Target One Million
The State Government is committed to delivering its $46 million Target One Million plan for recreational fishing, which aims to grow participation to one million anglers by 2020.
To get more Victorians fishing, more often, Target One Million will:
- halt commercial netting in Port Phillip and Corio Bays over eight years
- take action on water levels at Lake Toolondo
- pursue reciprocal licence arrangements with New South Wales
- ban netting at the mouths of rivers in the Gippsland Lakes
- establish a Better Fishing Facilities Fund
- increase fish stocking to 5 million fish per year
- implement a marine species stocking program
- open recreational trout cod fisheries in Beechworth
- stock barramundi into Hazelwood Pondage
- allocate 'Stronger Fishing Club' grants
- introduce a minimum legal size for trout
- grow the Victorian Trout Opening Festival
- remove horsepower and boat length restrictions at Blue Rock Lake
- undertake a statewide recreational catch survey
- deliver school education and children's fishing programs.