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...
PIRSA with the support of Dr Joshua Stoll held several workshops and meetings with commercial fishers in the South Australian Lakes and Coorong Fishery (LCF) and Marine Scalefish Fishery (MSF), members of Wildcatch Fisheries SA and fish markets to understand whether the concept...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia (PIRSA)
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...
This project examined the impact of Covid-19 on recreational fishing using a citizen science approach. The Australian Recreational Fishing Foundation (ARFF) teamed up with Infofish Australia Pty Ltd to use recaptures of tagged fish in Queensland and fishing competitions around Australia in novel...
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,...
OBJECTIVES: a. To determine the efficiency of Beam, Triple and Prawn
trawling methods for the harvesting of scatlops.
b. To investigate the difference in efficiency between the
sputnik dredge and the Japanese Keta-ami dredge.
c. To investigate the difference in bottom damage between the
sputnik and...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania (NRE TAS)