Extreme flooding has resulted in hypoxic blackwater events which is having a devastating effect on fish and freshwater crayfish along the Murray River and its tributaries in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. OzFish have been working alongside authorities to deploy our Fish ...
At the end of 2019, bushfires ravaged the Tenterfield area and a following rain event saw chemical, ash and sediment impact the water quality of Tenterfield Creek damaging the habitat of the southern purple spotted gudgeon. OzFish Unlimited and Landcare Australia got together through the ...
The Black Summer Bushfires of 2019-20 ravaged the east coast of Australia at an unprecedented scale and ferocity and was followed by high rainfall, dealing our precious and unique waterways with a devastating blow. Waterway Fire Science Project is a citizen science initiative in NSW which will ...
A bushfire recovery program led by Landcare Australia, delivered in partnership with OzFish Unlimited and Native Fish Australia (Victoria), will support initiatives to restore habitat for ten national priority threatened aquatic species in Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales.
OzFish Unlimited volunteers, farmers and community members have worked together during the summer of 2020 in an emergency fish rescue operation in one of our nation’s most significant river systems – the Lower Darling.
Volunteers from OzFish Unlimited have teamed up with students from the Sunraysia Institute of TAFE to save critically endangered native fish that were in desperate need to be relocated.
OzFish and Landcare Australia have joined forces to help threatened species which suffered from the Black Summer fires thanks to the Landcare Australia Aquatic Wildlife Habitat Bushfire Program.
Joining forces OzFish has partnered with Landcare Australia to restore this important fish habitat, home to the endangered honey blue-eye and pygmy perch. The OzFish Noosa Chapter teamed up with Noosa Landcare to tackle the problem head-on and the two groups of volunteers spent hours removing ...
Wetland wonders OzFish and Landcare Australia has given a leg up for a little-known endangered fish in Northern NSW, the Oxleyan Pygmy Perch (OPP), which had its home impacted by the catastrophic 2019/2020 Black Summer bushfires in Northern New South Wales.
Fishos helping fish The Cudgewa Creek is home to many of our favorite freshwater native fish including the iconic Murray cod, the beautiful mountain galaxias and of course, the endangered trout cod which are also fondly known as bluenose cod. Local fishers have been absolutely central to ...
OzFish Eurobodalla Chapter with Eurobodalla Landcare and Eurobodalla Shire Council (ESC) have been collaborating to recover areas of Clayton’s Spiny Crayfish habitat degraded by bushfire in the Tuross River catchment. Together, the groups have identified a property on the river and have ...
The OzFish Eurobodalla Chapter are working with the landholder to install approximately 2.5 kilometres of fencing, which will retain approximately 70 hectares of river-front banks from livestock trampling and grazing, giving native vegetation a chance to recover from the fires. Where required, ...
It was the summer of 2019/2020 when Australians watched on in horror witnessing images and videos of dead fish dominated the news and flooded social media. Heartbroken anglers fought back tears as they described what they were witnessing in drought-affected rivers.
It was also a turning point for Australia’s largest fishing conservation movement, OzFish Unlimited, as volunteers in the hundreds mobilised to save native fish from suffocating in many areas across the Murray-Darling Basin. These efforts created a period of collaboration between fishers, farmers, landholders, communities, government and the organisation’s major partner, BCF. Seeing these fish perish would not happen under their watch.
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At OzFish we are incredibly proud of the rescue and emergency recovery efforts undertaken by so many of our OzFish volunteers, our fish need more help to recover now more than ever. And you can help.