Friends of Shark Bay | Environmental conservation organisation

Friends of Shark Bay

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20.01.2022 It’s coming twitchers!! https://aussiebirdcount.org.au/

18.01.2022 Wildlife Wednesday! Check out this Echidna looking for lunch. Where is your favourite place to lunch in Shark Bay? www.sharkbayvisit.com.au @tonbags

18.01.2022 Free Activity tomorrow morning at Monkey Mia! Join staff on a bird walk to try and find as many of the birds in the bay as you can! You will be given a bird id ...sheet that was kindly donated by the Duke of Edinburgh participants from Willetton Senior High School. Bring your hat, water bottle and waking shoes! See more

16.01.2022 Ever seen this many boats for this long at our ramps? How long can our fish stocks sustain the increase? Brave call from our Shark Bay Shire but THIS is what tr...ue leadership is. Saying the unpopular things because they know it needs to be done. Bravo Shire of Shark Bay! Bravo indeed! See more

16.01.2022 Edible Geraldton Wax tree?? We never knew!! https://www.abc.net.au//geraldton-wax-flower-aus/12744000

13.01.2022 OzFish is kicking off their 2020 SEEDS FOR SNAPPER Seagrass Weekend with a free community dive day on Friday, Nov 20. We need certified OW divers to collect sea...grass fruit between 8am - 11am to help restore the lost seagrass meadows in Cockburn Sound. BYO dive gear and we will provide collection nets and eskies to transport the fruit back to the Sound Boat Club and grab some yummy free BBQ lunch after. See more

13.01.2022 Want to catch one metre plus coral trout? The science is in, peer reviewed and published. About time we started creating more sanctuary zones in our Shark Bay World Heritage Marine Park! #WanderOutYonder #SharkBayWorldHeritageArea... #WhereTheLocalsAreFriendly #WhereTheDesertMeetsTheSea #SharkBaySharkSanctuary See more

12.01.2022 LIMIT YOUR CATCH! Don’t catch your limit!! (Please comment on the original post below.. our community is fighting to save our reefs from a massive covid based tourism surge of recreational fishers that look like they will CONSERVATIVELY remove over one MILLION kilos of fish this year from our World Heritage listed marine Park home)

11.01.2022 Due to the increase in West Aussie fishing families holidaying in Shark Bay due to National Covid restrictions the region is seeing unprecedented levels of fish... being caught. The local community and Shire Council has requested the State government help them protect their fishing stocks by halving Bag Limits for twelve months. If Fisheries WA agreed to this move in Shark Bay would YOU want to...

09.01.2022 HALVE YOUR CATCH-SAVE OUR FAMILIES-SAVE OUR BAY Due to Covid travel restrictions. fishing families holidaying in Shark Bay have tripled and they aren...t going home. For many of them it is their first visit to our home and they are loving it. We are loving having them and we WANT them to come back but their presence and actions are also killing our home. We don’t think they are bad people, we just don’t think they understand how fragile our home is. We need our governments help. It is time our laws were reviewed. Creating sanctuaries and halving our fishing catch is actually NOT about protecting fish..thats just a bonus! It is in reality about protecting our FAMILIES and ensuring those tourist families will continue to come back for generations to come. It is about saving our commercial fishing, recreational fishing and tourism industries from extinction by protecting our threatened sea grass meadows and fish stocks. What most tourists don’t know is that we lost almost half of our sea grass meadows in 2011 due to a massive and unprecedented heat wave. Thirty three councils across Australia have now declared a climate emergency due to similar events. Our Bay is suffering. We lost five THOUSAND years of sea grass growth, forever, in one week. An area the size of the ACT. It is these meadows that support our $2.4 Billion dollar recreational fishing industry and keep our economically critical $40 million dollar commercial fisheries operational. The sea grass also keeps our $100 MILLION dollar Monkey Mia Dolphins alive.. THAT is what we are fighting to save. Half of our precious meadows are gone. Its getting hotter. Fishing tourist numbers are at record highs and increasing. We are on the brink. Its time to stand up and fight for our home. There is no time left. We have to do everything we can. Healthy oceans need FiSH. Healthy fisheries need seagrass. Healthy communities need people. PLEASE HALVE YOUR CATCH IN SHARK BAY MARINE PARK EDIT** The bag limits are NOT going to be halved. The current proposal is to have the bag limits remain the same, but have the possession limit changed to 10kg rather than 20kg. So your daily bag limit won’t be affected. If 4 licensed fishers go out on a boat for the day, they can still catch 20 Demersal fish and 12 pelagic species (mackies and tuna etc) 40 crabs and 120 whiting. There is no plans to change that. And THATs the catch just for one day. #Halveyourcatch #SaveOurSeagrass #Fishforthefuture #WorldHeritageMarinePark #BluePlanetGreenSeas #Wherethelocalsarefriendly

03.01.2022 $, Don't forget to get your Expression of Interest form in for our On-Country Business Pitch Competition You ...could be in the chance to win $1,500 towards your business costs as well as a RADIO MAMA promotional package valued up to $1,000! Entries close THIS FRIDAY - so get in quick and enter here: https://forms.gle/uH23WTsJmEDTbxnd6 #OnCountryImpact #OnCountryEnterprise

02.01.2022 Ever wanted to live and work in paradise? FOUR jobs all with accomodation provided available at Monkey Mia Dolphin Resort! https://www.backpackerjobboard.com.au//rac-monkey-/37058/

01.01.2022 Updated now 94, 548 have signed add your name here https://aph.gov.au/petition_list?id=EN1938 #MurdochRoyalCommission #MurdochMafia