IT’S TIME TO FOCUS ON OUR WATERWAYS
In the face of recent challenges for fish and before COVID-19 arrived, Australia has been battling droughts, fires and floods and there is no doubt it has impacted water quality, fish habitat and our fish. Not to mention this follows over a century of destruction through “progress”.
To overcome these challenges there is now a group of recreational fishers who, like you, love fishing but have been quietly going about fixing our waterways to create better fishing opportunities for the future.
The nation’s only recreational fish conservation movement and the outcomes it is achieving is a remarkable story. Established in 2014, OzFish Unlimited and its members are kicking some serious goals. The idea behind OzFish was if they looked after the fish and their habitat, the fishing would look after itself. OzFish based its model on the phenomenal success of Trout Unlimited in the US which harnessed the collective power and community spirit of recreational fishers to protect and restore fish habitat.
The organisation has an embedded passion for fishing coupled with big aspirations to ensure fishing will be thriving for generations in Australia.
“It was clear from the outset that Australia needed to provide an avenue
