With 2 rounds of funding worth $376,500 now complete in this region, the project has achieved matching in-kind and cash contributions to the value of $611,521, actively involved 814 people, trained an additional 374 people to think more about seafood industry environmental requirements, planted 67,322 tube stock, opened up 8.3 km of habitat to fish and concentrated work on the management of 8.3 hectares of significant ecologically endangered species (ie saltmarsh, commercially important habitat that 75% of commercial fish species visit during a life span).
Round 3 2008.
With a reduced professional fishing industry now working in Sydney but huge population and emphasis on marine waterway health, Tide to Table still has a place in focusing on ensuring seafood sector participation continues with the urban population in changing general community behaviours, supporting on ground initiatives and working with coastal care groups and recreational fishes on on-ground coastal and marine projects.
$30,000 is being targeted at continuing past round on-ground support at:
Kitties Creek ( Friends of Lane Cove NP)
Beauty Point Georges River Combined Councils Groups (GRCCC)
A recreational fishing line clean up around the entrance to the Cooks River with the National Parks Association (NPA), Ecodivers, Rockdale Council and the River Keeper program.
Seagrass monitoring with the Central Coast Environment network (CEN).
Habitat signage and display at the Sydney Fish Market.
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” SOURCE: Charles Darwin 1809 - 1882
