The seagrass season has wrapped for South Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula region, and despite the fruit missing the memo this year, plenty of progress has been made in bringing science and community together. After a bumper season in 2022/23, volunteers were at the ready over the
OzFish is rallying the Adelaide and Fleurieu Peninsula community around the 2023 Seeds For Snapper seagrass restoration initiative, inviting volunteers to start collecting now.
The fruit arriving on beaches marks the official start of the restoration program.
OzFish Unlimited is putting the call-out for volunteers in and around Adelaide to support seagrass restoration. OzFish is working with Green Adelaide to get volunteers ready for the annual Seeds for Snapper event in December. Volunteers are
There is renewed optimism for the future of seagrass restoration in South Australia due to the humble hessian bag, which has been at the heart of the Seeds for Snapper project now entering its fourth year. Associate Professor Jason Tanner,…
Even though oysters don’t have ears, they are still wired for sound. University of Adelaide marine ecologist Dr Dominic Mcafee has been using novel methods as part of his attempts to restore Australia’s lost shellfish reefs and one of his…
Around 200 Murray crayfish have been released into the river as part of a landmark trial to reintroduce the iconic Australian species back into the South Australian River Murray. Once common in the waters of the South Australia River Murray, the number of
Research underpins and informs everything we do – it is part of our OzFish DNA. The pioneering shellfish restoration project in the Port River in Adelaide is no exception. This week, students from the University of Adelaide’s School of Biological…
The restoration of South Australia’s vitally important seagrass meadows is a step closer after the incredible efforts of our recreational fishers and local communities. Across both of our ‘Seeds for Snapper’ projects in South Australia, along Adelaide’s metropolitan coastline and on the Fleurieu Peninsula, more than 700 local rec fishers and people got involved. Together, they dedicated more than 3,380 volunteer hours to harvest and deploy more than 18,700 seagrass seeds in over 630 biodegradable sandbags.
Across three working bees, 28 rec fisher volunteers constructed 70 Robust Oyster Buckets (ROBs) and filled them with more than 1.1 tonnes of recycled oyster shell. They then helped to deploy them at strategic locations in the Port River estuary, dedicating more than 188 hours so far to delivering the project.
With the help of recreational fishers and local community members, OzFish has empowered Adelaideans to replant a record 15, 000 seagrass seeds along its beaches as their annual seeds for snapper seagrass restoration project.
Seagrass meadows along South Australia’s coastline will again be the focus of community-driven restoration as OzFish gears up for its second year of
A hugely successful seagrass restoration project along Adelaide’s coastal waters has shown habitat loss can be reversed through community-driven restoration and the results have the potential to turn the tide for these under threat ecosystems.
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