Friends of Shark Bay | Environmental conservation organisation

Friends of Shark Bay

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24.01.2022 Heading north to Shark Bay for some winter sand sea and sun? Some great prizes to be one just by sharing your photos of your fun in the sun!

24.01.2022 Did you know we have recorded sightings of crocodiles in Shark Bay! None quite as big as this beauty though!! https://www.abc.net.au//katherine-rangers-catch-h/12611968

23.01.2022 Are you a Shark Bay (Gathaagudu) researcher or do have an interest in the science priorities for this unique World Heritage area? By listing these 13 categories... in the order you think is important to maintaining a healthy marine ecosystem in Shark Bay, you could receive a $50 gift card! Start the survey here: http://uwa.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4YGcVvNLGQ0ITNr See more

20.01.2022 On the subject of the North West Shark plague.. My family has lived and fished in Shark bay for over one hundred years. In my own life I have worked commercially on wetline snapper boats, prawn trawlers, crab boats, seine net fishing boats, octopus boats and mackerel boats. I presently own five recreational vessels and fish and hunt to feed my family. I spearfish, netfish, potfish for crays and crabs as well as wetline for demersals and trawl for Pelagics. I also provide ...Continue reading

20.01.2022 Want to eat breakfast with me this Saturday morning?

20.01.2022 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

19.01.2022 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

19.01.2022 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

18.01.2022 Heroes take all shapes and sizes.. but these were definitely some of mine growing up. Jackaroos and bushmen. Lovers and fighters. Drinkers and singers. Fisherma...n and Poets. If there is one memory that sticks though it’s the laughter! The hardest workers around town (unless it was fishing weather ). My dad Chris Winship and his mates, Uncle Tom Pepper, Old Man, Littlely and Arthur Pep Pepper out mustering sheep and fixing windmills my Grandfather built on Dirk Hartog Island. Golden Bay days! If your family have any golden old photos of the Bays early days we would love to see them posted on the page. It sure is wonderful medicine for the days when we miss that crazy laughter!!

18.01.2022 Well well well.. Thanks for your support West Australia!!

18.01.2022 Are you interested in our indigenous nations sixty the years of knowledge of native plants and their food and medicinal uses? University of Melbourne has just created this AMAZING free resource! https://nespurban.edu.au//2020/08/Indigenous-plant-use.pdf

16.01.2022 Prizes to be won if you love Shark Bay!

16.01.2022 A quick guide to everything Shark Bay with Uber groover Angie Ayers for the @TripleMP radio network! #HippoHeaven... #WanderOutYonder #SharkBayWorldHeritageArea #WhereTheLocalsAreFriendly #WhereTheDesertMeetsTheSea #SharkBaySharkSanctuary See more

14.01.2022 Are you interested in over SEVENTY YEARS of scientific studies in Shark Bay on both land and sea as well as the research happening RIGHT NOW? Then join the brand new Shark Bay Research page below!

14.01.2022 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/

14.01.2022 $, 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

14.01.2022 Gday from the Bay everyone. This group is a brand new group and was created by WAMSI as part of the incredible job they did collating over SEVENTY YEARS of worl...d leading scientific scrutiny of the fragile World Heritage Area that so many of us call home and ALL of us love. As such it would be a HUGE help if you would go through your friends lists and invite ANY members with scientific qualifications or links to conservation or relevant government agencies etc to join up. (It’s totally ok if you are on this page and aren’t a scientist by the way!!) This essential research is here to be shared and with your help we will share it far and wide! The aim is to not only provide ONE centralised and readily accessible place where we can ALL read about ALREADY peer reviewed and published research relevant to Shark Bay but ALSO to see the latest research essentially as it hits the presses!! Super exciting.. Especially as so much of this research is combining our homes thirty thousand years of Malgana knowledge in its field studies! Our fragile home needs this research more than ever right now and if you are reading this then that means it needs you too!! How can YOU help? Simple! Share some of the posts already on this page to your own community and science based pages and most importantly help WAMSI spread the Big Bay knowledge by inviting some of your friends to join the fight to protect our home today!!

14.01.2022 Wildlife Wednesday! Check out this Echidna looking for lunch. Where is your favourite place to lunch in Shark Bay? www.sharkbayvisit.com.au @tonbags

13.01.2022 Your only chance to have your say...

13.01.2022 shark bay scenic quad bike tours .i am looking for a male . female . PART TIME helper . to help do tours. MUST BE ABEL TO DEAL WITH THE PUBLIC and have a good... attitude towards people training will be supplied to the right NO BACKBACKERS WILL BE CONCIDERD. THIS POSITION IS AVAILABLE ONLY TO A SHARK BAY RESIDENT.. if you are the person to be abel to do this job ring LAURIE.0418900377 YOU MUST HAVE A CURENT MDL. See more

12.01.2022 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

11.01.2022 Prizes to be won for anyone who loves Shark Bay!!

11.01.2022 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)

10.01.2022 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

10.01.2022 Plastic is slowly choking our waterways..

09.01.2022 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...

08.01.2022 Amaaaazing News!

08.01.2022 In case anyone wants to share this in Esperance so in 2021 we don’t have to spend another fifty million of our taxes trying to solve a problem that science says doesn’t exist.. #SharkBayWorldHeritageArea #WhereTheLocalsAreFriendly... #WhereTheDesertMeetsTheSea #SharkBaySharkSanctuary #MonkeyMiaDolphins #DirkHartogIslandNationalPark #WesternAustralia #AustraliasWildestWest #WanderOutYonder See more

05.01.2022 Updated now 94, 548 have signed add your name here https://aph.gov.au/petition_list?id=EN1938 #MurdochRoyalCommission #MurdochMafia

04.01.2022 Edible Geraldton Wax tree?? We never knew!! https://www.abc.net.au//geraldton-wax-flower-aus/12744000

04.01.2022 It’s coming twitchers!! https://aussiebirdcount.org.au/

02.01.2022 A SMALL BOAT GUIDE TO CRUISING SHARK BAY" DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND WE HAVE NOW PRINTED OUR THIRD EDITION IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS 2021 No-one know who t...he first sailor was to sail into the crystal clear waters of Shark Bay.. We all know however just how many hundreds and indeed thousands have come since. From early explorers, whalers, guano miners, shark hunters, pearlers and military men to the recreational holiday makers of today, Shark Bay has been a Mecca indeed for the life aquatic.. In ALL of that time, NO-ONE has ever tried to write a book telling the many well kept secrets of Shark Bay and how to best experience her many wonders. Until now.. Terry Hinchliffe was the school Principal in Denham in the nineteen seventies and he and his wife Christine have spent forty years exploring her tranquil waters. Leon Deschamps is born and raised amongst the local fishing families of the Bay and his own families nautical history in Shark Bay goes back a century.. Together they have written Shark Bays first boating guide book that tells you where to go, what sort of boat you should choose, what sort of food you should pack, what sort of fish you can catch and how to catch them. It also provides an overall glimpse of the ancient and modern human and environmental history of the area. WE HAVE NOW PRINTED OUR THIRD EDITION IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS Get yours at the Discovery Centre in Denham or the Monkey Mia Supermarket or order your paper or DISCOUNT Ebook version direct online HERE and start you small boat adventures TODAY http://publications.hinchy.org/Online_Sales.html

01.01.2022 If you have ever wanted to explore the greatest state in Australia then now is the time! Its time we holidayed in and looked after our own backyard and touri...sm economies. Stay safe out there folks and get back to the basics Aussies love so much. A swag under the stars where the desert meets the sea.. https://www.news.com.au///242f13048bc9cc25cbb6330a00e7463d #WanderOutYonder #SharkBayWorldHeritageArea #WhereTheLocalsAreFriendly #WhereTheDesertMeetsTheSea #SharkBaySharkSanctuary #DirkHartogIslandNationalPark #TamalaStationCamping #BigLagoon #AustraliasCoralCoast #RACMonkeyMiaResort #TheDolphinsAreJustTheBeginning