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2nd biennial national recreational fishing conference, 2008 recreational fishing awards ceremony and 2nd Recfishing Research national workshop.

Project number: 2008-336
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $67,702.00
Principal Investigator: Len Olyott
Organisation: Recfish Australia
Project start/end date: 31 Aug 2008 - 31 Mar 2009
Contact:
FRDC

Need

There is a need for a forum for discussion that is organised and supported by recreational fishers. While other conferences such as ASFB allow the scientific community to meet and discuss aspects of fisheries science, there is no national forum which brings together fisheries managers, recreational fishers and industry representatives.

There is a need to recognise volunteers and other paid individuals involved in sustainable management of recreational fisheries. This is best achieved through a well publicised awards ceremony.

The Next Generation of Leaders program has identified a resource of future fisheries leaders at both the national and state level. There is a need to harness the creative strength of these individuals.

Representatives of the recreational fishing sector met in August 2005 “to develop a more strategic approach to setting research and development priorities” for the sector. The workshop’s main outcomes were the development of 12 priorities and the formation of Recfishing Research to promote and coordinate their implementation.

However, while progress is being made on some national R&D priorities, there is a clear lack of strategic direction and detail on what the current needs are.

Two things are needed:
• a review of the 3-year old R&D priorities and,
• more explicit details of the most immediate and pressing needs under each priority.

An examination of what is being achieved under each priority will help to identify key areas of under-investment and to refocus project development and investment on topics of greatest strategic need. The workshop will place special emphasis on involving young people in industry and research. As well as assisting industry and researchers, the outcome of the workshop will inform FRDC’s immediate investment in recreational fisheries R&D projects and the development of its R&D plan beyond 2010.

Objectives

1. Recfish Australia to host the 2nd biennial national recreational fishing conference.
2. Recfish Australia to present the 2008 National Recfishing Awards
3. Support the participation of the Next Generation of Leaders in the National Recreational Fishing Conference
4. Develop a broad national consensus on current recreational fisheries R&D priorities.
5. Identify and rank specific areas for immediate investment in R&D under each of these priorities.

Final report

ISBN: 978-1-921424-99-1
Author: Leonard Olyott
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2005-322
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Establishing a recreational fishing working group to develop a national implementation plan R, D and E.

Following the success of the National Strategy for the Survival of Released Line Caught Fish it was considered that a national approach needed to be developed to address a broader range of recreational fisheries R,D&E issues. A workshop was held in Hobart in August 2005 to determine the...
ORGANISATION:
Recfish Australia
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Evaluating the benefits of recreational fishing

Project number: 1999-165
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Principal Investigator: Graham Pike
Organisation: Recfish Australia
Project start/end date: 28 Dec 1999 - 30 Dec 1999
Contact:
FRDC

Objectives

1. Attendance at the Evaluating the benefits of Recreational Fishing conference, British Columbia, Canada

Final report

Author: John Harrison
Final Report • 2000-01-01 • 140.82 KB
1999-165-DLD.pdf

Summary

In 1984 a world conference on recreational fishing was held in France. Since then, there had not been a world gathering to discuss and share information regarding recreational fishing. European countries gathered, in Ireland, in 1996 to confer over recreational fishing but this focused only on Europe.

Recfish Australia has always advocated the need to have an international conference. Other countries can often use the trends and findings of research and management ideas from around the world. Networking benefits of such a conference are often overlooked and undervalued.

In 1995 Ms Joelle Row, Resource Management Officer (voluntary position) for the South African Deep Sea Anglers Association, and Professor Tony Pitcher, Director Fisheries Centre University of British Columbia, began discussing the concept of an international conference on recreational fishing. Further talks took place with them and John Harrison, then National Executive Director for Recfish Australia, at the 2nd World Fisheries Congress in Brisbane in 1996.

People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2009-314
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Strengthening partnerships and relationships within the recreational fishing sector

Currently across Australia there are a number of formal, non-formal and ad hoc or loosely aligned industry groups representing specific sectoral interests within the recreational fishing industry. While each group has a specific cause and unique constituency, unnecessary duplication, ineffective...
ORGANISATION:
Recfish Australia
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2011-502
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

RFIDS: Australian National Recreational Fishing Conference 2012

Holding a national conference was identified as a priority project by the Federal Minister's Recreational Fishing Advisory Committee (RFAC) and developed as part of "Recreational fishing in Australia - 2011 and beyond: a national industry development strategy". The conference was held on 17-19...
ORGANISATION:
Recfish Australia
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