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Fieldwork]]>
Camping]]>
Diet]]>
Images were sourced by the Talking Fish project team from Raymond on the day of his oral history interview.]]>
Goulburn River, Vic [stream]]]>
Bourkes Beach Number One, Vic [beach]]]>
Buffalo River, Vic [stream]]]>
Corryong Creek, Vic [stream]]]>
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Lake Meering, Vic [lake]]]>
Snobs Creek, Vic [stream]]]>
Doyles Dam]]>
Lake Meran, Vic [lake]]]>
Bourkes Beach Number Three, Vic [beach]]]>
Lure fishing]]>
Riparian areas]]>
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Stream flow]]>
Water levels]]>
Floods]]>
Droughts]]>
Springs (Groundwater)]]>
Stream restoration]]>
Riparian restoration]]>
Fishing--Australia]]>
Erosion]]>
Revegetation]]>
Charlee and Faye talk about Hollands Creek; growing up along the creek; memories of swimming and playing in the river; the cycle of flooding and the dry; and Aerial maps. Faye mentions learning to fish with her uncles; and both Charlee and Faye talk about horse riding; picnics; water levels and flow rates; changes in the river structure due to floods; walking on the creek bed; a large flood; the 2004, 2005 drought; their efforts to warn Benalla (Victoria) of the approaching flood; natural springs; sand deposits; erosion; their involvement with Holland's Creek Demonstration Reach; re-snagging work; collaboration with Goulburn Broken Catchment Authority; riffles; field days; re-vegetation; historical popularity of fishing ; and water rats.
Mention of "McGregor's Bridge"; "Crowe's swimming pool" - a local waterhole.
Mention of Koala, Platypus, Water rats, Frogs, Echidna, Wombat, Deer, Snakes, Blackberry ]]>
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Cummeragunja Mission (N.S.W.)]]>
Environmental conservation]]>
Water--Symbolic aspects]]>
Homeless camps]]>
Homeless]]>
Backpackers]]>
Camping]]>
Colonisation]]>
Connection to Country]]>
Mental illness]]>
Traditional ecological knowledge]]>
Aboriginal history]]>
Water quality]]>
Aboriginal scarred trees]]>
Daryl Sloan has been a resident of the Shepparton area for 35 years since his teenage years. He has worked in the social welfare industry for around 15 years and his work sees him regularly visiting the Goulburn River making contact with the tens of dozens of homeless people that call its banks 'home'.
Daryl covers the issues that Shepparton and surrounds face of flooding; river turbidity; increasing housing developments and the fall in housing affordability; an increasing homeless population; the history of the area with special regard to the 1939 Cummeragunja Mission walk-off and its significance as a form of protest and self-determination; the arrival of backpacking fruit pickers; and the degrading health of the river and the lack of care people have for it.
Mentioned: Platypus. Koala. Kangaroo. Wallaby. Flying Fox. Possum. Squirrel Gliders. Earthworms. Finches. Azure Kingfisher. Wood duck/maned goose.
Trees: Grey box. Red River Gum trees. Patterson’s Curse (blue flower). Dock (weed). Blackberry.
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Plants--Identification]]>
Aboriginal fish traps]]>
Winter solstice]]>
Summer solstice]]>
Moieties]]>
Totems]]>
Kangaroo hunting]]>
Aboriginal calendar]]>
Wurundjeri (Australian people)]]>
Aboriginal history]]>
Woiwurrung / Wurundjeri / Woiwurung people]]>
David Chalmers is associated with the Goulburn River Men's Group Inc. and is interviewed on the site of a Kangaroo farm. Throughout the interview, David identifies the native plants and vegetation present and the history of the area with special regard to the Aboriginal people who are the traditional owners of the area.
David tours the site in the interview, describing the numerous historical Aboriginal artifacts such as tool-making areas, elaborate Kangaroo traps, calendars, caves, and what he believes to have occurred in this time period.
David also speaks about his interaction with the Department of Aboriginal Affairs in trying to obtain an assessment of the Aboriginal site and how he sees this site as a significant piece of history.
Plants mentioned: wild oats, senecio, ajuga, kangaroo grass, dianella, isotoma, cypress pine, grevillea, cumbungi, kurrajong, iron bark.
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Fishes--Identification]]>
Weirs]]>
Camping]]>
Fishing--Australia]]>
Lure fishing]]>
Trawls and trawling]]>
Taxidermy]]>
Tournament fishing]]>
Floods]]>
Droughts]]>
Donnie Richter, who was born in 1948 and lives near the Goulburn River, has been fishing since he was a child. Fishing for him initially began as a social activity with his friends where they would camp, drink and fish along the riverbank. Fishing practices in those times, Donnie admits, were unconcerned about sustainability - this is in complete opposition to the sustainable practices that Donnie employs today.
Nowadays Donnie is equipped with his boat and fishing gear that he uses in the various competitions that he has entered, including the Barra Nationals, the Barra Classsic, the Barra Bonanza, the Barra Bash, and the exclusive Mulwala Classic. Donnie also speaks about lure fishing and lures, his taxidermy works, and the various plants and wildlife along the river.
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River Red Gum trees, turtles, platypuses, willows, bream, bardi grubs.]]>
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Fishes--Identification]]>
Bait fishing]]>
Lure fishing]]>
Introduced fishes]]>
Reptiles--Identification]]>
Birds--Identification]]>
Fish stocking]]>
Riparian areas]]>
Both born in the early 1950s, Gary and Kaye have fished all their lives. Gary grew up on the Wakool River and Kaye moved to Victoria in the 1970s. They are members of the Seymour Angling Club, a social club that travels once a month around all of the Victorian rivers, from Eildon to Echuca.
Gary and Kaye talk about: local fishing techniques and equipment; types of bait such as garden worms, flat tail worm, scrub worm, yabby, shrimp, Bardi grub; types of lures; fish species and their behaviours; the prevalence of European Carp in the Murray, Wakool and Broken rivers; trees, snags, and fish habitat; mammals; reptiles; birds; human activities that degrade the rivers and river banks; restocking rivers.
Other fish mentioned: 'silver bream' (unspecified).]]>
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Water temperature]]>
Fishing--Australia]]>
Lure fishing]]>
River engineering]]>
Fishes--Migration]]>
Irrigation]]>
Water quality]]>
Stream restoration]]>
Water resources]]>
Geoff was a construction contractor but has been working with water management for twenty years. He talks about his understanding of the cross over from recreational fishing to management of water, and about Lake Makoan being decommmisioned 2009.
Geoff grew up on the Broken River. He shares his earliest memories of learning to fish with his father and sister; camping on the Murray River; his desire to pass on a sense of ownership of the rivers to his children and grandchildren; what to look for in the river when fishing for trout and Macquarie Perch; fly fishing; which parts of a snag different fish prefer; lake fishing compared to river fishing; fish behaviour depending on temperature and time of day; and what he likes about fishing. He discusses the benefits of fresh bait; where to collect scrub worms; catching yabbies; attracting shrimp with orange peel; decline of Catfish; changes to the Broken Rivers structure (de-snagging programs, the construction of the Nillahcootie 1967, the floods of 1974); fish migration and fishways; changes in fishing technology; the opening cermemony of Lake Nillahcootie; the changes in water quality due to the introduction of Carp; the Broken River Irrigators and their advocacy that a dam be build on the Broken River; the dams effect on the local ecology; Lake Mokoan water turbidity; and how the Broken River earnt its name. He goes on to discuss community engagement and the future of the River.
Mention of "Barragunda" a place at the head of the Broken River (Vic), "Green Swamp" or "Green Wetlands" near Winton Wetlands (VIC).
Mention of scrub worms, mud eyes, black crickets, grasshoppers, bardie grubs, shrimp, yabbies
Mention of Sedges, ribbon weed]]>
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