OzCast
OzCast is the official podcast platform of conservation charity, OzFish Unlimited. OzCast features leading scientists, fish ecologists, and industry experts revealing findings, explaining research, and communicating important issues affecting the health of Australian waterways and their surrounding environments. By drawing on their years of experience both in the field and the lab, OzCast provides a look below the surface into the historical, cultural and scientific world that surrounds our rivers, creeks, oceans and lakes.
Episodes
Join us on this episode of OzCast as we look beneath the surface at the often-overlooked realm of small-bodied threatened fish species in Australian waterways with Dr. Nick Whiterod, a seasoned marine ecologist with over twenty years of dedicated research and conservation efforts.
Dr. Nick Whiterod holds a PhD from Charles Sturt University, assessing the bioenergetic implications of large impoundments on Murray cod. His career has...
In this episode of OzCast
What's behind the horrifying phenomenon of fish kills in Australian inland waterways? Join us as we unearth the many fish kills that have taken place recently with Prof. Lee Baumgartner – the leading scientists who is involved in the government enquiry investigating the events. Throughout the episode, Lee sheds light on the...
On this episode of OzCast, Dr Martin Mallen-Cooper re-joins the show to look below the surfa...
In this episode of OzCast, Jason Tanner dives be...
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In this episode of OzCast, we look below the surface of the flow of ...
On this episode of OzCast, Dr Dominic Mcafee looks beneath the surface at Australia’s lost shellfi...
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Prominent historian Anna Clark guides us through Australia's fishing history, delving into its pre-European settlement origins and highlighting the pivotal events and encounters that have shaped the present-day sport. With meticulous research dating back to the 1700s, Anna provides a vivid depiction of the past fishing landscape. She dispels the misconception that James Cook was the first foreign fisherman in Australia, revealing t...
Native fish in Australia have been fighting tooth and fin for survival and its time we paid attention. O
In this episode, we chat with Dr Martin Mallen-Cooper about the problems facing the Murray Darling Basin, in particular, the effect of weir pools on flow in the river and the knock-on effect this has on our native fish.
Martin takes us through a step-by-step summary of the demise of the Murray Darling Basin. He identifies five major practices that have incrementally killed fish and aquatic...
This OzCast episode takes a look below the surface of our litter problem in Australia and chats to internationally recognised veterinary scientist Dr Matt Landos.
Contaminants, like plastic and other chemicals derived from human activities, enter waterways and impact ecosystems. The episode uncovers more to our litter problem than what meets the eye, as the conversation examines the lifecyc...
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