TARFish regularly makes submissions on a range of topics to Ministers, governments, and regulators and we will provide them here.
TARFish will also seek input on the development of its submissions from time to time. To find out how you can get involved, visit our “get involved” page where we list all current open consultations.
Tassie's rec fishers are the greatest users of marine parks and the proposed lock outs by the Commonwealth Government fail to recognise our low impact.
TARFish doesn’t support the draft plan and believes consultation was critically flawed. We think there's a better way.
The first harvest strategy that will explicitly include recreational fishing, TARFish made 16 recommendations to the draft abalone harvest strategy including inclusion of resource allocation, explicit recognition of the economic contribution of recreational fishing, a broader management plan be developed, and what economic returns the Tasmanian community will receive.
TARFish provided a briefing to Legislative Councilors in support of Meg Webb’s Abalone Rules Disallowance Motion
TARFish provided a briefing to Legislative Councilors in support of Meg Webb’s Abalone Rules Disallowance Motion
TARFish is seeking the implementation of management measures that specifically protect Tasmania’s game fishery. For example, an exclusion period implemented immediately prior to formal game fishing events.
TARFish acknowledges the pressing need for the Rock Lobster Fishery Management Plan (the Fisheries (Rock Lobster) Rules 2011) to be remade owing to the expiration on 31 October 2022.
It is important to consider their remake in the context of several other processes underway or due to commence. Specifically, the review of the Living Marine Resources Act 1995 (the LMRA of the Act), the development of a resource sharing framework, and a harvest plan for the rock lobster fishery.
These are crucial to the development of new rules that will have effect for a decade.
Any amended or new legislation should recognise the rights and aspirations of Tasmania’s recreational fishers that have not been formally recognised in legislation previously.
