All posts tagged "Marine"

  • Restoring and enhancing our seabeds

    Photo: Parks Australia Facebook VRFish is excited to be part of a new ocean discovery project led by Offshore Biotechnologies and Parks Australia focused on colourful deepwater sponges. It’s called

  • Offshore Renewables and Coexistence with Fisheries

    Feedback open until the 24 February.

  • Gippsland Declared Australia’s First Offshore Wind Farm Zone

    Gippsland has been declared as Australia’s first offshore windfarm zone by the Australian Government. The declared area in Bass Strait covers around 15,000 square kilometres offshore and will run from

  • Proposed Cape Winds Offshore Wind Farm Project

    VRFish have recently received an introduction to a proposed Cape Winds Offshore Wind Farm project in the Discovery Bay area by Skyborn Renewables. The project is in the early stages

  • Call for Offshore Citizen Scientists to collect Striped Trumpeter frames and data

    We are embarking on a new pilot study to increase the knowledge of striped trumpeter (Latris lineata) in Victorian waters thanks to a successful Recreational License Fees (RFL) funded project. The

  • Draft Marine and Coastal Policy

    The Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) has prepared a draft Marine and Coastal Policy is undertaking public consultation until 15 August 2019. VRFish will be reviewing the

  • Live Underwater Web-cam Launched

    You can now spy in on our marine inhabitants in Port Phillip Bay without getting wet with the launch of Reef Cam, Australia’s first ever rocky-reef live-feed. The Nature Conservancy

  • Bringing a desert back to life

    By Bob Pearce, VRFish member and Albert Park Yachting and Angling Club.  “Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?” (Joni Mitchell

  • Catching tropical fish in Victoria?

    By Yvette Barry, science writer for REDMAP Australia’s seas are warming and fish are moving their homes further south than usual. Last summer Paul Sorensen spotted a tropical-looking fish lingering

  • Angling Club Stars in Shellfish Reef Video

    Albert Park Yachting and Angling Club member and VRFish representative Bob Pearce, explains his dream to restore Port Phillip Bay’s lost living shellfish reefs in this new short video. This flagship marine habitat restoration project is now in stage 2 and project

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