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Recfishwest game for GAMEX 2024
Gamex is one of Australia’s biggest game fishing tournaments. Recfishwest Operations Officer Levi De Boni, a keen game angler himself, was one of our Fishing for Science team attending this year’s event. Here, he…
Salmon Slam is back for 2024!
Scanning waves off epic southern beaches for large black patches, launching lures out the back of the surf and doing spectacular battle with tough-fighting fish – yep, it’s salmon time again! It’…
Keep up to date on South Coast Marine Parks with Recfishwest updates
We were on the South Coast last week talking to local fishers like Mitchell Waideman and hearing their concerns about the State Government’s South Coast Marine Parks proposals. Hear what Esperance Land Based…
Great monthly prizes up for grabs in 2024 for Recfishwest members!
As a thank you to our cast of thousands of Recfishwest free and premium members for their support, we’re giving away some cracking prizes every month courtesy of our partners Shimano! Shimano has not only…
Tuna already tuned in to Recfishwest’s new exclusive members’ lure – the Fish Catcher 3000!
Recfishwest’s latest membership lure started its journey from inside the creative mind of a ten-year-old, then travelled to the Halco lure production team before finding itself inside a tuna’s mouth in…
Cherished South-West fishing platform reopened thanks to Shire of Dardanup’s heroics
A big Recfishwest shout out to the Shire of Dardanup for restoring a much-loved and popular jetty for the South-West community and recognising how important it is for the well-being of fishers. Back in May of 2023…
Metro southern garfish ban lifted
In good news for metro anglers, the ban on southern garfish from Lancelin to Myalup is due to be lifted from Friday 1 March. The ban was implemented in 2017 after an assessment by the Fisheries Department showed…
Recfishwest calls for clarity on proposed offshore wind energy (OWE) projects’ impacts on the marine environment and fishing
Recfishwest says the announcement by the Commonwealth Government on the area being proposed for offshore wind farms was disappointingly light on critical details. The proposal released yesterday has left fishers…
Recfishwest calls on Government to listen to local fishers and re-think illogical and unjustifiable no fishing zones
Recfishwest says that some of the proposed no-fishing zones in the Government’s South Coast Marine Park plans released today are “completely illogical and unjustifiable”. Recfishwest CEO Dr Andrew Rowland said, “…
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