by sarah | December 4, 2018 | Fishcare News | 0 Comments

Fishcare Ballarat and Central Highlands President John McNeight received the Healthy Active Living Award as a pat of the Senior Citizens Award for the city of Ballarat. John has been a member of the Ballan Angler’s Club since 2003 and has held the position as the...

by sarah | December 3, 2018 | Fishcare News | 0 Comments

With an improvement in the weather comes an increase in Fishcare activities. And things are warming up.  Recently we had volunteers travel to Cobden lake to hold a fishing session with a local indigenous community. The fishing was slow but participants enjoyed...

by sarah | December 3, 2018 | Fishcare News | 0 Comments

The last few months have been busy for our groups around Port Phillip Bay with lots of events happening all around the bay! We have had our regular Portsea Camp fishing sessions at the start around October. With another successful fishing session with multiple kids...

by sarah | December 3, 2018 | Fishcare News | 0 Comments

On the 29th of August, Fishcare’s Port Phillip Facilitator went down to st Helen’s Pier to run a fishing clinic for men who had immigrated within the last 18 months to Australia who had one thing in common – they had come from Syria and ISIS had destroyed...

by sarah | December 3, 2018 | Fishcare News | 0 Comments

For the first time, Fishcare EG offered to the local primary schools, a new Winter Fishing program which consisted of an incursion educational workshop to be delivered in the classroom to all grade levels over the colder months of this year. Four local Primary Schools...

by sarah | December 3, 2018 | Fishcare News | 0 Comments

Fishcare Victoria is very excited to be able to welcome past Fishcare Volunteer and Deakin Marine Biology student Mitchell McMaster to the Fishcare Victoria staff team. Mitch is our new Geelong & Bellarine Facilitator and has a background in Environmental Science...

by admin | August 14, 2018 | Fishcare News | 0 Comments

From 1 July 2019, the Victorian State Government will ban the use of opera house nets in all waters, both public and private. This will simplify yabby fishing regulations, encourage the use of more wildlife friendly yabby fishing gear and reduce deaths of platypus,...

by admin | August 3, 2018 | Fishcare News | 0 Comments

Litter warriors, ready for action. We are five Deakin students who are currently enrolled in a Bachelor of Science and are extremely passionate about the health of our environment. We seek to inform and educate children in grades 3-6 about the implications litter and...