This year the weather was considerably more favourable to us. Kid’s Fishing Days were run covering coastal, estuarine, fresh water and impoundments. These events were attended by 1283 kids, 308 instructors and coaches and 554 parents and carers. Each child attending received tackle specific to the local conditions. There were taught how to both use that tackle and care for it. On the days, lunch was provided and varied from the traditional sausage sizzle to red claw on the barbie caught that d .....

A group of very concerned recreational fishers got their boats ready on Friday and met at Blue Fins Fishing Club Inala to voice their significant worries about reductions to their existing catch possession limits and then proceeded to convoy onto the Premiers electorate office in Richlands.



Recreational fishers have been supporting the current Sustainable Fisheries Strategy. They, like many others, including Fisheries Queensland believe that the current fisheries m .....

With funds provided by Fisheries Queensland we were once again able to conduct our Kid's Fishing Program. Due to their popularity we needed more instructors so ran our 12th Level 1 Angler Education Course. This year our Level 1 Angler Ed Instructor Course saw 12 new instructors complete their training. The course was held at Kedron Wavell Services Club and all graduates have since run respective events.

This program we saw 1374 children attend an event with 776 parents or carers ass .....

Here you can download Sunfish Queensland Lesson Documents. .....

Sunfish Queensland supports the review into the management protocols of Fisheries Queensland. We do however believe that our fisheries stocks are generally in good health when compared in an international context. To maintain the healthy stocks and improve those in lesser abundance management of our fisheries needs to move forward and not cling to processes of the past.

We support the vision, goals and areas of reform proposed but the greatest challenges will be resourcing, data, com .....