Fishwise Community Grants - 2008 Funding Round

• Increase and reinforce community and volunteer awareness of rules, regulations and other issues relating to marine resources
• Increase the professional and personal development training of volunteers.
• Increase community and volunteer awareness of the importance of accurately measuring their catch and putting undersized and unwanted fish back in the water so they can grown and breed.
• Increase understanding of the meaning of “Fish for the Future”.
• Increase the volunteer membership by 12. Reinforce pride in being a Fishcare Volunteer and generate greater ownership of the program.
• Develop stronger community working linkages with other organisations including Tasports, CSIRO, local councils, Marine Police, Parks, service clubs, St Johns Ambulance, Sailability, national and local private businesses plus junior/senior anglers.

• Provide recreational fishers and the wider Tasmanian community the opportunity to purchase a high quality, visually attractive poster showing Tasmania’s recreational fish species. There is no comparable product currently available.
• The poster will improve community knowledge of Tasmania’s fish species and how to correctly identify these species, with accurate fish identification essential for compliance with species bag and size limits.

• To show fishing is fun and accessible for people of all ages and most areas in Tasmania.
• To explain the resource is precious and we have management rules that ensure sustainability.
• To detail the basic rules such as bag limits, size limits and seasons. Many fishers are unlicensed and difficult to contact directly; that is why this booklet is important.
• Show them how to catch a fish, release it unharmed if appropriate, or despatch it ethically.
• Explain Fishcare Volunteers, how you could be one, and how to contact them for help and advice, and also handout brochures and up to date advice they receive from DPIW Recreational fisheries.

1. Examine the importance of scallop density (spawner biomass) on synchronisation of spawning and recruitment success.
2. Examine the relationship between scallop density and retention of recruits on scallop beds.
3. Determine the origin of scallop recruits in the D’Entrecasteaux Channel.

• Improve public consultation process for government.
• Increase in community input through an enhanced knowledge base about issues and impacts.
• Better engagement with local stakeholders.
• Reduce resistance to change and the amount of time involved in the public consultation process.
• Educate the community about the breadth of knowledge around particular topics.
• Liaise with regional Tasmanian communities on a regular basis.

Fishwise Grants

Fishwise Community Grants - 2007 Funding Round

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