PROJECT NUMBER
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2024-027
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
ORGANISATION:
Victorian Fisheries Authority (VFA) Queenscliff
SPECIES
6 results
PROJECT NUMBER
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2022-210
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
ORGANISATION:
Victorian Fisheries Authority (VFA) Queenscliff
TAGS
SPECIES
Cracking the code on captive breeding of Macquarie Perch
Project number:
2022-116
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure:
$1,303,630.00
Principal Investigator:
Taylor L. Hunt
Organisation:
Victorian Fisheries Authority (VFA) Queenscliff
Project start/end date:
2 Apr 2023
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1 Mar 2026
Contact:
FRDC
Currently, the inability to consistently produce Macquarie perch from captive held broodstock is severely constraining its recovery. Being able to captively breed Macquarie perch will firstly save the species from extinction from a conservation standpoint and secondly, re-establish recreational fisheries for Macquarie perch across its former range in Victoria, NSW and ACT. Establishing captive breeding may also provide new and unique opportunities for aquaculture in Australia for the commercial production of Macquarie perch, suitable for the restaurant industry, akin to Murray cod.
This proposal details four key focus areas of research and development to achieve captive breeding of Macquarie perch within three years, such that Government and in the future, private aquaculture hatcheries, can adopt commercial production of the species. The project seeks $698,630 of investment from FRDC and is supported with over $3 million of co-investment (including matching $605,000 cash and $2.41 million in-kind) from 9 partners across Victoria, NSW, Qld, and ACT. The project aligns with the FRDC R&D Plan 2020-2025, as well as priorities, actions and outcomes in other key national and state plans (Table 4).
1. Develop and optimise artificial diets to meet the nutritional requirements of captive Macquarie perch broodstock and larvae.
2. Optimise the hormonal treatment and explore environmental manipulation to improve spawning of captive held Macquarie perch broodstock.
3. Review, refine and develop breeding strategies and husbandry practices in the hatchery to maximise fish production and fish stocking outcomes with learnings incorporated into Macquarie perch captive breeding hatchery manual.
4. Monitor and evaluate the success of stocked Macquarie perch fingerlings into rivers in northeast Victoria and, where research numbers permit, conduct genetic analyses to inform dietary treatment and genetic management of the species in ongoing captive breeding and stocking of the species.
5. Build community awareness and support by sharing information and encouraging participation in fish stocking and population monitoring events.
Media release
Media release
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2023-07-26
Read the joint media release from Federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Senator the Hon Murray Watt and Victorian Minister for Planning and Outdoor Recreation, Hon Sonya Kilkenny.
Project products
World Recreational Fishing Conference 10 Melbourne 19-23rd February 2023
Project number:
2021-131
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure:
$210,000.00
Principal Investigator:
Cameron Westaway
Organisation:
Victorian Fisheries Authority (VFA) Queenscliff
Project start/end date:
21 Jun 2022
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25 May 2023
Contact:
FRDC
Hosting the WRFC in Melbourne will provide a unique opportunity to build capacity and leadership in the Australian recreational fisher, scientific and management communities, and develop skills in modern technology and methods. It will increase participation in recreational fishing by showcasing Victoria’s and Australia’s fishing and tourism experiences to leading and influential recreational fishing stakeholders from across the world.
The event is expected to attract hundreds of international visitors from at least 20 countries, as well as thousands of recreational fishers and fishing experts from across Victoria and Australia.
Hosting this major event requires support from key recreational fishing stakeholder groups. We would like to seek FRDC’s financial support to assist with operating costs including venue hire (Melbourne Convention Centre), guest speakers, advertising and promotion, and other logistics expenses for the WRFC.
1. To deliver a successful World Recreational Fisheries Conference 10 which explores the challenges of recreational fishing in a changing world
shares the latest science, managment and stakeholder knoweldge
promotes inclusion and cooperation amongst diverse stakeholders and fosters best practice to maintain recover andprotect the worlds recerational fisheries.
Final report
Author:
Cameron Westaway
Final Report
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2023-05-01
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5.09 MB
2021-131-DLD.pdf
The Victorian Fisheries Authority (VFA) was announced to host the next World Recreational Fishing Conference (WRFC) to be held in 2023 in Melbourne. The WRFC is the world’s most prominent gathering of the recreational fishing community and is held every three years for researchers, recreational fishers, angling organisations, governments worldwide to meet and exchange knowledge on hot topics in recreational fishing. The Victorian bid was prepared in partnership with recreational fishing organisations including VRFish and FutureFish Foundation, Women in Recreational Fishing Network (WIRF) and Australian Recreational Fishing Foundation (ARFF). The objective of hosting was to run a high standard international conference which attracted hundreds of Australia’s and the world’s best recreational fisheries scientists, managers and leaders to Melbourne to share and extend their knowledge to their peers and to inspire world’s best practice and increase participation in recreational fishing. FRDC’s specific objective was to deliver a successful WRFC which explores the challenges of recreational fishing in a changing world, shares the latest science, management and stakeholder knowledge, promotes inclusion and cooperation amongst diverse stakeholders and fosters best practice to maintain recover and protect the worlds recreational fisheries.
Utilisation of boat ramp cameras to estimate recreational fishing catch and effort in key Victorian fisheries
Project number:
2021-008
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure:
$142,200.00
Principal Investigator:
Justin D. Bell
Organisation:
Victorian Fisheries Authority (VFA) Queenscliff
Project start/end date:
30 Jun 2021
-
29 Aug 2024
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
There is no current information on total recreational fishing effort or landings for Victorian fisheries and therefore no continuous time series on these variables, as is the case in most jurisdictions. This represent a key knowledge gap, and hence risk, for fisheries sustainability in the state and has resulted in several fisheries (i.e. those with significant recreational catch) being assessed as ‘Undefined’ in the most recent SAFS round.
In addition to the above, the Victorian Government has brought out several bay and inlet fisheries over the last two decades, meaning recreational catch is the most significant harvest component for most species/stocks. This also means that there is no longer commercial logbook data being obtained on which to base assessment of these species/stocks. As such, having recreational catch and effort information will enable more sophisticated population dynamic stock assessment models to be used for assessment purposes. Victoria possesses such a model that is parameterised for the Western Victorian Snapper Stock (WVSS), complete with management strategy evaluation, that cannot be used to inform decision making at present because the landings from the largest fleet (i.e. boat based recreational fishers) are currently unknown.
Recreational catch and effort information will be used for ongoing stock assessment to inform management advice to inform the following immediate, direct priorities: 1) WVSS harvest strategy, 2) rebuilding of the Gippsland Lakes black bream stock, 3) Corner Inlet Management Plan, and 4) assessment of the eastern Victorian snapper stock.
1. Calibration of boat ramp camera infrastructure
2. Extrapolation of fishing effort to boat ramps that do not have cameras using Google Earth imagery
3. Combining fishing effort information derived from boat ramp cameras and Google Earth with creel survey data to estimate the fishing effort and landings of snapper in Port Phillip Bay, the total boat based recreational landings in Corner Inlet and landings of black bream in the Gippsland Lakes
PROJECT NUMBER
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2019-114
PROJECT STATUS:
CURRENT
ORGANISATION:
Victorian Fisheries Authority (VFA) Queenscliff
SPECIES
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