Project number: 2014-500
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $60,000.00
Principal Investigator: Allan Hansard
Organisation: Australian Recreational Fishing Foundation (ARFF)
Project start/end date: 18 May 2014 - 31 Jan 2016
Contact:
FRDC

Need

The 2012 National Recreational Fishing Conference was highly successful, enabling the recreational fishing community to gather and discuss issues of national importance. The event also catalysed four initiatives to advance fishing in Australia: development of a charter for the sector, a national fish habitat rehabilitation plan, and renewed commitment to communicating social benefits of fishing, and delivering leadership development initiatives.

The value of regular fishing sector conferences is recognised among the fishing community, and supported by FRDC, to facilitate continued progress, coordination and recognition of achievements. The next national event for the recreational fishing community is planned for 2015.

The primary aim of this event will be to engage the largest cross-section of Australia's recreational fishing community possible in discussing key issues of relevance to their sector, developing a shared vision for the future and agreeing upon strategic actions to pursue this vision. The 2015 event will be re-focused to more directly benefit grassroots recreational fishers, involving a new format, lower cost to participants, higher levels of involvement of well-known fishing personalities in the program, a focus on increased levels of participant interaction in discussions, and a series of events designed to be both informative and entertaining. The revised approach and program of this event will seek to deliver engagement of the broader recreational fishing community on a scale not previously achieved in Australia.

Objectives

1. Deliver a National Recreational Fishing Conference in 2015 which increases the level of meaningful engagement with the recreational fishing community in national issues of importance.
2. Engage with participants at the National Conference to identify priority actions to be progressed following the forum.
3. Acknowledgement of recreational fishing community achievements.
4. Publication of extension products from the event.

Final report

ISBN: 978-0-646-96873-5
Author: Allan Hansard

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