OzFish are now in the fourth year of the partnership with Landcare. There will be more riparian zones improved, community workshops held and rubbish removed. All of these activities will help to improve the habitat in these locations for years to come.
OzFish are now in the third year of the partnership with Landcare that will see even more habitat restoration work achieved. There will be more riparian zones improved, through weeding and the planting of trees, which will result in shelter and food for fish.
In year 2 of the partnership, Landcarers and OzFishers came together at 15 locations across NSW. They have been responsible for creating 60 new waterway homes for fish, planting more than 14 kilometres of native trees and shrubs, and removing invasive weeds and rubbish from over 30 kilometres of riverbanks.
In the first year of the Landcare Partnership, OzFish and Landcare have achieved close to one million dollars of habitat restoration work. There’s now 14,300 more trees along NSW riverbanks that will provide shade and stable water temperatures, insect fall and eventually snags for fish.
Your project could include; fish hotels, re-snagging, riparian vegetation, vegetative filter strips, litter clean ups, seagrass re-seeding, fish habitat mapping, removing in-stream barriers, pump-screening, stock fencing and troughs, saltmarsh restoration, oyster shell recycling and more.
For inland areas:
Braeden Lampard | 0432 656 835
braedenlampard@ozfish.org.au
For coastal areas:
Ryan Lungu | 0432 012 547
ryanlungu@ozfish.org.au
Cassie Price | 0402 408 791
cassieprice@ozfish.org.au
If you’d like to get a project started in your area and you’re not a Landcare or OzFish group – give Cassie Price a call on 0402 408 791 and ask her about the OzFish Landcare partnership.