DEPI: New Recreational Fishing Guide now available

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Thursday 18 December 2014 | Media contact: Nick Foster (03) 9637 8038
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New Recreational Fishing Guide now available


The 2015 Victorian Recreational Fishing Guide is now available and includes important information for anglers about size and bag limits, closed seasons and permitted equipment.

Fisheries Victoria Executive Director Ross McGowan said the free guide included colour illustrations of commonly caught fish, maps identifying important boundaries and line drawings of freshwater and saltwater fishing equipment.

“The 2015 Guide outlines recent changes to catch limits for Murray cod,” Mr McGowan said.

“The minimum size for Murray cod is now 55cm and the maximum size is 75cm.

“The daily bag limit for Murray cod in Victorian rivers has reduced from two to one.

“There have been no changes to the bag limit of two Murray cod in lakes, nor any changes to the three month closed season each year during September, October and November.”

Mr McGowan said the 2015 Guide also included new maps and information about nine shipwreck protected zones along the coast and in Port Phillip Bay.

The Guide is funded by Victorian recreational fishing licence fees and complemented by other products that help anglers obey catch limits and fish sustainably: plastic measures for abalone, rock lobster and spiny freshwater crayfish, fish length ruler boat stickers and abalone pocket cards.

These products, and the guide, are available free of charge from Department of Environment and Primary Industries offices and many bait and tackle shops across the state.

The guide is also available as a free smartphone application, called ‘Vic Fishing’, available to any iPhone or Android users from the iTunes store or Google Play.

The ‘Vic Fishing’ app has proved popular with Victorian anglers, having been downloaded more than 106,000 times.

The guide can be viewed online at http://www.depi.vic.gov.au/fishingguide" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

(a pdf of the front cover of the 2015 Guide is available upon request)

[skeets]

do you know when DPI is updating the iphone app of same?

craig

[fshtim]

should be done already my android app has updated
Tim

[skeets]

You are correct. My app updated just now.