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Letter to The Hon Julie Collins MP asking for Election Policy – Commonwealth Marine Parks
AFTA’s Letter to ALP With an upcoming Federal election, AFTA has written both openly and directly to many politicians requesting a response regarding their policies on...
Reely Exciting Future For Young Victorian Anglers
Reely Exciting Future For Young Victorian Anglers The Andrews Labor Government is supporting the next generation of recreational fishers through ongoing investment in the sector,...
AFTA calls on Labor to state its position on Commonwealth Marine Parks
AFTA’s Letter to ALP With an upcoming Federal election, AFTA has written both openly and directly to many politicians requesting a response regarding their policies on...
Pre-Pol Voting commences 7th March for South Australian Election
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RECREATIONAL FISHING POLICY SUMMARY Last month AFTA wrote to both the South Australian Liberal Government & Labor Opposition requesting their recreational...
South Australia SNAPPER UPDATE
The laboratory sorting, Snapper egg verification, adult biological processing, and data analysis is labour intensive, with the results expected by the end of the year
By hook or by luck, time to catch Australia’s Most Wanted
By hook or by luck, time to catch Australia's Most Wanted A cash reward of $1 million is being offered to the fisho who can bring in Australia’s Most Wanted Fish,...
Port Phillip Bay Commercial Fishing By-Catch Limits Announced
The Andrews Labor Government is delivering its election commitment to remove commercial fishing nets from Port Phillip Bay by 1 April 2022, with eight snapper longline fishery...
Queensland – Spanish Mackerel Fishery
Queensland - Spanish Mackerel Fishery AFTA Members have reached out over their concerns in the direction the QLD Government is taking with the Spanish Mackerel Stock Assessment...
ARFF Election Policy Platform Document
The Australian Recreational Fishing Foundation has worked with its members to produce the following policy platform document to put in front of key Ministers and Members to help...
Responses to AFTA’s request for SA’s Recreational Fishing Policy Platforms
Updated: March 3, 2022 SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RECREATIONAL FISHING POLICY SUMMARY Last month AFTA wrote to both the South Australian Liberal Government & Labor Opposition...
Milestone First Fish Stocking From New Native Hatchery
Milestone First Fish Stocking From New Native Hatchery The first native fish produced at the new Arcadia hatchery near Shepparton are now ready to be released into waterways...
Open Letter: Recreational Fishing Policy – Federal Election 2022
AFTA is willing and welcomes any request to engage with you on recreational fishing policy matters
2022 Action Agenda for Recreational Fishing
Message for all Politicians: “It’s not how you start the race, it’s more important how you finish it”
$80 million to help rivers and boost jobs in northern Basin
"This funding will pay to build fishways to improve fish movement along more than 2,000 km of northern Basin rivers"The Australian Government is providing $80 million to New...
$1 million boost for SA the ‘Seafood State’. ($850k for Commercial & $150k for Recreational sector)
The new funding over two years will include $450,000 towards a grants program to encourage value-adding projects in the commercial sector, $300,000 to help set up a peak South Australian commercial seafood body, $100,000 grants for regional recreational fishing events, $100,000 towards an innovative industry-led seafood marketing pilot program, $30,000 to promote recreational citizen science initiatives and $20,000 towards a golden fish tag competition.
WA – New rules to stop recreational shark fishing of Port and Leighton Beaches
McGowan Government takes further steps to improve shark hazard mitigation and public safety at Perth beaches New restrictions to prohibit use of wire traces used for...
Victoria – The economic value of recreational fishing
Recreational fishing and boating are popular activities in Victoria and since 2015 the Victorian StateGovernment has invested heavily in both the recreational fishing and boating...
QLD – Recreational Fishing Economic Data
As part of the Queensland Sustainable Fisheries Strategy: 2017–2027, we are working to improve our monitoring and research. Economic indicators can help assess the contribution...
Planning for the future of Marmion Marine Park
Proposed expansion is part of the McGowan Government's Plan for Our Parks initiative Marine park is a popular site for swimmers, fishers and tour operators Work is underway for a...
SA Election Policy – Labor
Labor recognises the contribution recreational fishing makes to the lives of hundreds of thousands of South Australians Every year, around 277,000 South Australians participate...