jimbojames 285 Posted November 22, 2017 Report Share Posted November 22, 2017 What an exciting time , the OzFish Onk Habitat group have been making great headway in the restoration of habitat in the Onkaparinga river . We have finished stage one which was to deploy Limestone blocks into the Onk to place some substrate for small critters to attach to and hide around . These living critters such as oysters , barnacles and small crustaceans will in turn encourage bigger critters to congregate in the area . The placement of these blocks also should help the tides that flow over them to scour more of the sediment from the bottom of the river in an aid to make a deeper hole in the area for even bigger critters to hide and congregate . As you can see in the scans the placement of the blocks are near a natural limestone outcropping for them to compliment and as there was 2 deployments , the first deployment has already encouraged some sediment displacement right after the outcropping . A big and massive thanks to all the volunteers that have been taking time out from there lives to come to meetings and the organising make this achievement . We have some more projects in the pipeline and if you care to be a volunteer , we are always grateful for more helping hands . plankton, Squid Inc., AuusieDave and 7 others 10 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bjorn2fish 4,612 Posted November 22, 2017 Report Share Posted November 22, 2017 Thanks for posting this up Jimbo Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KIDNEY SLAPPER 1,272 Posted November 23, 2017 Report Share Posted November 23, 2017 just the info i was after. cheers jimbo. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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