Balcombe Estuary Rehabilitation Group - Liz Barraclough

Anth is off having a baby (it's a miracle!!), so Bron, Dave and Peter are in the studio as the weather gets colder and wetter. Congratulations to Coast Care, who turn 10 today and are celebrating down at Queenscliff (Berocca, Paracetamol and eggs work for us!!).

Check out yesterdays Age for great stories on the Blue Whales of our Southern waters and Freediving.

The group won one of the Coast Care/Coast Action awards - This is a Friends Group of volunteers, starting in 1996, that covers a huge area down near Mt Martha. Coast Action/CoastCare helped with the setup, and it has grown to over 200 members. They try and involve school and scout groups, but the majority of active members are older members of the community.

Working events focus on clearing to prepare for either sowing or allowing regrowth, and working with Rotary on the boardwalk. The effort is supported by the local traders.

There is a regular event every Tuesday morning, and the third Sunday of every month. Contact Mary Stemp on (03) 5977 1089 if you want to take part.

Tonight at 8:30 on National Geographic Channel is a show called Lost Subs - Disasters at Sea, which looks in depth at 4 major submarine accidents - what happened to them, the families involved and rescuers.

Tuesday 4th on ABC (8:00pm) is a show called Future Shack, the story of a crayfisherman's quest to build the shack of the future overlooking his fishing haunts.

The cray theme continues on at 12:35 am of Thursday 6th May (very late Wed night) with High Tide at Noon on the ABC - where passions run high amongst lobster fishermen in Nova Scotia

Thursday May 6th on the National Geographic Channel at 7:30 is Raising the USS Monitor (a sister ship to the Cerbrus on the bottom of Port Phillip Bay). The Monitor was a key ship in the US Civil War, and this program is about its attempted salvage.

Saturday May 8th on ABC at 6:30 you can see Dolphins: Deep Thinkers? - giving them IQ tests to see if we share a level of intelligence.

Wednesday 19 May on the ABC at 9:30 is Titanic's Ghosts. This is a great docco tracing where a few victims were on the Titanic, how they tried to escape, and traces their living relatives.

Sunday 23rd on National Geographic Channel (8:30pm) is Submarines: Secret and Spies - a look at how submarine exploration technology has been used in the cold war.

Finally, Tuesday 25th on Animal Planet at 8:00pm its Being There: Ocean Blue - a docco about the what happens in the huge amounts of unexplored ocean that is more than a mile deep - the vast majority of the ocean.

Almost 2000 fisherman took part in a telephone survey to help understand how to manage the fisheries. There are half a million fishers in the state, and they are typically male, between the age of 20 and 45 and only fish about 6 days a week. Only 7% of the female population fish.

9.5 million fish are caught in a year - with Flathead being the big catch - over 3 million of them. This is a high effort low yield process, but the sheer numbers make it a greater impact that commercial fisheries.

Over the last 10 years, anglers are more aware of the need to release unused fish, especially the undersized individuals, and their survival.

For more information, head to the website

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