{"id":4072,"date":"2019-08-22T19:30:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T08:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/?p=4072"},"modified":"2019-09-23T12:40:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T01:40:28","slug":"have-your-say-on-ray-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/2019\/08\/22\/have-your-say-on-ray-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Have Your Say On Ray Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>COMMENTS CLOSE 13 SEPTEMBER 2019<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>VRFish has been asked to provide the views of recreational fishers on the ray protection measures which were introduced by the Victorian Fisheries Authority in August 2017 through a management tool called a Fisheries Notice. Fisheries Notices need to be renewed every 12 months hence the requirement for public consultation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fisheries Notice applies to only recreational fishers and the Victorian Fisheries Authority are not suggesting any changes from last year. The Fisheries Notice:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>prohibits the take or possession of rays greater than 1.5 metres in width<\/li><li>reduces the bag limit to 1 per day<\/li><li>prohibits the take of rays from or within 400 metres of any pier, jetty, wharf, or breakwater.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p><strong><a class=\"button download\" href=\"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/?attachment_id=4075\">Download the Draft 2019 Ray Protection Fisheries Notice<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>What do you think? Here are some pointers to think about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Do you support the continuation of the Fishery Notice? <\/li><li>Have the above rules had the desired affect to improve fish welfare of rays?<\/li><li>What negative or positive impact has the Fisheries Notice had?<\/li><li>Is the Fishery Notice still required?<\/li><li>Does there need to be changes made to what it prohibits or restricts?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>VRFish needs to formulate and submit a response by <strong>13 September 2019<\/strong>. Please pass your feedback to <strong>yoursay@vrfish.com.au<\/strong> to help compile our response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>A Fisheries Notice is a management tool which can be implement promptly and in response to emerging fisheries management issues. Once approved by the Chief Executive Officer of the Victorian Fisheries Authority, a Fisheries Notice unless revoked earlier are valid for a period of 12 months.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo: Mark D. Norman\/Museum Victoria http:\/\/fishesofaustralia.net.au\/home\/species\/1839<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COMMENTS CLOSE 13 SEPTEMBER 2019 VRFish has been asked to provide the views of recreational fishers on the ray protection measures which were introduced by the Victorian Fisheries Authority in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[458,118,2],"tags":[25,451],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4072"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4131,"href":"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions\/4131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrfish.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}