OzFish, supported by the NSW Government’s Environmental Trust is running Growing river Stewardship a year-round program of engagement activities and events across New South Wales, providing volunteers and communities with opportunities to protect and enjoy their local waterways. Why not join us?
OzFishers all over Australia host waterway clean-up events any day of the year to ensure recreational fishers are contributing to do more than they take. They use a clean-up as an opportunity to get outside and enjoy the outdoors, but also to discover and discuss the impacts and outcomes of our reliance on single-use plastics, the issue of pollution and how it damages rivers, streams and the oceans and threatens entire ecosystems and the animals that live there.
We’ve found something that every fisher can do to reduce the fishing litter in our waterways.
It’s super simple – know your knots! If you’re good at tying on your rigs and lures, you’ll lose less! We have created some handy ‘how to’ videos and instructions on how to tie a few useful fishing knots.
We’ve also got a great challenge for you, the Know Your Knots Challenge, how fast can you tie your fishing knots?
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.
Tarcutta Creek is a southern tributary of the Murrumbidgee River Catchment had suffered for years. It was when the eroding banks significantly reduced the remaining fish habitat by undermining the overhanging bank vegetation and smothering snags and microhabitats nearby with sediment that OzFish Wagga Chapter wanted to help.
Tarcutta Creek is a southern tributary of the Murrumbidgee River Catchment had suffered for years. It was when the eroding banks significantly reduced the remaining fish habitat by undermining the overhanging bank vegetation and smothering snags and microhabitats nearby with sediment that OzFish Wagga Chapter wanted to help.
In 2020 OzFish volunteers set out to extensively habitat map Potterwalkagee Creek to better inform future restoration activities. Wetlands and creek systems are one of the most productive environments within the Murray Darling Basin, as they provide essential breeding and foraging habitat for a variety of aquatic species. The results indicated that there is a significantly greater abundance and biomass of woody habitats in the upper sections of Potterwalkagee Creek compared to
Every year 100 million native fish are killed by irrigation pumps when they get sucked into the pumps and swept down irrigation channels. But a simple solution could stop this carnage. Installing fish screens on pumps may just be one of the most important restoration projects of the 21st century for the Murray Darling Basin.
Tenterfield Creek has been in dire need of rehabilitation. Vital fish habitat has been modified, lost or destroyed through human-induced change. This along with drought, fire and floods has put enormous pressure on native fish populations and fewer fish means reduced fishing.
OzFish Northwest Chapter in Tamworth is restoring native fish habitat in their local Peel river. Historically desnagging and removal of vegetation from the riverbanks have contributed to a decline in fish stocks. The Peel River has known populations of threatened species
Sunraysia OzFish volunteer’s have been restoring Kings Billabong an iconic site for our local recreational fishers situated close to Mildura, Victoria.
OzFish volunteers have spent hours undertaking a native fish habitat restoration project so our native fish can thrive in the area.
OzFish Australia’s only fishing conservation charity in 2020 hosted a series of public talks called Thinking Fish – about fishing and its future across Australia. These public TEDx style talks are given by experts passionate and knowledgeable about fish and fishing. They outline issues important to fish and how local communities can help protect and enhance fishing habitats across the country, the talks will be thinking big, thinking fish and thinking future.
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