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Your Fishing Licence Fees at Work 2002-03
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 2002-03 over $1.72 million was allocated to 53 Recreational Fishing Grant Program projects outlined below.
In 2002-03 over $1.72 million was allocated to 53 projects to improve recreational fishing in Victoria.
| Type of water | Number of projects | RFL revenue funding |
| Inland | 32 | $1,082,818 |
| Estuarine | 7 | $345,600 |
| Marine | 8 | $150,881 |
| Statewide/ all waters | 6 | $147,408 |
| Total | 53 | $1,726,707 |
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Other RFL Trust Account Expenditure
During 2002/03 RFL revenue also funded:
- 10 regionally based Fisheries Officers;
- The final repayment to State Treasury for the buy-back of 108 commercial fishing licences in Victoria’s bays and inlets;
- The voluntary buy-out of the remaining commercial fishing licences from 28 inland waters;
- The Victorian Recreational Fishing peak body (VRFish);
- The administration of the RFL and the Recreational Fishing Grant Program;
- RFL sales commissions; and
- RFL- and RFGP-related community information.
Recreational Fishing Grant Program Projects 2002-03
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 2002/2003 and for previous years.
The following is a summary of projects funded from 2002-03 RFL revenue. These projects are listed under the DPI Region from which the project application emanated.
Port Phillip Region ($257,837)
$18,735 to construct and erect a fish screen to prevent fish escapes, and construct a floating fishing pontoon at Seagull Paddock Lake, Geelong
$34,452 to construct a fishing platform on the Maribyrnong River, Riverside Park at Aberfeldie, Essendon
$2,418 to install two fish cleaning tables and signage on Corinella Foreshore Reserve, Corinella jetty
$10,000 to remove and renew two existing fishing platforms on Maribyrnong River, Canning Reserve, Avondale Heights
$65,000 to provide a multi-use recreational fishing facility immediately down stream of Minah Street boat ramp, Lake Connewarre State Game Reserve, Barwon Heads
$3,000 to install a fish cleaning table and signage on Tooradin Foreshore Reserve
$19,600 to construct four recreational fishing embankments along the north bank of Lake Treganowan, Emerald Lake Park
$300 to stock golden perch into Hanging Rock Lake
$1,250 to stock rainbow trout into Lake Treganown, Emerald Lake Park
$2,500 to develop a wetland area and fishing activities as part of a Farm School Program at the Woori Yallock
$3,772 for facilitation of the YMCA’s Fishing Education for primary and secondary school students
$2,000 to conduct a free education and information course at the Greensborough & District Angling Club on the skills and pleasures of recreational fishing
$2,500 to conduct a ‘Kids Come & Try Fishing Day’ in January 2004, Frankston Pier & Foreshore
$51,510 to enable students to participate in the science involved in monitoring, re-establishing or improving populations of native estuarine fish (black bream) in areas of their depletion
$800 to purchase equipment to enable an educational recreational fishing program to be conducted at the Diamond Valley Sport Game Fishing Club
$40,000 to assess the status of inshore recreational accessed populations of abalone along the central Victorian coast
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Gippsland Region ($287,858)
$1,793 to install a fish cleaning table and signage at Manns Beach, Tarraville
$10,000 to construct 50 stiles to provide improved access for anglers to various waters in catchments of the South Gippsland Basin
$8,170 to improve fish habitat in the Thomson River, West Gippsland
$33,770 for stage two of Traralgon Creek environmental and aquatic restoration project
$24,000 to improve fish habitat in the lower reaches of the Tarwin River
$9,125 (and a commitment to disperse $9,125 in 2003/04 and $9,125 in 2004/5) to improve fish habitat at Innisfail Station, Cobungra River
$40,000 to improve water quality and fish passage within Cunninghame Arm to link with the Warm Holes, Eastern Beach Causeway, Lakes Entrance
$29,000 (and a commitment to disperse $17,500 in 2003/04) to undertake a detailed survey of angler catches in the Macalister River
$82,000 to monitor the movement patterns and habitat preferences of Estuary perch in the Snowy River estuary
$50,000 to replace existing fishing platforms, construct a fourth fishing platform, on the Looerrn board walk Tidal River
Northern Region ($694,473)
$45,000 for an upgrade benefiting recreational fishers at Woolshed Bay, Cairn Curran Reservoir
$20,000 (and a commitment to disperse $20,000 in 2003/04 and $20,000 in 2004/05) to conduct a study to determine the spawning cues for Golden perch and other species in waters surrounding Lindsay Island, Murray Sunset National Park, and Wallpolla Island, State Park
$45,000 to evaluate the current state of knowledge on artificial habitat structure in freshwater impoundments, and install and evaluate structure/s in suitable waters
$85,000 (and a commitment to disperse $85,000 in 2003/04) to assess the population structure, spawning habitat and recruitment, feeding habits, preferred depth/temperature profiles and habitat preferences of large brown trout in Lake Eildon
$47,000 to monitor the movement of brown trout in the Goulburn River to determine how to obtain optimum benefits from the fishery for recreational anglers (view research report summary (PDF 113KB))
$71,373 (and a commitment to disperse $45,050 in 2003/04 and $45,050 in 2004/05) to undertake a study to establish base-line data of fish in the Goulburn River below Nagambie Lakes (view research report summary (PDF 176KB))
$146,100 to determine the movement patterns of Golden perch and Murray cod when released into the Nagambie Lakes (view research report summary (PDF 189KB))
$215,000 to establish access points to the Goulburn River for recreational fishers, and undertake ground works at eight locations along the river to protect and enhance stream habitat, install signage and fencing
$20,000 to erect signage to direct anglers to fishing waters at various sites in north east
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South West Region ($296,631)
$15,730 to stabilise foreshore banks from erosion, and provide recreational fishing access to Tooliorook Lake, Lismore
$5,755 to re-sheet a vehicle access road to Lake Elingamite, Cobden
$28,636 to design and construct a fishing platform at Durham Point, Lake Wendouree, Ballarat
$123,000 to construct a fishing platform on the north-west bank and the north east bank of the Anglesea River
$15,000 to enhance an existing dam and reserve to improve the amenity and facilities for recreational fishing at the Bannockburn Lagoon
$1,250 to stock rainbow trout into the Old Dunkeld Arboretum, Dunkeld
$1,600 to stock brown trout into the Moyne River, Warrnambool
$660 for a recreational fisheries information poster at the Aire River
$5,000 (and a commitment to disperse $5,000 in 2003/04) to develop and deliver a community awareness program for carp management in the Glenelg Hopkins Catchment
$100,000 to develop improved screen designs for carp control for water entering the Glenelg River, and reduce carp biomass
Statewide ($189,908)
$3,000 to promote sustainable recreational fishing practices to children around Victoria
$5,000 to prepare and print a new version of a pest fish education and awareness brochure – Pest Fish: Villains or Victims?
$50,000 to establish Victoria’s Fishing Participation Program
$78,908 (and a commitment to disperse $78,908 in 2003/04 and $78,908 in 2004/05) to continue the Fishcare Volunteer Program across Victoria
$5,500 to produce practical children’s educational resources
$38,500 (and a commitment to disperse $38,500 in 2003/04) to revise, update and republish ‘A Guide to the Freshwater Fish of Victoria’
$7,500 to design and install interpretive signs highlighting estuary dynamics and the issues associated with unlicensed and/or inappropriate breaches of estuary river mouths
$1,500 to conduct a recreational fishing program for disadvantaged men and women
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