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Recreational fishers right along the Queensland coastline are fortunate to have access to a wide variety of fishing infrastructure such as jetties and platforms to wet a line. Many of these [...]

5 February 2020 Tourism operators in the Whitsundays have begun collecting data in a citizen science project to keep track of the water quality in their area. The Whitsunday Water Quality [...]

29 January 2020 Mackay Tourism has joined the Mackay Whitsunday Isaac Healthy Rivers to Reef Partnership as the 30th partner in improving waterway health. The Partnership provide funding to [...]

– Ricci Churchill, DBCT Have you ever seen the “Dugong Sanctuary” signs on the Bruce Highway near Clairview and wondered what they mean? In 1997, the Great Barrier Reef Ministerial Council [...]

Congratulations to our partners North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation and James Cook University (JCU), who won the Outstanding Collaboration for National Benefit category at the 2019 BHERT [...]

Mackay Whitsunday Isaac Healthy Rivers to Reef Partnership founding member, Mackay Regional Council is working hard to deliver fishways that help maintain fish stocks in the region’s waterways. [...]

Details of how individuals and groups are taking action in response to this year’s Mackay-Whitsunday-Isaac Healthy Rivers to Reef Report Card will be made public at an upcoming event. A launch is [...]

HERE IS A SAMPLE OF THE PARTNERSHIP’S AUGUST 2019 E-NEWS In this edition More than 50 people attended the official launch of the 2018 waterway health scores Elusive water mouse caught on [...]

TAKE A LOOK AT THE PARTNERSHIP’S APRIL 2019 E-NEWS. In this edition: Waterway health features in local event! Preparing for launch! The 2018 report card New look scores now live Changing of [...]

Latest results snapshot Below is a brief summary of some of the key findings from the latest waterway health scores, released Thursday 12 December 2019. Note: Results reflect the period from July [...]