Wallaga Lake National Park
Wallaga Lake National Park is a former national park in New South Wales, 296 km southwest of Sydney. It now forms part of a greater Gulaga National Park.
In May 2006, ownership to this former National Park, plus the rest of the Gulaga National Park, was restored to the area's original owners, in whom legal tenure was vested as part of an agreement signed by then New South Wales Environment Minister Bob Debus and representatives for the Yuin people.
In early 2020, men from the Bermagui Wallaga Lake Djiringanj men's group were able to resume their traditional practice of fish with nets on Wallaga Lake for the first time in decades. After obtaining a special cultural fishing permit, that allows them to fish once a week using a specially built boat and handmade traditional net, young men from the community will target species like flathead, bream, and mullet, and hand over their catch to local elders. They see it as a way of helping people who live below the poverty line, and suffer from poor nutrition, particularly lack of iodine, and diseases such as heart disease and diabetes brought on partly by poor nutrition.
