{"id":7359,"date":"2022-05-11T23:26:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T23:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/terrain.org.au\/yellow-bellied-glider-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T04:51:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T04:51:03","slug":"world-fish-migration-day-at-kukujum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terrain.org.au\/world-fish-migration-day-at-kukujum\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish Migration Education Event"},"content":{"rendered":"[mk_page_section bg_image=”https:\/\/terrain.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/mangrove-wetlands-1675×683-1.jpg” bg_position=”center center” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” bg_stretch=”true” enable_3d=”true” min_height=”500″ js_vertical_centered=”true” padding_top=”” padding_bottom=”” section_id=”donate” el_class=”donate-1″ sidebar=”sidebar-1″][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”70px”][mk_fancy_title font_family=”none” align=”center”]OPEN INVITATION TO LEARN MORE ABOUT FISH[\/mk_fancy_title][mk_padding_divider size=”67″][\/vc_column][\/mk_page_section][mk_page_section section_id=”great-1″ sidebar=”sidebar-1″][vc_column width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1563789112768{padding-right: 36px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}” el_class=”great_header_left”][mk_padding_divider size=”100″ visibility=”hidden-nb”][mk_padding_divider size=”15″ visibility=”visible-sm”][mk_padding_divider visibility=”visible-tl”][mk_fancy_title size=”28″ letter_spacing=”4″ margin_bottom=”0″ font_family=”none” el_class=”terrain-title-2″]TOUR OF WETLANDS AT KUKUJUM[\/mk_fancy_title][mk_padding_divider size=”60″ visibility=”hidden-nb”][mk_padding_divider size=”20″ visibility=”visible-nb”][vc_column_text el_class=”sub-head” css=”.vc_custom_1664340521777{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]1 September 2022[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”5″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1664340466345{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]A tour of mangrove wetlands at Kukujum, or Ellie Point, is one of the activities planned for an event on 8 September at Cairns Airport.<\/p>\n

Recreational fishers and lovers of coastal wetlands can visit a restricted access area in Cairns, learn about a new project to help fish move more freely through the mangrove habitat, and share their own knowledge of fish in the region.<\/p>\n

Hosted by Cairns OzFish Unlimited Chapter, in partnership with Dawul Wuru\u2019s Yirrganydji Land and Sea Rangers, Cairns Airport, Terrain NRM, Wet Tropics Waterways and James Cook University researchers, the event is aims to celebrate fish life and raising awareness about fish migratory habits.<\/p>\n

OzFish\u2019s Geoff Collins says for healthy fish stocks, we need well-connected free-flowing waterways.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Wet Tropics has some of the highest fish diversity in the country, but that diversity and the recreational fishing opportunities it affords is dependent on healthy and well-connected fish habitat.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur native fish need to move between wetlands and through waterways to access different habitats for different parts of their life cycle. Barriers, which can take many different forms, prevent them from finding food, from breeding and from escaping predators or degraded waterways.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dams, weirs and vertical drops caused by road crossings and culverts can stop fish in their tracks, as can high velocity water through pipes. Desktop studies have shown there are thousands of potential barriers in different Wet Tropics catchments.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1563789122720{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 34px !important;}” el_class=”great_header_right”][mk_padding_divider size=”206″ visibility=”hidden-sm”][mk_padding_divider size=”50″ visibility=”hidden-sm”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1664340497153{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\"OzFish<\/p>\n

Projects around the region are focused on fixing the most problematic, including a fish barrier at Kukujum (Ellie Point), where water will return to conditions that existed before the area was developed.<\/p>\n

\u201cFixing the barrier will open up 1.5 kilometres of mangrove waterway and will improve water flow to 2km2<\/sup> of mangrove wetland habitat\u2019 Dr Collins said.\u00a0 \u201cThe improved water flow will bring water quality and biodiversity benefits and that\u2019s great news for a whole range of fish and other marine life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event will include short interactive talks about fish barriers with environmental restoration practitioners, followed by a tour of the remediation site in mangrove wetlands at Kukujum.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are looking forward to showing people an example of a high priority fish barrier and taking them through the work that will go into removing it,\u201d said Dr Collins.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would also like to hear from people who have local knowledge of other fish barriers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event will be held on Cairns Airport land on Thursday 8 September (4pm-6.30pm). Registration is essential:<\/p>\n

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