Mulloway stocking for Target One Million

Tamboon Inlet in Victoria was stocked with 5000 mulloway this week, a first for mulloway stocking in the Cann River area, and yet another promising initiative to improve fishing opportunities in the state.

Recreational fishing is recognised as a healthy outdoor pastime for the entire family in Vic, which is why the State Government is investing in the Target One Million plan to get more people fishing, more often.

Ironcially, the fingerlings were grown by NSW Fisheries at Port Stephens, given their aquaculture expertise with the species, but in a state that is considering no-fishing marine sanctuaries as a way to boost stocks through lock-outs rather than positive direct action.

Lake Tyers in the East Gippsland area was also stocked with mulloway this week, 11,000 of the fingerlings, in fact. Volunteers from the Bemm River and Lake Tyers Beach angling clubs helped the fish on their way.

Lake Tyers now boasts Victoria’s biggest marine stocking effort having received 16,000 mulloway and 25,000 estuary perch fingerlings, with a further 25,000 estuary perch to be released in December.

Stocking mulloway is part of Victoria’s marine stocking program that will run over two years as part of Target One Million, which aims to boost participation to one million anglers by 2020.

Monitoring by angling clubs and fisheries scientists will evaluate the success of these releases by determining the contribution that stocked fish make to mulloway populations and to anglers’ catches.

You can learn more about these great angling initiatives at this Target One Million fish stocking

link. You can see fish being released and stocked here.