Aquatic habitat protection and rehabilitation

Aquatic habitat protection and fish conservation – South Coast and Greater Murray

Provision of fish habitat protection and enhancement in Murray, Lower Darling and Murrumbidgee catchments and South East NSW using two dedicated fisheries conservation managers. Increases awareness of fish habitat amongst all stakeholders and land use managers, to ensure management outcomes that improve fish habitat and promote fisher and community engagement in fish habitat management, protection and rehabilitation.

DPI

Flagship Habitat Action

The Flagship Habitat Action program will continue to engage and facilitate key stakeholders in the development and delivery of large-scale strategic coastal fish habitat rehabilitation activities; restoring highly productive, resilient fisheries.

Community flagship grants administered by DPI

Habitat Action Program – “Making more Fish Naturally”

Engagement and support of recreational anglers in fish habitat actions and provision of devolved Habitat Action Grants to enhance fish habitat in NSW and support healthy, resilient recreational fisheries.

Community flagship grants administered by DPI

Look after your Tackle – fishers tackling litter in local waterways

OzFish and Tangaroa Blue have joined forces to tackle fishing and waterway litter at its source, combining their expertise and resources to raise awareness, collect valuable data, change behaviours and take action that prevents and removes litter across NSW’s waterways.

Tangaroa Blue Foundation

Tackle Bin Project (formerly known as Fishing Line Debris Recovery Program)

Purchase additional debris bins to extend project to other identified ‘hotspots’ for wildlife injury/deaths and update and re-print ‘Tide Times’ brochure promotional material.

Tweed Valley Wildlife Carers Inc. (TVWC)

Eumerella Shore... It’s time to Restore and enjoy Fish galore!

The Badja Reserve is a popular recreation area at the junction of two rivers. This junction is very much the focal point of all activities and now the bank needs repair.

Numeralla Landcare Inc

Tuckean Swamp Project Stage 3 – Design and cost/benefit of rehabilitation options

This stage of the Tuckean Swamp project will complete identified information gaps including a cost/benefit analysis, design and costing of necessary infrastructure changes, and a toolkit of options to incentivise land use change.

OzFish Unlimited

City of Canada Bay Tackle Bin Project

This project will install 4 tackle bins in popular fishing locations in the Canada Bay Council area to encourage anglers to protect the marine environment from fishing debris and pollution.

Individual

Fish Salvage in Murray Irrigation Channels During Winter Shutdown

Traditional owners, subject matter experts and volunteers will rescue and relocate native fish to suitable refuge areas during Murray Irrigation Limited winter shutdown channel maintenance period.

Edwards Wakool Angling Association (EWAA) Inc.

Mann River Rehabilitation 2022

This project will remove lantana and other noxious weeds to provide areas for use by recreational fishers and clean the riparian areas of Coombadjha Creek and the confluence with the Mann River to improve access to the river and campgrounds for fishers.

Coombadjha

Rec Fisher Habitat Capacity: Building the fish habitat capacity, knowledgebase, delivery capability and leadership qualities of NSW recreational fishers

OzFish now has 22 chapters of fishers across NSW willing and interested in taking action to improve the habitat and health of their local waterways. This program will pilot for one year, provision of the support and resourcing sought after by the recreational fishers in these chapters to take action and be leaders in aquatic habitat restoration and improve fishing outcomes in their local waterways, across NSW.

OzFish Unlimited

Revegetation of Bellingen River Estuary, Yellow Rock Road

This project will focus on pollution removal and weed removal from 2 property boundaries that front the Bellingen River estuary system. Once weed species are moved, they will be replaced with endemic plant species to allow the riverbank to repair itself between flood events.

Latsyrc Project Management

Fishers for Fish Habitat 2

This project will continue and enhance the current Fishers for Fish Habitat program providing information on fish and fish habitat to NSW recreational fishers and the broader community through a yearly Fishers for Fish Habitat forum, 4 issues of Newstreams per annum and the maintenance of the Fish Habitat Network website.

OzFish Unlimited

Engaging recreational fishers to recycle opera house yabby traps to restore fish habitat

A project to reduce the impacts of illegal yabby traps by engaging recreational fishers to hand in their traps, have them recycled and turned into useful products, with proceeds going to fish habitat restoration.

TierraMar Ltd

NSW Cold Water Pollution Mitigation Strategy – Phase 1 Development

Finalisation of Phase 1 of the NSW Cold Water Pollution Mitigation Strategy will deliver a coordinated plan to proactively improve water quality and temperatures at high priority dams across NSW to benefit native fish.  Will also involve development of a demonstration Cold Water Pollution case study at a suitable dam site.

DPI