The Victorian Government is investing $1-million from the Better Boating Fund into improving Victorian boating facilities through the 2025-26 Recreational Boating Dredging and Access Program and Recreational Boating Structural Maintenance Program. If you have an idea that would make your local ramp more user friendly or think your local ramp needs to be dredged to make it easier to [...]
The start of winter marks one of the most anticipated fishing open seasons on the freshwater fishing calendar – Murray spiny freshwater crayfish season. On 1 June, recfishers will be searching for the world’s second largest freshwater crayfish across north and north-east Victoria. So, grab your beanies and thermals as this very limited open season [...]
Portsea Pier, along the western tip of the Mornington Peninsula, is set to temporarily close to the public for major maintenance works in July 2026. The major maintenance works at Portsea Pier are in response to the significant storm damage experienced in 2024. While emergency repairs were undertaken shortly after the storm event to maintain safe [...]
The King’s Birthday long weekend is our last chance to cast a line for wild trout in our rivers and streams before the annual closed season. Tuesday 9 June marks the start of the trout and salmonid closed season to allow wild trout to breed and applies to most Victorian rivers and streams. During the [...]
It’s an exciting time for Victorian boaters with a suite of new projects under construction, existing facilities receiving much-needed upgrades and other plans in progress to make it easier to get out on the water. Through the Victorian Government’s Better Boating Fund, our boat registrations and marine licences are reinvested in projects and programs that benefit [...]
Freshwater fishers know that European carp wreak havoc on our waterways and freshwater fisheries. Across southeastern Australia, carp dominate freshwater fish communities and, in some areas, make up more than 80% of the fish biomass in areas of the Murray Darling Basin. According to the Victorian Fisheries Authority, there is currently enough carp in Australia [...]
Australia is a dry continent and since European colonisation, our rivers and wetlands have become highly modified to support agricultural and domestic water security throughout the whole country. Unfortunately, the dams, weirs and barrages built on our inland and coastal rivers to manage our fresh water supplies has had a negative impact on fish migration [...]
View the VRFish State Election Priorities Document VRFish State Election Priorities BETTER FISH Growing new recreational fishing opportunities $10m to establish Victoria’s first Estuarine Fish Hatchery, growing Estuary Perch, Australian Bass, Mulloway and Flathead. $10m to modernise trout production facilities at Snobs Creek Hatchery. BETTER ACCESS Enhancing recreational access to our waterways Mandate recreational fishing access [...]
Keep imported, supermarket prawns on your plate – don’t use them as bait. Prawns or seafood purchased from supermarkets or fishmongers should not be used as bait, as this may introduce exotic diseases into Australian waters, such as white spot disease. Imported prawns are required to be labelled for human consumption only and not for [...]
Looking for a fun activity that takes you to beautiful places by the water in the natural environment, where you might even catch a rainbow (trout)? The Red Tag Fly Fishers are hosting a ‘Come and Try’ day for the LGBTQIA+ community on Saturday 16 May to celebrate IDAHOBIT – International day against LGBTIQA+ discrimination. Red Tag’s [...]
