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.
The free Guide includes colour illustrations of commonly caught fish, maps identifying important boundaries and line drawings of freshwater and saltwater fishing equipment.
The 2015 Guide also includes 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. For example, 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.
PHOTO CREDIT: Bluefin photo by Portland Fishing Charters.