.
North Queensland Fish Monitoring
The Bohle and Ross River catchments are the focus of fish surveys to improve urban waterway management with the help of volunteer recreational anglers.
Richmond Rock Oysters
OzFish Richmond River Chapter is investigating a new variation of Sydney Rock Oyster, which may turn out to be the disease-resistant oyster everyone in the commercial industry has been looking for.
Clarence River Fisher Science
The OzFish Clarence Water Quality Pilot Project is an exciting initiative to assess and improve the water quality of the Clarence River and its tributaries. Undertaking this project on Bundjalung Country, we pay our respects to the elders past, present, and emerging and their ongoing connection to and care for Country. Join us in this critical endeavour to safeguard this vital ecosystem’s health, which supports recreational and commercial fishing.
Pimp My Jetty – Gold Coast QLD
OzFish Gold Coast Chapter will work with 10 private jetty owners to install environmentally friendly hanging habitat to help restore vitally important shellfish reefs to the waterways of the Gold Coast. The project is funded by City of Gold Coast 2022/23 Catchment and Citizen Science Grants Program, and supported BCF – Boating, Camping, Fishing.
Pimp My Jetty – Peel-Harvey WA
OzFish’s innovative ‘Pimp My Jetty’ program is helping to return shellfish habitat to the Peel-Harvey estuary, near Mandurah in Western Australia and address an important ecological challenge. The project brings together recreational fisher volunteers and the local community to restore healthy habitat that supports native fish and benefits all.
Georges River, NSW
The Georges, Shoalhaven and Kangaroo Rivers in New South Wales may hold a secret.
A silvery perch ghost that has not been recorded in the wild since 1998.
The species has no formal name but is commonly known as the Macquarie River Perch or Kangaroo River. It has been shown to be genetically separate to the Macquarie Perch from the Murray Darling Basin, but with so few records it has not been formally described.
Lilliesmere Creek, Lower Burdekin, North Queensland
The project aims to monitor water quality in a tropical coastal wetland and is a collaboration between Australia’s dedicated fishing conservation organisation OzFish Unlimited, NQ Dry Tropics and recreational fishers from the Burdekin Fish Stocking Association.
Saltwater Creek Cairns, QLD
Saltwater Creek urban catchment north of Cairns’ CBD will use fish surveys to improve urban waterway management through the help of volunteer recreational anglers within OzFish Cairns Chapter.
Giant Kelp Restoration Project, Tasmania
Giant kelp forests in many locations in Australia are getting smaller. Some of the most dramatic declines have occurred in Tasmania, where 95% of the iconic giant kelp forests have disappeared, and are now listed as an endangered marine community.
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