East recreational fishing reefs © The State of Department of Environment and Primary Industries, June 2014 recreational fishing reefs

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Disclaimer This publication may be of assistance to you but the State of Victoria and its employees do not guarantee that the publication is without flaw of any kind or is wholly appropriate for your particular purposes and therefore disclaims all Is commercial fishing How can anglers help? liability for any error, loss or other consequence which may arise from you relying on any information in this publication. allowed? Fisheries Victoria is very interested in receiving feedback on how these reefs are performing. The two reefs at Metung and Nungurner in Please send any comments, reports and the have commercial fishing photos from your fishing on these new reefs exclusion zones around them, so can only be to [email protected] fished by recreational anglers. The reefs may at times hold congregations Commercial fishing exclusion zones are not of juvenile fish. Please fish responsibly and required for the reefs in Mallacoota Inlet adhere to Fisheries regulations at all times. and Lake Tyers as both of these waters are Refer to the Victorian Recreational Fishing Customer Service Centre 136 186 managed as Recreational Fisheries Reserves, Guide for more information. and so are closed to commercial fishing www.depi.vic.gov.au/fishing except for a small number of licenced bait The Department of Environment and Primary fishermen. Industries does not condone the dumping of any material to create illegal reefs in Victorian waters. Please contact the Environment Protection Authority on 1300 EPA VIC (1300 372 842) if you spot illegal dumping. East Gippsland recreational fishing reefs

149 47.073 149 47.114 37 31.124 37 31.139 Mill 148 04.785 149 47.039 Point 37 31.204 149 47.084 Chinamans 37 50.071 148 04.839 North Goodwin 37 31.220 Creek 148 04.783 37 50.071 37 50.124 Lake Tyers 148 04.481 Aboriginal Trust Goodwin 37 50.109 149 45.779 Sands 37 31.870 149 45.848 147 51 625 37 31.893 37 53 090 147 51 653 147 53 399 Glass House 149 45.764 149 45.836 148 04.917 37 31.906 147 51 611 37 53 098 37 53 096 148 05.536 37 31.929 147 53 426 Fishermans 37 50.542 148 05.473 Point 37 53 151 147 53 354 37 50.517 37 50.517 147 51 640 37 53 118 148 04.955 148 06.474 South Goodwin 37 53 151 Landing 148 05.534 148 06.402 37 53 157 147 53 380 148 04.873 37 50.580 148 05.476 37 50.676 37 50.569 37 50.690 Metung 37 53 174 37 50.580 148 04.911 37 50.517 Bancroft Bay 37 50.620 148 06.407 Bottom Lake Boardwalk Nungurner 37 50.719 148 06.480 37 50.704

Lake Tyers

Lake Tyers township

Bass Strait Bass Strait Mallacoota township

Gippsland Lakes Lake Tyers Mallacoota Inlet In 2014 the Department of The creation of the eight new reefs was Where are the new reefs? Lake Tyers What do the reefs What fish will they funded by the Recreational Fishing Initiative. Environment and Primary Industries Four reefs have been built in Lake Tyers. Apart from these new reefs, the Initiative The eight reefs are spread across three look like? attract? established 8 new recreational fishing Three of the reefs are situated in the bottom has also improved angler access, stocked major estuaries, all of which are popular with reefs in East Gippsland. These reefs lake and a fourth is situated out from Mill Each reef consists of a number of smaller The reefs are expected to be rapidly more trout and native fish, upgraded boat recreational fishers. Point in the Toorloo Arm. ‘patch reefs’ which are made up of 15 colonised by a variety of aquatic plants and will improve fishing opportunities for launching facilities, built fish cleaning tables, purpose-built reef modules of different animals. Bream, snapper and dusky flathead both boat and shore-based fishers. boosted fisheries research and strengthened Gippsland Lakes shapes and sizes. are likely to be the main species attracted to fisheries enforcement and education. Mallacoota Inlet the reefs. Other species likely to occur on the Two reefs have been built in the Gippsland Two reefs have been built in Mallacoota Inlet These concrete reef modules have a rough reefs from time to time include leatherjackets, Lakes, one at Metung and the other at around the area known as the Goodwin surface and a number of holes and cavities luderick, silver trevally and mulloway. Nungurner. The Metung reef can readily be Sands in the bottom lake. in them to allow water flow and provide accessed by shore-based fishers. refuges for marine life. The concrete mix is environmentally-friendly so there is no leaching of toxins.