An initiative by OceanEarth Foundation, through its Ghostnets Australia program, in collaboration with OzFish Unlimited and RecFish SA, 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.
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.
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.
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