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People development program: 2013 FRDC International Travel Bursaries - Brett Cleary to attend World Recreational Fishing Conference 2014

Project number: 2008-314.34
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $5,000.00
Organisation: Game Fishing Association of Australia Inc
Project start/end date: 25 Jul 2013 - 31 Aug 2014
Contact:
FRDC

Need

Recreational Fishing is gaining a high profile in Australia and the need for well informed and educated discussion about policy and management is needed for the recreational sector. Government agencies dominate fishing policy and the need to have experienced views, both from a local and an international prospective is vitally important for future management. GFAA and ARFF represent recreational fishers in Australia, development of strategies and people within these groups will enhance all stakeholders of fisheries.

Objectives

1. Education, understand international views and personnel development
2. Resource Sharing, gaining experience and expertise in international arrangement's.
3. Networking, Building relationships with like minded groups and orginsations
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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