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DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES Meeting Outcomes - 2005 Regional Fisheries Consultations Fisheries Victoria Management Report Series - No. 20 Fisheries Victoria Management Report Series Regional Fisheries Consultations Meeting Outcomes - 2005 Fish Stocking, Fish Population Surveys and other Recreational Fisheries Management Issues Fisheries Management Paper No. 20 Regional Fisheries Consultations Meeting Outcomes - 2005 Fish Stocking, Fish Population Surveys and other Recreational Fisheries Management Issues Fisheries Victoria Fisheries Management Report Series No. 20 © The State of Victoria, Department of Primary Fisheries Victoria Management Report Series Industries, 2005. No. 20. This publication is copyright. No part may be Authorised by the Victorian Government, 1 Spring produced by any process except in accordance Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3001. with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1968. 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Regional Fisheries Consultations Meeting Outcomes - 2005 ii Contents 1 Introduction........................................................................................................ 1 1.1 Background ...........................................................................................................................................................1 1.2 Fish Stocking.........................................................................................................................................................1 1.3 Fisheries Victoria Contacts.................................................................................................................................1 2 Statewide............................................................................................................. 3 Presentation of Information Items...............................................................................................................................3 2.1 Ten Waters Trout Stocking Program ................................................................................................................3 2.2 On-line Guide to the Inland Waters of Victoria.............................................................................................3 2.3 Australian Federation of Coarse Anglers Association ..................................................................................3 2.4 Impacts of Drought on Departmental Fish Stockings...................................................................................3 2.5 Impacts of Fire on North East and Gippsland Fisheries...............................................................................4 2.6 Appointment of New Executive Director for Fisheries Victoria .................................................................5 2.7 Fish Habitat Protection – Fisheries Notice ......................................................................................................5 2.8 Inland Fisheries Management Plans ................................................................................................................6 2.9 RFL Funding for Fish Stocking .........................................................................................................................6 3 Gippsland ........................................................................................................... 7 3.1 Fish Stockings.......................................................................................................................................................7 3.2 Fish Population Surveys.....................................................................................................................................7 3.2.1 Fish Survey Results from CONS 2004.....................................................................................................7 3.3 Other Management Issues..................................................................................................................................8 3.3.1 Fisheries Victoria........................................................................................................................................8 3.3.2 Region..........................................................................................................................................................8 3.3.3 VRFish .........................................................................................................................................................8 3.3.4 Fisheries Co-Management Council .........................................................................................................8 3.3.5 Futurefish Foundation ..............................................................................................................................8 4 North East............................................................................................................ 9 4.1 Creel Surveys ........................................................................................................................................................9 4.1.1 Eildon Pondage ..........................................................................................................................................9 4.1.2 Lake Hume..................................................................................................................................................9 4.2 Fish Stockings.......................................................................................................................................................9 4.3 Fish Population Surveys...................................................................................................................................10 4.3.1 Surveys undertaken in 2004 ...................................................................................................................10 4.4 Other Management Issues................................................................................................................................10 4.4.1 Fisheries Victoria......................................................................................................................................10 4.4.2 Region........................................................................................................................................................11 4.4.3 VRFish .......................................................................................................................................................11 Regional Fisheries Consultations Meeting Outcomes - 2005 iii 5 North West........................................................................................................ 12 5.1 Fish Stockings.....................................................................................................................................................12 5.2 Fish Population Surveys...................................................................................................................................12 5.2.1 Fish Surveys undertaken in 2004...........................................................................................................12 5.3 Other Management Issues ...............................................................................................................................13 5.3.1 Region .......................................................................................................................................................13 5.3.2 VRFish.......................................................................................................................................................13 5.3.3 Fisheries Co-Management Council .......................................................................................................13 5.3.4 Futurefish Foundation