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Your Fishing Licence Fees at Work 04-05
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 2004-05 over $759,000 was allocated to 35 Recreational Fishing Grant Program projects outlined below.
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In 2004-05 over $759,000 has been allocated to 35 projects to improve recreational fishing in Victoria.
| Type of water | Number of Projects | Total funding from licence sales revenue |
| Inland | 8 | $325,990 |
| Estuarine | 2 | $65,000 |
| Marine | 4 | $122,336 |
| Statewide/all-waters | 3 | $20,692 |
| Fish stocking | 18 | $225,840 |
| Total | 35 | $759,858 |
Other RFL Trust Account Expenditure
During 2004-05 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;
- 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; and
- RFL and RFGP-related community information.
Recreational Fishing Grant Program Projects 2004-05
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 2004/2005 and for previous years.
The following is a summary of projects funded from 2004-05 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.
South West Region ($94,150)
$29,500 (and a commitment to disburse $31,500 in 2006 and $20,000 in 2007 from retained 2004/05 RFL revenue) to trial the release and monitoring of stocked rainbow trout (of Tasmanian and NSW strains) in Lake Wendouree, Ballarat (and possibly one other water) to compare growth rates, survival and return to the angler compared to the existing strain of fish stocked by Fisheries Victoria; and to determine if existing brood stock management practices should be altered to provide the best outcome for anglers.
$6,000 to realign and reconstruct a beach-access track at Levies Beach, Thunderpoint Coastal Reserve, Warrnambool.
$4,400 to manufacture and install five stiles over fences and spray blackberries to aid angler access to Lake Cartcarrong, Winslow, Hopkins River Basin.
$2,750 to manufacture and install three stiles over fences, and install signage to aid angler access at the Hepburn Lagoon, north of Newlyn.
Port Phillip Region ($108,064)
$49,500 to design and construct a fishing platform, suitable for persons of all abilities, on the Maribyrnong River, Riverside Park, The Boulevard, Aberfeldie.
$40,000 to design and construct a fishing platform in Moorpanyal Park, North Shore, Geelong.
$8,336 to install solar lighting and signage to illuminate the Griffin Gully pier, Corio Bay.
$5,909 to stock 5,000 yearling rainbow trout into Karkarook Park Lake. Fish to be stocked subject to the completion and outcome of a fish translocation risk assessment.
$2,727 to stock 2,000 yearling rainbow trout into Pakenham Lake, Pakenham.
$1,591 to stock 1,000 yearling rainbow trout (500 in the third semester school holiday break in 2005, and 500 in the 2nd semester school holiday break in 2006) into Bannockburn Lagoon, Bannockburn.
Gippsland Region ($83,500)
$68,000 to rebuild the end section of a jetty and construct a floating fishing platform at McLoughin’s Beach, end of McLoughlin’s Road, Shoal Inlet, Ninety-Mile Beach.
$15,500 to evaluate the importance of large woody debris in improving recreational fishing opportunities for black bream through tracking the broad scale movements throughout the Gippsland Lakes (funds already disbursed).
Northern Region ($398,000)
$68,000 to improve fish habitat through the introduction various in-stream structures, erect fencing and conduct riparian zone revegetation works, improve angler access through Crown frontage reserve, and install signage along 4km of the Rubicon River between the Taggerty-Thornton Road and the Power line utility track.
$38,450 to stock a total of 4,000 tagged yearling Murray cod and 40,000 chemically tagged fingerling golden perch to supplement the stocking into waters where commercial fishing ceased in 2002 (icl. lakes Boga, Reedy, Kangaroo, and Broken Creek, and Kow Swamp); and 150,000 fingerling golden perch into Lake Hume (funds already disbursed).
$37,500 to conduct a study to determine angler-use patterns for Cairn Curran Reservoir, particularly, information on target species and preferred catches. Survey angler-satisfaction and preferences for management objectives and survey fish populations to determine the structure and growth rates of this water’s major species.
$27,273 to stock 150,000 fingerling golden perch into Lake Hume.
$23,636 to stock 3,000 yearling Murray cod, and 40,000 fingerling golden perch into waters where commercial fishing ceased in 2002 inc. Kow Swamp, Lake Charm, Lake Kangaroo, Reedy Lake, and Lake Boga.
$17,727 to stock 10,000 fingerling Murray cod into the Campaspe River, and 50,000 fingerling golden perch into Green’s lake, vicinity of Rochester.
$13,043 to construct a fishing platform at Bridgewater-on-Loddon.
$12,000 to stock 10,000 fin-clipped yearling rainbow trout into Lake Eildon.
$11,500 (and commitment to disburse $52,000 in 2006 and $55,000 in 2007 from retained 2004/05 RFL revenue) to assess the potential for the establishment of a quality brown trout fishery and the control of a pest fish population of roach, through the stocking of triploid brown trout in the Malmsbury and Lauriston Reservoirs.
$9,800 to stock 10,000 fin-clipped yearling rainbow trout into Lake Hume.
$8,364 to stock 5,000 fingerling Murray cod and 5,000 fingerling golden perch into the Broken Creek’s Boulevard area, and 5,000 fingerling Murray cod into the Broken Creek’s Station Street area of Numurkah.
$8,182 to stock 10,000 fingerling Murray cod into the Mitta River below Tallandoon and Pigs Point.
$6,818 to stock 5,000 fingerling Murray cod and 15,000 fingerling golden perch into the Goulburn River from Murchison to Mooroopna.
$4,000 to stock 2,000 fingerling Murray cod and 10,000 fingerling golden perch into the Broken Creek above Katamatite to Nathalia.
$2,091 to stock 10,000 fingerling golden perch into the Broken Creek, township of Nathalia.
$1,364 to stock 1,000 fingerling Murray cod and 1,000 fingerling golden perch into Mollison Creek (above the wall) at Pyalong.
$797 (and a commitment to disburse $797 in 2006 and 2007) to produce 12 issues for each of three years of the publication ‘Up the creek’, to promote recreational fishing and care of the aquatic environment in the Mollison Creek, Pyalong. This project complements the intended stocking of 1,000 fingerling Murray cod and 1,000 fingerling golden perch into Mollison Creek.
$455 to stock 600 fingerling golden perch into each of Lake Amaroo and Lowanna Waters, vicinity of Shepparton.
Statewide ($76,148)
$47,273 to expand Fisheries Victoria’s statewide salmonid, native fish and drought recovery stocking program including approximately 17,000 fingerling golden perch, 11,500 fingerling Murray cod, and a mix of 40,500 fingerling and yearling rainbow trout and brown trout.
$9,410 to produce 300,000 copies of a Recreational Fishing Code of Conduct (funds already disbursed).
$8,182 to expand Fisheries Victoria’s Small Waters (43) Fish Stocking Program (SWFSP) through increased stocking of 5,200 yearling rainbow trout for the 3rd semester school holiday break in 2005 and the 2nd semester school holiday break in 2006 - to be integrated with Fisheries Victoria’s current SWFSP.
$7,282 to translate the ‘Know your fish limits’, (fin fish size and catch limits for recreational fishing in Victoria), into 16 languages to enable non-English speaking persons to understand and comply with fish bag and size limits.
$4,000 to educate recreational fishers in correct fishing practices and procedures by conducting Flathead Fred fishing shows in Victoria.
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