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Goulburn: Oral History of Hayley Purbrick
Hayley Purbrick is a fifth generation member of the Purbrick Family who owns the Tahbilk Winery. She grew up on nearby Lake Nagambie and has interacted with the river since she was a child. She is involved in the…
Tags: Birds--Identification, Droughts, Fishes--Identification, Floods, Goulburn, Landholder, Reptiles--Identification, Revegetation, Water allocations, Weirs, Wetlands
Position: 174 (67 views)
Goulburn: Oral History of Jenny Shields
Born in 1953, Jenny Shields is a local fisher from Seymour in Victoria and member of the Seymour Anglers club who also enjoys fishing with her three children and her husband, Wayne.
In…
Tags: Bait fishing, Dredging, Fish kills, Fishes--Identification, Floods, Goulburn, Introduced species, Recreational fisher, Weirs
Position: 154 (72 views)
Goulburn: Oral History of Jody Liversidge
Jody Liversidge is a recreational fisher living in Shepparton in northern Victoria. She grew up in a family that enjoyed fishing and camping, and they frequently traveled to many different places. She currently fishes…
Tags: Camping, Fishes--Identification, Goulburn, Litter (Trash), Lure fishing, Recreational fisher, Reptiles--Identification, Trawls and trawling, Water pollution
Position: 140 (75 views)
Goulburn: Oral History of John Koehn, John Douglas, and Roy Patterson
John Koehn is a research officer for the Arthur Rylah Institute, Melbourne, and studies freshwater fish ecology. John Douglas works for Victorian Fisheries, and Roy Patterson is a…
Tags: Billabongs, Ecological sustainability, Environmental flows, Fish habitat improvement, Fishes--Identification, Fishing industry, Flood plains, Geomorphology, Goulburn, Indigenous peoples, Introduced species, Irrigation, Physical characteristics (Animals), Recreational fisher, Riparian areas, Scientist, Taungurung people, Wetlands
Position: 108 (89 views)
Goulburn: Oral History of Ken Gilmore
Born in 1922, Ken’s family have lived on the ‘Hughendon’ property at Thornton since the 1860s. The Goulburn River runs on one side of the property and the Rubicon River runs through the middle.
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Tags: Goulburn, Landholder
Position: 146 (74 views)
Goulburn: Oral History of Kevin Smith and Fern Hames
Tags: Droughts, Ecological sustainability, Ecotourism, Environmental flows, Fishes--Identification, Floods, Goulburn, Landholder, Riparian areas
Position: 38 (140 views)
Goulburn: Oral History of Mick Hall
Mick Hall is a fly fisher living in Alexandra in Victoria. He learned how to fish when he was four years of age. After a break, he took up fishing again around the age of 14 and has been fishing ever since.
Mick…
Tags: Droughts, Fish stocking, Fisheries, Fishes--Identification, Floods, Fly fishing, Goulburn, Recreational fisher, Water quality
Position: 25 (170 views)
Goulburn: Oral History of Raymond Donald and John McKenzie
Born in 1926, Raymond Donald was a technician at the Snobs Creek Hatchery for thirty-five years. During fieldwork trips, which could last for several weeks, not only did Raymond set…
Tags: Billabongs, Camping, Diet, Fieldwork, Fish hatcheries, Fisheries, Fishes--Breeding, Fishes--Diseases, Fishes--Identification, Fishes--Migration, Fishing nets, Floods, Goulburn, Physical characteristics (Animals), Scientific methods, Scientific observation, Scientist
Position: 181 (65 views)
Goulburn: Oral History of Rolf Weber
Rolf talks about: wetland vegetation; role of plants in providing protection for fish and their eggs; Myriophyllum…
Tags: Fish habitat improvement, Fisheries, Fishes--Identification, Goulburn, Plants--Identification, Restoration ecology, Scientific methods, Scientist, Wetlands
Position: 146 (74 views)
Goulburn: Oral History of Ron Bain
Ron Bain was born in 1918 on a farm in Seymour. After share-farming for six years, he bought his own farm in Timboon. He returned to Seymour and purchased a shop with his family and after 12 months had packed up to…
Position: 150 (73 views)