The Great Shellfish Hunt Come join the nationwide mission to rediscover Australia’s lost tropical shellfish reefs! The Great Shellfish Hunt calls on recreational fishers and community members to help track Australia’s remaining tropical shellfish reefs. By learning how these reefs behave, and understanding their locations and characteristics, we can restore Australia’s tropical shellfish reefs and…
Once dubbed ‘Kakadu of the South’ for its abundant wildlife, the Tuckean was an engine room for fisheries productivity throughout Northern NSW. Unfortunately, we now know that the modifications to the hydrology of the swamp, largely through floodplain drainage infrastructure, has resulted in poor water quality across it’s floodplain. Resulting in the associated loss of environmental values and despite previous attempts, only small-scale improvements have occurred, poor water quality still occurs regularly, and previous ecosystem values remain diminished.
Saving Our Saltmarsh project, on the lower Richmond River estuary is a project that local Richmond River Chapter volunteer fishers are personally passionate about. Saltmarsh is critically important to the health of the lower Richmond River and its fish population. These communities are important to water quality, bank stability and as fish habitat and fish food source.
OzFish Unlimited are working closely with Yaegl Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation (TOAC) to help restore saltmarsh and mangroves in the Clarence River Estuary, which are culturally and ecologically important native title sites on Yaegl Country.
OzFish is working with the local Gold Coast community to improve the water quality, fish habitat, overall health and amenity of Saltwater Creek Coomera, as part of the Australian Government’s Urban Rivers and Catchments Program, which aims to improve the health of urban waterways for native plants, animals and local communities.
Cochran’s Pool Urumbilum Rivercare Group will restore and safeguard the Magic Pools on Dingo Creek, a tributary to the Orara River with support from the OzFish Coffs Harbour Chapter. The project will restrict vehicle access to the banks of the creek and replace exotic weeds with native vegetation to stabilise the bank and add additional habitat for the endangered eastern freshwater cod.
At South Creek, OzFish members, landcarers, and local community will work together to clean up flood debris at the site, remove invasive weeds, and help replant native vegetation. These work will commence once the site has been fenced off to exclude grazing cattle.
Funded by the Endeavour Energy Community Grants Program, this Collaboration between Shellharbour City Council, Illawarra Landcare, Tullimbah Landcare, and OzFish aims to restore a degraded section of saltmarsh along the foreshore at Karoo Bay.
OzFish Unlimited, local organisations, rec fishers and community members are working together to improve fish habitat at Brisbane Waters, located in the Central Coast region of New South Wales.
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Groundbreaking Research headed by OzFish will uncover if oyster reef restoration can provide a nature-based solution to the problem of nitrogen in Australia’s waterways, A pioneering trial at the North Pine River, north of Brisbane is now underway to see if oyster reefs could be the answer to removing nutrients in waterways and a joint project between OzFish, Unitywater, Healthy Land and Water and the University of Sunshine Coast gets underway.
Each time you go fishing is an opportunity to make a difference and the Fish For Life – Keep It Clean campaign encourages exactly that. Be part of making a difference use the hashtag #FishForLifeKeepItClean, share the videos, and show Australia just how much our waterways mean to recreational fishers by getting involved.
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