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- Tags: Floods
Culgoa - Balonne: Images from interview with Peter and Margaret Petersen
Position: 13 (159 views)
Ovens: Oral History of Tom Cameron
Born in 1937, Tom grew up sustained by the Ovens River. He talks about fishing crowds at Post Office Lane, a popular spot to catch Redfin after the spring floods. He goes on to describe diverse fishing…
Tags: Environmental conservation, Fish populations, Fisheries--Equipment and supplies, Fishing nets, Floods, Ovens, Recreational fisher, River engineering, Water allocations
Position: 219 (29 views)
Ovens: Oral History of Lyall Hogg and Ollie Evans
Lyall grew up in Merbien, and learnt to fish with his father. His uncle was a professional fisherman who built boats and sent his catch from Bourke to Sydney. He talks about irrigation;…
Tags: Bait fishing, Droughts, Fish kills, Fisheries--Equipment and supplies, Fishing industry, Floods, Irrigation, Ovens, Pesticides, Recreational fisher, Stream flow, Tobacco industry, Tournament fishing
Position: 195 (34 views)
Coorong and Lower Lakes: Oral History of Gary Hera-Singh
Gary is a commercial fisher in the Lower Lakes and Coorong Fishery for 28 years; a third generation fisher on his father’s side, and a fifth generation fisher on his mother’s side (lineage to the…
Tags: Aboriginal culture, Acid sulfate soils, Coorong, Estuarine ecology, Fisheries, Fishes--Identification, Fishing regulations, Floods, Introduced species, Local history, Marine ecosystems, Ngarrindjeri people, Professional fisher, Salinisation, Sustainable fisheries, Trade routes, Traditional ecological knowledge, Water--Law and legislation
Position: 25 (97 views)
Coorong and Lower Lakes: Oral History of Henry Jones
Born in 1941, Henry is a sixth generation commercial fisher, and also ran a yabby restaurant for thirty years. He talks about learning to fish from his father, a commercial fisherman at Renmark, in the…
Tags: Aboriginal spirituality, Aquifers--Australia, Barrages, Coorong, Cultural flows, Dams--Australia, Ecological sustainability, Fishes--Breeding, Fishing industry, Fishing regulations, Floods, Irrigation, Land custodianship, Livestock, Professional fisher, Restoration ecology, Riparian areas, River engineering, Salinisation, Siltation, Sustainable fisheries, Traditional ecological knowledge, Water quality
Position: 151 (41 views)
Coorong and Lower Lakes: Oral History of Brian Schulz
Tags: Bait fishing, Blackwater, Coorong, Environmental flows, Fishes--Breeding, Fishes--Identification, Fishing nets, Floods, Lure fishing, Recreational fisher, Riparian areas, Salinisation, Tournament fishing, Traditional ecological knowledge, Water quality, Water--Law and legislation
Position: 175 (37 views)
Coorong and Lower Lakes: Oral History of Terry Sim and John Yelland
Tags: Aboriginal culture, Acid sulfate soils, Barrages, Birds--Identification, Coorong, Dredging, Fish surveys, Fishes--Identification, Floods, Introduced species, Landholder, Local history, Naturalists, Ngarrindjeri people, Plants--Identification, Recreational fisher, Salinisation, Trade routes, Traditional ecological knowledge, Weeds
Position: 74 (61 views)
Coorong and Lower Lakes: Oral History of Sally Grundy and Dean Tugwell
Dean, born 1929, is from Victor Harbour, and lived through the 1956 flood. Married since 1960, Dean and Sally live at Mundoo Island near the mouth of the Murray River. Dean recalls…
Tags: Aboriginal culture, Coorong, Droughts, Fishes--Identification, Fishes--Migration, Fishing nets, Floods, Landholder, Marine ecosystems, Salinisation
Position: 84 (57 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: 195 (34 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: 29 (90 views)