Appendix 1 Inventory of Acid-Producing Abandoned Mines in Tasmania Explanations
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Victorian Recreational Fishing Guide 2021
FREE TARGET ONE MILLION ONE MILLION VICTORIANS FISHING #target1million VICTORIAN RECREATIONAL FISHING A GUIDE TO FISHING RULES AND PRACTICES 2021 GUIDE 2 Introduction 55 Waters with varying bag and size limits 2 (trout and salmon) 4 Message from the Minister 56 Trout and salmon regulations 5 About this guide 60 Year-round trout and salmon fisheries 6 Target One Million 61 Trout and salmon family fishing lakes 9 Marine and estuarine fishing 63 Spiny crays 10 Marine and estuarine scale fish 66 Yabbies 20 Sharks, skates and rays 68 Freshwater shrimp and mussels 23 Crabs INTRODUCTION 69 Freshwater fishing restrictions 24 Shrimps and prawns 70 Freshwater fishing equipment 26 Rock lobster 70 Using equipment in inland waters 30 Shellfish 74 Illegal fishing equipment 33 Squid, octopus and cuttlefish 74 Bait and berley 34 Molluscs 76 Recreational fishing licence 34 Other invertebrates 76 Licence information 35 Marine fishing equipment 78 Your fishing licence fees at work 36 Using equipment in marine waters 82 Recreational harvest food safety 40 Illegal fishing equipment 82 Food safety 40 Bait and berley 84 Responsible fishing behaviours 41 Waters closed to recreational fishing 85 Fishing definitions 41 Marine waters closed to recreational fishing 86 Recreational fishing water definitions 41 Aquaculture fisheries reserves 86 Water definitions 42 Victoria’s marine national parks 88 Regulation enforcement and sanctuaries 88 Fisheries officers 42 Boundary markers 89 Reporting illegal fishing 43 Restricted areas 89 Rule reminders 44 Intertidal zone -
Petition to List US Populations of Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser Fulvescens)
Petition to List U.S. Populations of Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) as Endangered or Threatened under the Endangered Species Act May 14, 2018 NOTICE OF PETITION Submitted to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on May 14, 2018: Gary Frazer, USFWS Assistant Director, [email protected] Charles Traxler, Assistant Regional Director, Region 3, [email protected] Georgia Parham, Endangered Species, Region 3, [email protected] Mike Oetker, Deputy Regional Director, Region 4, [email protected] Allan Brown, Assistant Regional Director, Region 4, [email protected] Wendi Weber, Regional Director, Region 5, [email protected] Deborah Rocque, Deputy Regional Director, Region 5, [email protected] Noreen Walsh, Regional Director, Region 6, [email protected] Matt Hogan, Deputy Regional Director, Region 6, [email protected] Petitioner Center for Biological Diversity formally requests that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“USFWS”) list the lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) in the United States as a threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act (“ESA”), 16 U.S.C. §§1531-1544. Alternatively, the Center requests that the USFWS define and list distinct population segments of lake sturgeon in the U.S. as threatened or endangered. Lake sturgeon populations in Minnesota, Lake Superior, Missouri River, Ohio River, Arkansas-White River and lower Mississippi River may warrant endangered status. Lake sturgeon populations in Lake Michigan and the upper Mississippi River basin may warrant threatened status. Lake sturgeon in the central and eastern Great Lakes (Lake Huron, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River basin) seem to be part of a larger population that is more widespread. -
Great Ocean Road Action Plan
B100 GREAT OCEAN ROAD ACTION PLAN Protecting our iconic coast and parks Dormant Tower Hill Volcano 30 responsible organisations 8.6m visitors a year 2/3 within ten years journeys are day trips Nearly 170,000 hectares of Crown land Up to 12,000 visitors Over a day to the 12 Apostles 200 shipwrecks 5.8m visitors spent $1.3b 2cm/yr generating the rate at which the cliffs are being eroded From 1846, the 12 Apostles were once known as limestone “The Sow and Piglets” 7 stacks (out of the original 9), known as the 12 Apostles Great Ocean Road Action Plan Eastern Maar and B100 The Great Wadawurrung Ocean Road People have known is the world’s and cared for this largest war CountryInfographic for at least In 2011 memorial 35,000 Added to the years National Heritage List Rip Curl Pro at Bells Beach is the world’s longest running 2 surfing competition National Parks 24,000 Number of people in Lorne during the Pier to Pub (up from normal population of 1,100) 11,200 jobs 2 in the region in 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires destroyed Marine National the year ending June 2017 Parks 42,000 and 729 hectares houses 3 2015 Wye River bushfire destroyed Marine National Sanctuaries and Rare polar dinosaur 2,260 115 fossil sites hectares houses Protecting our iconic coast and parks Purpose Acknowledgement This Action Plan is the Victorian Government’s response to the Great Ocean Road Taskforce Co-Chairs The Victorian Government proudly acknowledges the Report recommended reforms to Eastern Maar and Wadawurrung People as the traditional management arrangements of the custodians of the Great Ocean Road region. -
Drought Impact on Fish Communities and River Health in the Corangamite Region
Drought impact on fish communities and river health in the Corangamite Region An isolated pool in Painkalac Creek. Tom Ryan and John McGuckin Report prepared for Corangamite Catchment Management Authority August 2007 Drought impact on fish communities and river health in the Corangamite Region Executive Summary This study provides a rapid assessment of river condition and aims to determine the key issues affecting aquatic health including the relative impact of drought. It is designed to help prioritise potential management actions in the drought response plan. Pre-existing catchment issues, such as water extraction, extensive land clearing and lack of riparian vegetation can directly affect river health and compounds impacts caused directly by drought. Where catchments have been degraded by past management practices, the severity of the drought upon stream health has been the most extreme. Waters examined in this study have been classified into 3 distinct classes of river health, streams with minor stress, streams with moderate stress and streams that have severe stress. Waterways with minor drought stress had lower streamflows than normal as a result of the drought but were in no immediate threat of becoming severely stressed by the drought. Waters classified as having moderate stress are ones in which the existing aquatic fauna is expected to be experiencing some stress, however, the stress is unlikely to have caused the loss of species. Streamflow may have ceased in freshwater reaches and water deterioration may have occurred in remaining refuge habitat, however, the duration of the stress upon aquatic fauna has only been for a relatively short period. -
Aire River Estuary Management Plan
SCOPING STUDY: Aire River estuary management plan August 2009 Document history Revision: Revision no. 02 Author/s M. Stacey R. Hardie S. Tilleard Checked R. Hardie Approved R. Hardie Distribution: Revision no. 01 Issue date 28 May 2009 Issued to Simone Wilkie (CCMA) Description: Draft for comment Revision no. 02 Issue date 26 August 2009 Issued to Simone Wilkie (CCMA) Description: Final Citation: Please cite this document as: Stacey, M, Hardie, R and Tilleard, S. (2009). Aire River estuary management plan: scoping study. Report P109021R01 by Alluvium for Corangamite CMA, Colac Ref: L:\Projects\2009\021_Aire_River_Mgt_Plan\1_Deliverables\P109021 _R01V02b.docx Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 Approach 1 2.1 Site inspection and familiarisation 1 2.2 Literature and legislative review 1 Definition of a watercourse 8 2.3 Review and collation of additional background information 9 Historic ground photography 9 Development of a program logic 9 2.4 Development of a spatial activity plan 9 Public land boundaries 10 Attachment A Spatial activity plan and program logic Attachment B Historic ground photography Attachment C Historic aerial photography comparison Attachment D Tasmanian Mudfish ( Neochanna Cleaveri) information Tables Table 1. Planning and management literature reviewed for the project 2 Table 2. Key legislation reviewed for the project 3 Table 3. Relevant management recommendations identified in the literature reviewed for this project 4 Abbreviations Alluvium Alluvium Consulting Pty Ltd CCMA Corangamite Catchment Management Authority CRHS Corangamite river health strategy. DSE Department of Sustainability and Environment MERI Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Improvement Aire River estuary management plan: scoping study i 1 Introduction The Corangamite Catchment Management Authority (CCMA) commissioned Alluvium Consulting Pty Ltd (Alluvium) to undertake a scoping study for the Aire River Management Plan. -
Challenging the Current Assumptions About Salinity Processes in the Corangamite Region, Australia
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Federation ResearchOnline Beyond hydrogeologic evidence: challenging the current assumptions about salinity processes in the Corangamite region, Australia P. G. Dahlhaus & J. W. Cox & C. T. Simmons & C. M. Smitt Abstract In keeping with the standard scientific methods, evidence found which supports significant rises in ground- investigations of salinity processes focus on the collec- water following widespread land-use change. In many tion and interpretation of contemporary scientific data. areas, salinity is an inherent component of the region’s However, using multiple lines of evidence from non- landscapes, and sustains world-class environmental assets hydrogeologic sources such as geomorphic, archaeologi- that require appropriate salinity levels for their ecological cal and historical records can substantially add value to health. Managing salinity requires understanding the the scientific investigations. By using such evidence, the specific salinity processes in each landscape. validity of the assumptions about salinity processes in Australian landscapes is challenged, especially the Résumé En se conformant aux méthodes scientifiques assumption that the clearing of native vegetation has standard, les études de l’acquisition de la salinité se resulted in rising saline groundwater in all landscapes. concentrent sur la collecte et l’interprétation de données In the Corangamite region of south-west Victoria, scientifiques contemporaines. Toutefois, l’utilisation de salinity has been an episodic feature of the landscapes filières multiples de données provenant de sources non throughout the Quaternary and was present at the time hydrogéologiques telles que des compilations géomorpho- of the Aboriginal inhabitants and the first pastoral logiques, archéologiques et historiques peut ajouter de settlement by Europeans. -
Great Ocean Road Action Plan
B100 GREAT OCEAN ROAD ACTION PLAN Protecting our iconic coast and parks Dormant Tower Hill Volcano 30 responsible organisations 8.6m visitors a year 2/3 within ten years journeys are day trips Nearly 170,000 hectares of Crown land Up to 12,000 visitors Over a day to the 12 Apostles 200 shipwrecks 5.8m visitors spent $1.3b 2cm/yr generating the rate at which the cliffs are being eroded From 1846, the 12 Apostles were once known as limestone “The Sow and Piglets” 7 stacks (out of the original 9), known as the 12 Apostles Great Ocean Road Action Plan Eastern Maar and B100 The Great Wadawurrung Ocean Road People have known is the world’s and cared for this largest war CountryInfographic for at least In 2011 memorial 35,000 Added to the years National Heritage List Rip Curl Pro at Bells Beach is the world’s longest running 2 surfing competition National Parks 24,000 Number of people in Lorne during the Pier to Pub (up from normal population of 1,100) 11,200 jobs 2 in the region in 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires destroyed Marine National the year ending June 2017 Parks 42,000 and 729 hectares houses 3 2015 Wye River bushfire destroyed Marine National Sanctuaries and Rare polar dinosaur 2,260 115 fossil sites hectares houses Protecting our iconic coast and parks Purpose Acknowledgement This Action Plan is the Victorian Government’s response to the Great Ocean Road Taskforce Co-Chairs The Victorian Government proudly acknowledges the Report recommended reforms to Eastern Maar and Wadawurrung People as the traditional management arrangements of the custodians of the Great Ocean Road region. -
By J. R. Slack and Jurate Maciunas Landwehr
HYDRO-CLIMATIC DATA NETWORK (HCDN): A U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY STREAMFLOW DATA SET FOR THE UNITED STATES FOR THE STUDY OF CLIMATE VARIATIONS, 1874-1988 By J. R. Slack and Jurate Maciunas Landwehr U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Open-File Report 92-129 Reston, Virginia 1992 U. S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MANUEL LUJAN, Jr., Secretary U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Dallas L Peck, Director For additional information Copies of this report Copies of the HCDN data write to: can be purchased from: can be obtained through: Project Chief, U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Geological Survey Regional Hydrologic Processes Project Books and Open-File National Water Data U.S. Geological Survey Reports Section Exchange (NAWDEX) MS 431 - Natbnal Center Federal Center, Box 25286 MS 421 - National Center Reston, Virginia 22092 Denver, Colorado 80225 Reston, Virginia 22092 CONTENTS Page Preface .................................................................................................................. v Abstract ................................................................................................................. 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 1 Development of the Hydro-Climatic Data Network ....................................... 3 Contents of the Hydro-Climatic Data Network ............................................... 8 Contents of the Hydro-Climatic Data Network Information Disk ................. 23 Summary ............................................................................................................. -
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South‐Western Minor Inlets Fish Habitat 2000 Curdies River, Gellibrand River, Aire River, Barham River, Painkalac Creek, Erskine River, Anglesea River and Barwon River. Geoff Nicholson, Leanne Gunthorpe and Paul Hamer (Editors) February 2009 Fisheries Victoria Assessment Report Series No. 31 South‐Western Minor Inlets 2000 If you would like to receive this Author Contact Details: Geoff Nicholson and Leanne Gunthorpe information/publication in an Fisheries Research Branch, Fisheries Victoria accessible format (such as large PO Box 114, Queenscliff Vic 3225 print or audio) please call the Authorised by the Victorian Government, Customer Service Centre on: 1 Spring Street, Melbourne 136 186, TTY: 1800 122 969, Printed by DPI Queenscliff, Victoria or email Published by the Department of Primary [email protected] Industries. © The State of Victoria, Department of Primary Copies are available from the website: Industries, 2009. www.dpi.vic.gov.au/fishing This publication is copyright. No part may be General disclaimer reproduced by any process except in accordance This publication may be of assistance to you but with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1968. the State of Victoria and its employees do not guarantee that the publication is without flaw of Preferred way to cite this publication: any kind or is wholly appropriate for your Nicholson, G. Gunthorpe, L. and Hamer, P. particular purposes and therefore disclaims all (Eds.) (2009) South ‐Western Minor Inlets Fish liability for any error, loss or other consequence Habitats 2000. Compiled by the Fish Habitat which may arise from you relying on any Assessment Group. Fisheries Victoria information in this publication. -
Otways Forests Facts Pack
OTWAYS FORESTS FACTS PACK www.oren.org.au 1 Much of the text contained in this report is available with extended discussion and references on the OREN website. The website also has a number of photographs of the Otway Ranges. www.oren.org.au April 2003 Otway Ranges Environment Network C/O Apollo Bay Post Office Apollo Bay 3233 (03) 5237 7439 (03) 5221 0314 www.oren.org.au 2 Otway Forests Facts Pack . This Otway Forests facts Pack has been compiled to assist groups and individuals in making a public submission to VEAC on the Angahook – Otway Investigation. The Victorian State Government has a policy to end logging in the Otways by 2008, and to extend the Otway National Park. The current VEAC investigation has much importance in determining the boundaries of an extended Otway Reserve System and OREN urges all who care for the Otways forest and want to see it protected in a National Park to make a VEAC submission, The Otway Forests Facts File outlines forest values and contains a number of maps, statistics and references to assist you in writing a VEAC submission. VEAC : Angahook- Otway Investigation Pursuant to section 15 of the Victorian Environmental Assessment Council Act 2001 (the VEAC act), the Minister for Environment has amended the request to VEAC made by the former Minister for Environment and Conservation concerning the Angahook-Lorne State Park dated 8 September 2002. (a)VEAC is now requested to carry out an investigation of the public land landward of low water mark within the Otway Ranges area shown on the accompanying plan. -
Angahook – Otway Investigation
Second Submission to the Victorian Environmental Assessment Council Angahook – Otway Investigation Submission regarding Discussion Paper and Otway National Park Boundaries December 2003 Presented by the Otway Ranges Environment Network c/- Apollo Bay Post Office, Vic 3233 ph: 03 5237 7439 or 0429 149 472 Table of Contents 1 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................... 3 1.1 OREN VISION FOR THE OTWAY PUBLIC LAND RESERVE SYSTEM ............................................ 3 1.2 DESIGN OF NATIONAL PARK................................................................................................. 5 2 OVERALL OTWAY LANDSCAPE ISSUES .......................................................................... 6 2.1 NATURE CONSERVATION AND NATURAL LANDSCAPES.......................................................... 6 2.2 LARGE BLOCKS OF PUBLIC LAND........................................................................................... 6 2.3 DOMESTIC WATER SUPPLY CATCHMENTS............................................................................. 7 2.4 WILDLIFE CORRIDORS ......................................................................................................... 7 2.5 OTWAY ECOSYSTEMS........................................................................................................... 7 2.6 CONSOLIDATE LAND MANAGEMENT ISSUES........................................................................... 7 2.7 GEOLOGICAL AND GEOMORPHIC SITES -
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Victorian Government Response to Victorian Environmental Assessment Council’s Angahook-Otway Investigation Final Report November 2004 FOREWORD I am very pleased to present the Victorian Government’s response to the Angahook-Otway Investigation Final Report from the Victorian Environmental Assessment Council (VEAC). To help deliver a key Bracks Government election commitment, VEAC was asked to investigate the creation of a single national park in the Otway Ranges and to identify additional public land that should be added to the parks and reserve system. The Otways include a unique blend of features that have helped to make the region one of the most popular destinations in Victoria. The area contains majestic tall forests and waterfalls, beaches and coastal towns linked by the renowned Great Ocean Road. In the hinterland are thriving towns and highly productive agricultural land. The Great Ocean Road region attracted an estimated nine million visitors in 2000, demonstrating its strong appeal, and making a significant contribution to the regional economy. During two years of extensive investigation, more than 1,800 submissions were received from the public, helping to shape VEAC’s recommendations for the future of this precious part of our State. VEAC was required to take into account the environmental, economic and social consequences of any recommendations and I am satisfied that they have done this, with several changes being made to recommendations between the draft and final stages of VEAC’s final report. The Government wishes to thank VEAC for its thorough investigation. The Government has accepted the overarching vision for public land in the Otways outlined in their final report.