Euastacus armatus is listed under the FFG act. Allowing nearly 1.000.000 Recreational Fishers to target this species with no monitoring is a potentially threatening process.

20 Commercial bait collectors are monitored so that Fisheries Victoria can determine the health of the fishery.

Allowing nearly 1,000,000 Recreational Fishers to take commercial quantities of bait with no monitoring is a potentially threatening process.

Recreational Fishers are not required to be able to differentiate species of crayfish so having NO compliance monitoring is a potentially threatening process to non Cherax sp..

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