Community Involvement
Bushcare Volunteers Visit Sydney's Primary Industry
Fifteen Tide to Table Bushcare volunteers spent a day on Sydney’s waterways investigating the seafood industry and its links to fish habitat. The day was designed specifically to allow Bushcare to see how their actions in the upper catchment affect seafood production and the lively hood of primary producers in the waters further down the catchment.
Starting early for a tour at the Sydney Fish Market (left) the group then headed to Botany Bay to join two NSW Maritime vessels, carefully navigating the shallow mud channels, to visit Sydney’s last remaining oyster farm in Woolooware Bay. The oyster sheds made a fantastic backdrop for a tour by industry legend Bob Drake whose operation continues to supply quality Sydney Rock and Pacific oysters to the market, despite many obstacles. The group then headed via Towra Point, an internationally significant wetland and Botany Bay National Park and its important fish habitat areas. The afternoon was spent talking with Ron Firkin (right) aboard his vessel ‘Babs’ discussing the NSW lobster industry.
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