All posts tagged "Fish Stocking"

  • Indigenous Employment Program at New Hatchery

    Shepparton’s new native fish hatchery will support Indigenous employment by employing Indigenous people for up to half of the workforce. The Indigenous employment program was announced by Minister for Fishing

  • Bringing Native Fishing to Melbourne

    VRFish, the peak body representing Victoria’s 838,000 recreational fishers, is ecstatic to see the first native fish stocked as part of a new metropolitan lakes native fish stocking program by

  • Victorian Fishers Motor into Golden Era

    Most fishers are probably more concerned with going fishing than politics but you can’t escape the reality the two collide. When state and federal elections come around they are an opportune

  • Summer Native Fish Stocking Bonanza

    The new year has kicked off with a native fish stocking bonanza with the Victorian Fisheries Authority stocking close to a million native fish in the last few weeks. While

  • Hopes For Tiger Trout to Roar into Victoria

    VRFish, the peak body representing Victorian recreational fishers, is this week discussing the potential of introducing the vibrant-patterned tiger trout into Lake Purrumbete, near Camperdown and Rocky Valley Lake, near

  • Golden Opportunities for New Native Fisheries

    VRFish, the peak body representing Victorian recreational fishers, is encouraging the Victorian Fisheries Authority to continue unlocking the incredible potential of new native fisheries across regional Victoria. VRFish Chairman Mr.

  • Keeping track of 6 million fish

    Fishers are often curious to know more about which types of fish are being stocked in their local areas and favourite fishing spots. With the recent announcement that the Victorian

  • Kings Billabong Stocking First

    The very first stocking of native fish has taken place at Kings Billabong on the eastern outskirts of Mildura. VRFish Chairman, Rob Loats was on hand to help with the fish release

  • Putting Life Back in the Mitchell River

    By Rob Caune, VRFish Member (Gippsland Angling Association) The magnificent Mitchell River of East Gippsland was listed as a Heritage River in 1992. It is the largest river without a dam in

  • VRFish challenges old thinking on stocking Murray Cod into Rocklands Reservoir

    VRFish, the peak body representing the interests of Victoria’s 838,000 recreational fishers is challenging the previous thinking that has opposed the stocking of Victoria’s most iconic freshwater native fish, the Murray cod into Rocklands

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