OzFish Unlimited - Adelaide Chapter

We’re excited to announce a brand new tangle bin has been installed under Jervois Bridge next to Lartelare Reserve in the Inner Harbour!

If you’re fishing in the area, you now have a convenient spot to dispose of old fishing line and tackle, keeping our waterways cleaner and safer for marine life. 🌊

Make sure to only dispose of fishing litter - bait bags, hooks, line, sinkers etc. We would prefer to keep the general waste for the general waste bins!

This project is proudly supported by a City of Port Adelaide-Enfield grant 🐠

OzFish is getting geared up for Clean Up Australia Day to tackle litter in our local waterways and fishing spots. This year, we are teaming up with The Semaphore Largs Dune Group to support a litter clean-up along the coast.

We'll be meeting up at Largs Bay Jetty before cleaning up litter from along Largs Bay, an important beach fishing site for fishes like bream, blue swimmer crabs & whiting. 🐟🎣

Date: Monday 2 March
Time: 9:00am – 11am ACDT

Register here:

Semaphore Largs Dunes Group and OzFish - Adelaide Chapter Clean Up Morniing Help support our Clean Up Australia Day event!

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

Want to get hands-on with fish habitat restoration?

We're looking for a Casual Project Officer to support our projects in the Adelaide region.

This role is flexible, dynamic and all about action on the ground – from seagrass and shellfish reef restoration, to working alongside OzFishers at community events.

If you’re keen to get outdoors, work with fishers, and play a part in restoring local waterways, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now 👉 ozfish.org.au/careers

Want to help out with rebuilding South Australia's lost native oyster reefs? 🦪🐟

Next Tuesday (19th August) we are hosting a working bee to recycle oyster shell and fill our Robust Oyster Baskets ready for reef-building in the Port River this summer.

Due to the large amount of interest, we are opening more spots to support participation by our OzFisher community!

Make sure to register here 👉
https://ozfish.org.au/event/rob-building-port-river-sa-august-2025

A truck load of oyster shell for the Port River! 🦪🐟

These shells will soon be recycled and prepared for rebuilding lost native oyster reefs.

Restoring oyster reefs will also provide a welcome boost in fish habitat and water filtration. A huge thank you to Westpoint Shellfish for the shell donation and DWE Services for getting it to site safely.

Want to get involved? Gets hand-on at one of our upcoming Robust Oyster Basket sessions! Head to the OzFish website to sign up to one of our upcoming events (Sept-Oct) 👉 https://ozfish.org.au/events/category/adelaide-chapter/

You can learn more about our Port River shellfish reef work 👉 https://ozfish.org.au/projects/port-river-robs-south-australia/