Restoring Cultural Fishing Places and Spirit OzFish recognises that First Nations people have lost many of the places that were most significant to them for fishing, for their spiritual connection to Country and for food sources. OzFish sets out to restore these places alongside First Nations groups, including habitat, fish traps, songlines, meeting places, yarning…
n 2020 and 2022, OzFish Wagga Wagga utilised the best-practice riverbank stabilisation techniques to restore the eroded bank and habitat loss in Tarcutta Creek. OzFish Wagga Wagga is now moving into stage three of their fish habitat restoration efforts at Tarcutta Creek, by installing 200 tonnes of rock and 15 woody habitat.
OzFish Wagga will work alongside Landcare NSW volunteers to undertake a native vegetation restoration project within the inlets of Lake Albert. This project will be designed to assist with reducing future erosion and sediment issues that Lake Albert is currently facing. The project will involve planting 450 native vegetation at the five sites across Crooked creek and 150 native vegetation at Stringybark creek.
Tackle Loop is OzFish’s solution to provide a home for recreational fishers’ old, unwanted, and broken gear. Working with our partners, we will take in old and discarded gear before ensuring it is recycled instead of polluting Australia’s waterways or ending up in landfill.
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.
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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