OzFish Unlimited - Adelaide Chapter

Last week the Adelaide Chapter made a start on the Port River Oyster Reef build, and the juvenile bream are already moving in! 🐟🦪

Huge thanks to everyone who helped make it happen and a great start to restoring this oyster reef 🙌

Native oysters, crabs, and more fish are all expected to move in overtime once this new reef is in, boosting fish habitat and water filtration 🪱🦀🐟🦪

Want to join the next build? Become part of the action by registering to our next events over the coming days 💙
https://ozfish.org.au/events/category/adelaide-chapter/

Hitting the beach this holiday season? Look out for seagrass fruits in need of rescue 🌱🪣

Bright green seagrass fruits wash up on beaches around Christmas and New Years. Collect them in a bucket of seawater and drop them off at a seagrass collection eskies at:

➡️ Cruising Yatcht Club of SA, Gate 1
➡️ Semaphore Surf Life Saving Club
➡️ Brighton & Seacliff Yatcht Club
➡️ Aldinga Surf Life Saving Club

Fruits are then matured in seagrass tanks at North Haven, with each fruit producing a single seedling to be replanted as new fish habitat 🐟🌱

Learn more here: https://ozfish.org.au/projects/seeds-for-snapper-south-australia/

Spending the summer fishing around Port Adelaide?

You may have already seen our Tangle Bins around the area, but as summer is fast approaching, here's how to use them properly:

🎣 Remove any fishing line offcuts from reels, hooks, and sinkers

🗑️ Place line, hooks, and small tackle straight into the Tangle Bin

🚫 Do NOT put general rubbish, bait, food scraps, or drink containers in them

Summer = more lines in the water = more responsibility.

If you fish, crab, or drop a line off a jetty — use the bins, tell your mates, and if you see loose line or hooks, pick it up and bin it.

Our Tangle Bins are situated in:

Outer Harbour Lookout
Yitpi Yartapuultiku
Largs Jetty
Semaphore Jetty

Let’s keep Port Adelaide fishable, swimmable, and wildlife-friendly 🌊💙

🌞 Coming This Summer: Musseling Up for Onkaparinga Black Bream! 🎣

We’re excited to be launching a new shellfish project to support the Onkaparinga River’s black bream by boosting one of their favourite foods — the black pygmy mussel! These little mussels improve water quality as filter-feeders and help grow healthier, stronger bream 🦪🐟

This summer, OzFish volunteers will install biodegradable mussel mats at three sites in the estuary to help young mussels and other fish prey attach, grow and boost local fish populations.

This project is funded by the City of Onkaparinga and BCF - Boating, Camping, Fishing