DRAFT Record of meeting 17 Sept 2020 STAAG EM and reporting...

Call for EOI - ground gear experiments...

An AOS survey completed in winter 2019 found that there were 42,600 tonnes of adult fish spawning on two hills in the eastern zone.  Immature, non-spawning and southern fish were not surveyed and are additional to this. CSIRO FINAL REPORT AOS Eastern Zone 2019-compressed...

Why all Victorian recreational fishers should be licensed More than 50% of Victorian adult recreational fishers are unlicensed, thanks to a generous suite of exemptions.  These privileges date back to a time when governments met the full cost of the State's recreational fisheries program and an ...

By Ross Winstanley* In July 1862, Victoria's out-going Inspector of Fisheries and Oyster Beds, James Putwain, wrote a report of his observations of the colony's commercial fisheries to deputy premier Charles Duffy.  Irish-born Duffy was the Commissioner for Public Works, President of the Board o...