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Anglers Access – Huon and Macquarie Rivers
The Anglers Access projects on the Macquarie and Huon rivers have been completed and brochures explaining access points are now available. The work involved negotiations with private and public landowners, completion of access agreements, riparian works including willow removal and installation of stiles, fences, water troughs and signs.
IFS and AAT have been implementing the Anglers Access projects on the Macquarie and Huon rivers during 2009. The projects have involved negotiations with private and public landowners, completion of access agreements, riparian works including willow removal and installation of stiles, fences, water troughs and signs.
With all the ‘on the ground’ work now essentially completed the final stage has been the development of the Anglers Access brochures for distribution in both hard copy from major tackle shops and via the IFS, Fishing Tasmania and AAT websites.
You can download the brochures for the Macquarie and Lake Rivers and the Huon River. Hard copies will be distributed to tackle shops over the coming weeks. Alternatively you can contact the IFS on 1300 463 474 or email infish@ifs.tas.gov.au and we will send you a copy.
The Huon brochure identifies access points between the seaward limit at Castle Forbes Bay to the Huon Track upstream from the Tahune Airwalk.
The Macquarie brochure focuses on the area between Longford and Ross and includes a section of the Lake River.
Anglers are reminded that these projects would not have been possible without the cooperation of private landowners and that the basic principle of Anglers Access is: ‘Access is a privilege not a right – if in doubt ask.’
Anglers must observe the access signs and where access is not specifically identified assume that they must seek permission from the landowner.
