The Geelong and Bellarine group recently attended two events in conjunction with the Victorian Fisheries Authority at Albert Park Lake and Pakenham Lake. The Multicultural day held at Albert Park Lake was a great success with almost one hundred children and adults in attendance. The participant’s background ranged from Africa and as well as a…
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With plenty of squid to catch in Port Phillip Bay, targeting fresh calamari is a popular sport around Melbourne or Victoria. This style of fishing suits all ages and abilities and can occur off your local pier, jetty or in a boat using a standard 2-4 kg rod and a healthy variety of squid jigs.…
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Fishcare Victoria are excited to welcome our newest staff member Elysia Gustafson!! Elysia is a Marine Biologist with a Master’s in teaching who began her career in the Aquaculture Industry in Port Fairy before moving to Port Douglas to work on the Great Barrier Reef where she conducted surveys in association with the Great Barrier…
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Fishcare Victoria has an exciting new position available as the Port Phillip & Westernport & All Ability Facilitator!! This position will recruit and support volunteers within the Port Phillip region to deliver responsible fishing education programs. This involves coordination activities with stakeholders and project managing the new ‘All Ability – Fishing is for everyone’ program.…
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Fishcare EG has supported the Twin Rivers Bream Classic for over ten years with the Fishcare volunteers conducting Catch and Release stations on the individual rivers to give sustainable anglers competing in the competition, the opportunity to bring their fish to the stations to be weighed, the weight recorded and then released back into the…
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Fishcare Victoria is very proud and excited to announce that we are the recipients of 2 Large 2019 RFL grants to deliver an All Ability Fishing program AND build on our success of the Creating Sustainable Anglers project. Please see VFA media release here All Ability Clinics – Fishing is for Everyone! Fishcare Victoria has…
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In the South West we have been working closely with the Glenelg-Hopkins CMA recently undertaking some Fishy Fun sessions along the bank of the Merri River at Platypus Park in Warrnambool. We provided some educational fishing games and the CMA provided the water bugs which put together was a great mix of activities and had participants…
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On June 25th, the Fishcare EG volunteers boarded the Stormbird at the Lakes Entrance Post Office Jetty for a boat trip to Metung and back.This day is a training day for the volunteers with 2 guest speakers to talk about the different subjects relating to the important ecosystems of the Gippsland Lakes. The conditions were…
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Fishcare Geelong/Bellarine has had a great month conducting school clinics with Whyndam Central College in Werribee and Saint Francis Xavier College in Corio. This marks the start of our school programs for the year as the group continues to gain momentum in the region. We have also under taken volunteer training to get our volunteers…
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Within the Port Phillip Bay region, we have been working on further strengthening is our Partnership with The Portsea Camp. The Portsea Camp is a not-for-profit organisation who run five week-long school holiday camps for disadvantaged and rurally isolated children aged between 9 and 16 years, these are our Making A Difference (MAD) camps. As…
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