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Your Fishing Licence Fees at Work 2003-04
Every year the Recreational Fishing Licence (RFL) Trust Account allocates the fees you pay for your fishing licence to projects that will directly improve recreational fishing in Victoria. In 2003-04 nearly $1 million was allocated to 40 Recreational Fishing Grant Program projects outlined below.
In 2003-04 nearly $1 million was allocated to 40 projects to improve recreational fishing in Victoria.
| Type of water | Number of projects | RFL revenue funding |
| Inland | 16 | $456,077 |
| Estuarine | 8 | $318,685 |
| Marine | 10 | $90,505 |
| Statewide/ all waters | 6 | $85,750 |
| Total | 40 | $951,017 |
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Other RFL Trust Account Expenditure
During 2003-04 RFL revenue also funded:
- The establishment of Recreational Fishing-Only areas at Lake Tyers and Mallacoota Inlet through the cancellation of Commercial Fishery Access Licences (CFALs);
- 10 regionally-based Fisheries Officers;
- The administration of the RFL and the Recreational Fishing Grant Program;
- The Victorian Recreational Fishing peak body (VRFish);
- RFL sales commissions;
- RFL- and RFGP-related community information; and
- The stocking of over 2,000 Murray cod yearlings and over 35,000 golden perch fingerlings into five of the inland waters.
Recreational Fishing Grant Program Projects 2003-04
A report is tabled in Parliament in October each year concerning all RFL Trust Account revenue and expenditure. A report is available for revenue spent in 2003/2004 and for previous years.
The following is a summary of projects funded from 2003-04 RFL revenue. These projects are listed under the DPI Region from which the project application emanated.
Fish stocking costs are GST-exclusive, rounded to the nearest dollar.
Port Phillip Region ($5,082)
$5,082 to remove weeds, plant native vegetation and erect signage at Lake Modewarre, Mt. Moriac.
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Gippsland Region ($279,610)
$30,733 to formalise ad-hoc access tracks into one formed track to improve access to the Lower Tambo River, from Princes Highway to the river mouth.
$60,000 (and a commitment to disburse $55,000 in 2004/05) to replace the boardwalk and construct four fishing platforms on the South Bank of the Tarwin River, Tarwin Lower.
$11,500 to remove exotic vegetation, erect fencing, and install signage at Primrose Park, Boolara, Morwell River Catchment.
$21,375 to remove exotic vegetation, erect fencing, and install signage at Apex Park, Boolara, Morwell River Catchment.
$100,000 to improve fish habitat through the installation of large woody debris at ten sites along the Tambo River, Mitchell River, Snowy River, Nicholson River, North Arm, Frenchman's Creek, and Lakes Entrance (3 year project)
$33,002 (and a commitment to disburse $26,840 in 2004/05) to evaluate the changes to dusky flathead limits at Mallacoota Inlet.
$23,000 (and a commitment to disburse $14,000 in 2004/05) for a study to obtain detailed movement patterns of Australian bass in the Snowy River.
Northern Region ($299,900)
$140,000 to enhance recreational fishing opportunities by establishing angler access points to the Goulburn river and undertake works along the Goulburn river that protect and enhance stream habitats.
$150 to erect direction signage to the jetty at Gunbower Creek, Gunbower Recreation Reserve.
$55,000 to improve angler access, riparian vegetation and fish habitat (by the introduction of large woody debris, artificial cover-structures and boulders to increase adult trout habitat and the stream's carrying capacity) along the Rubicon River, Goulburn Valley, Thornton.
$34,250 for a study to benchmark the Lake Hume fishery by obtaining information on angler use of the water, recreational fish catch and effort, fish population structure in the water, details on management preferences, and develop a fish stocking plan (3 years)
$38,500 (and a commitment to disburse $20,500 in 2004/05) to conduct a creel survey to determine the effects of recent changes to the stocking regime at Eildon Pondage
$32,000 for a study to determine if rehabilitated fish habitats are inhabited by fish species of interest to recreational fishers (by comparing the relative abundance, size distribution and species composition of the fish community at rehabilitated sites with comparable reference sites at each location).
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South West Region ($186,782)
$30,000 to provide an all-weather access road to improve access to the river bank on the Wimmera River upstream of Peppertree Road to River Heights Road.
$6,000 to improve angler access, revegetate, and erect fencing and signage at Taylors Lake, Horsham.
$2,750 to replace the existing fish barrier at the Aringa Reservoir’s outflow in Port
Fairy.
$31,882 to erect a floating fishing platform suitable for persons of all abilities, and a fish cleaning facility at the south end of Lake Bullen Merri, Camperdown.
$11,550 to construct a raised boardwalk through low-lying marshland vegetation to provide all-weather angler access, and construct a fish cleaning table at Fitzroy River, Tyrendarra.
$1,200 to construct a fish cleaning table at Gellibrand River, Colac.
$28,400 to revegetate 120m of river bank, construct two fishing platforms, and install large woody debris in Barham River, Apollo Bay (2 year project)
$75,000 for a study into the effectiveness of the Lake Bullen Merri aerator in Camperdown.
Statewide ($93,893)
$9,410 to produce 300,000 copies of the Victorian Recreational Fishing Code of Practice.
$3,000 to educate children in correct fishing practices and procedures by conducting Flathead Fred fishing shows in Victoria.
$2,000 to conduct six educative recreational fishing clinics for children.
$1,595 to educate recreational fishers about marine safety, the correct procedure for tag and release of fish, correct type and usage of equipment, fish sizes and catch limits.
$1,500 to conduct fly fishing tuition and a fly fishing trip for recreational fishers of all ages.
$2,500 to deliver a recreational fishing program in schools that teaches children to become environmental minded fishers.
$10,000 to deliver the ‘Get Hooked…It’s Fun to Fish’ recreational fishing school program.
$2,000 to conduct an education course on basic fly fishing.
$2,200 to conduct information and practical fishing demonstration sessions to promote and increase participation in recreational fishing.
$1,920 to produce a weekly thirty minute radio program to promote recreational fishing with a focus on the rights and responsibilities of recreational fishers, protecting the environment and rivers, and sustaining and improving fish levels in rivers.
$1,468 to deliver a junior angler development program which promotes recreational fishing through fun activities and workshops.
$56,300 to resume the angler diary program.
Fish stocking ($85,750)
$23,400 (and a commitment to disburse $25,700 in 2004/05, and $27,900 in 2005/06) to stock 25,000 brown trout, in addition to Fisheries Victoria's intended stocking over the next three years into Lake Hume.
$24,000 (and a commitment to disburse $24,000 in 2004/05) to stock 600 2kg brown trout and 400 3kg rainbow trout over two years into Eildon Pondage.
$5,500 to stock 1,000 dart-tagged yearling Murray Cod into Broken Creek, Nathalia.
$1,450 to stock 1,000 yearling rainbow trout into Emerald Park Lake.
$1,400 to stock 600 rainbow trout in addition to fish stocked via Fisheries Victoria's Small Waters stocking program into Yarrambat Park Lake.
$30,000 to stock 50,000+ Australian Bass Fingerlings into Lake Glenmaggie, Blue Rock dam, Macalister River and Hazelwood Pondage.
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