Inland Fisheries Service News
The 2013 whitebait season starts Tuesday 1 October
You can now purchase your whitebait licence online for the upcoming season. Whitebait season runs from Tuesday 1 October 2013 to Monday 11 November 2013 and you must have a licence to take whitebait. To get started, click on the following link: https://www.ifs.tas.gov.au/ols/purchase-transaction Select, Purchase a New Licence Enter, Your Name and Date of Birth...
Tiger Trail festival to celibrate links with the Tasmanian Tiger
Community groups and businesses in the upper Derwent Valley are again banding together to celebrate the links that the area has with the Tasmanian Tiger. Across the weekend of 20th to 22nd September the second Tiger Trail Festival will take place in the upper Derwent Valley. Townships and individual businesses from Bushy Park, Westerway, National...
The 2013 Tasmanian Trout and Outdoor Expo
The 9th Annual Bendigo Bank/LAFM 2013 Tasmanian Trout and Outdoor Expo is on this weekend from Saturday 21st to Sunday 22nd September. Gates open at 8am and close at 4pm. At Brumby’s Creek Cressy the annual fishing competition will be held. Catch Travis the tagged rainbow trout and win $10,000.00 or win the fishing pack...
Boating safety
Anglers are reminded of the safety equipment required to be carried on all boats in smooth waters (Inland waters) under The Marine and Safety Act 1997, to ensure a safe trip and avoid a $130.00 fine for failing to carry minimum safety equipment. Anchor rope and chain Approved PFD for all persons on board Bailer/Bilge...
Journal article on Pedder galaxias published
Current and former staff of the Inland Fisheries Service have written and successfully had published a journal article summarising the plight of the Pedder galaxias. It has been included in a special edition of Marine and Freshwater Research focusing on the “Recovery of Threatened Freshwater Fish in Australia”. "The Pedder galaxias was saved from the...
