As part of the Summer by the Sea program, we teamed up with Coastcare Victoria and Connie’s Collectables to provide an interactive display at the Dandenong Market. Our stall was enabling people who frequent the Dandenong Market, to experience the value of Port Phillip Bay without travelling to the beach or “by the sea”. The…
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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 club’s delegate to the Ballarat and District Angling Association…
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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 themselves. On ‘Gone Fishing Day’ Fishcare South West teamed up with Allansford and District…
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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 catching fish. The winner of the day was a 30cm…
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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 and attacked their homes. These gentlemen varied…
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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 took part, St Brendan’s Primary, Lakes Entrance, St Marys Primary,…
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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 majoring in Marine Biology, which he studied at Deakin University in Warrnambool. This degree…
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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 debris has on marine organisms, the environment and themselves. We aim…
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The weekend of Friday 20th – Sunday 22nd, Fishcare representatives from the Melbourne and South West region attended the 4th Sharing the Love 4 Conference in Somers. There were around 40-50 participants mainly from various marine focused volunteer community groups across Victoria from Warrnambool in the West to Beware Reef in the east. Also in…
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Wildlife in our marine and aquatic environments are impacted through dangers such as entanglement caused by discarded fishing line and other materials. Seal the Loop aims to prevent this material entering the environment at all, by installing brightly coloured bins in popular fishing spots for anglers to dispose their waste in. Made from recycled plastics, they also contain…
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