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Your Licence Fees at Work 2007-08
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 2007-08 over $1.2 million has been allocated to 21 projects to improve recreational fishing in Victoria.
| Type of water | Number of projects | RFL revenue funding |
| Inland | 4 | $163,343 |
| Estuarine | 8 | $647,604 |
| Marine | 2 | $172,939 |
| Coastal | 3 | $99,884 |
| Statewide/ all waters | 4 | $13,0912 |
| Total | 21 | $1,214,682 |
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Other RFL Trust Account Expenditure
During 2007-08, RFL revenue also funded:
- Recreational fisheries field services (state wide);
- The administration of the RFL and the RFGP;
- The Victorian Recreational Fishing peak body (VRFish);
- RFL sales commissions;
- RFL and RFGP-related community information; and
- Bay & Inlet commercial fishing licence buy-back loan repayment.
Recreational Fishing Grant Program Projects 2007-08
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 2007/2008 and for previous years.
The following is a summary of RFGP projects funded from 2007-08 RFL revenue. Unless otherwise stated, these projects are listed under the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) region from which the project application emanated.
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Gippsland ($217,349)
$150,000 to construct three fishing platforms on the Tarwin River
$37,349 to install in-stream structures at Second Island in the Snowy River
$30,000 to deliver research priorities in the Lake Tyers Fisheries Management Plan
Gippsland/ South West/ Northern ($314,000)
$44,000 to run angler diary programs in Anderson Inlet, Mallacoota, Lake Tyers, Glenelg and Hopkins rivers, and NE Victoria
$270,000 over three years to develop innovative approaches to monitoring small estuarine fisheries
Northern ($64,500)
$64,500 to determine summer trout habitats in Lake Hume and Lake Dartmouth
Port Phillip ($182,112)
$165,000 to construct a designated fishing platform at Corinella jetty
$12,000 to introduce children and families to recreational fishing in Casey Fields Lake
$5,112 to take disadvantaged primary school children fishing
South West ($310,921)
$80,000 to construct two fishing platforms on Jubilee Lake, Daylesford
$30,000 to replace the Lyndoch fishing jetty on the Hopkins River, Warrnambool
$6,843 to construct an L-shaped fishing platform at Skipton Lake
$7939.00 to install a solar light the fish cleaning table at Apollo Bay boat ramp
$21,575 to build stone stairs at Grey River to the rock (fishing) platform
$26,800 to construct two fishing platforms on the Barwon River at Fyansford
$27,795 to construct stone stairs at Picnic Point, Wye River
$50,514 to build stone stairs at Sturt Point, Wye River, to improve angler access
$59,455 to install a floating fishing platform on the Hopkins River
State wide ($125,800)
$13,800 over three years to promote the recreational fishing code of conduct
$12,000 for ‘Flathead Fred’s’ Kids Fun Fishing Shows
$100,000 over two years to undertake an economic study of recreational fishing in Victoria | Instream structures at Second Island in the Snowy River
New fishing platform on Jubilee Lake, Daylesford
Stone stairs at Grey River
Flathead Fred 's Fun Fishing Shows |
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