An initiative by OceanEarth Foundation, through its Ghostnets Australia program, in collaboration with OzFish Unlimited, The Yabby Trap Round-Up is collecting all old and unwanted yabby traps to protect the future of fishing and the health of our waterways. The traps collected will be recycled into useful products for fishers.
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.
OzFish is tackling the litter problem in the Wambuul Macquarie River, starting with building a business case for litter prevention projects in the area. This will provide an understanding of the extent of the litter problem – how much litter is entering the river, from where, and why – enabling us to work with others in the community to implement effective litter prevention programs.
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.
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.
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.
Members of OzFish Lake Macquarie Chapter are bringing an innovative shellfish restoration project to Australia’s largest saltwater tidal waterway. OzFish will work with private jetty owners to install environmentally friendly hanging habitat to help restore vitally important shellfish reefs to the waterway.
OzFish’s innovative ‘Pimp My Jetty’ program aims to increase the availability of fish in Sydney Harbour by transforming existing jetties and pontoons into vibrant fish habitat. The Sydney Harbour Chapter plan to design, build, and monitor eco-friendly structures that will create additional shelter and food sources for fish and enhance the biodiversity of existing jetty structures.
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.
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