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.

Other RFL Trust Account Expenditure

Instream structures at Second Island in the Snowy River

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

New fishing platform on Jubilee Lake, Daylesford

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.

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. Read the full Lake Tyers Fisheries Reserve report.

Stone stairs at Grey River

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. Read the full research report: Angler diary monitoring of recreational target fish stocks in selected Victorian estuaries.
• $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. Read the full research report on the 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 ($283,126)

Flathead Fred 's Fun Fishing Shows

• $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
• $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.