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Fishing Bag Limits Queensland
Legal fish sizes and
bag limits -
TIDAL WATER FISHES
CLICK HERE TO VIEW BAG LIMITS FOR FRESHWATER
FISHES
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This guide provides
recreational fishers with important information about
responsible fishing. It covers size, take and possession (bag
and size) limits, and explains how to measure catch, describes
appropriate fishing gear and bait, outlines seasonal fishing
requirements and provides information on noxious, native and
protected fish species. It includes a list of useful contacts
and a table of size, take and possession limits for both tidal
and fresh waters.
The following bag limits,
minimum sizes, and (where indicated) maximum sizes apply to
fish throughout Queensland.
Why does Australia have
Size & Bag Limits? - Click
here to read a great scientific explanation by CRC Reef
Research
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CORAL REEF FIN FISH*
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Species |
Legal size (cm) |
Take & Possession Limit |
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All cods and groupers |
38 min. |
Combined limit of 5 in total
of all cod species. |
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Cod exceptions: |
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Camouflage rockcod |
50 min, 70 max |
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| Estuary Cod /
Blackspotted Rockcod |
38 min, 120
max |
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Flowery Cod |
50 min, 70 max |
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Greasy rockcod |
38 min, 100 max |
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| Maori cod |
45 min |
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| Barramundi
cod |
- |
No Take |
| Potato cod |
- |
No Take |
| Queensland
grouper |
- |
No Take |
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All
Coral
trout* |
38 min. |
Combined limit of 7 in total
of all trout species. |
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Coral Trout exceptions: |
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Chinese footballer trout (blue
spotted coral trout) |
50 min, 80 max |
- |
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All Emperors |
25 min |
5 per species |
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Emperor exceptions: |
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Emperor, red throat* (sweetlip emperor) |
38 min. |
8 |
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Emperor, spangled* |
45 min. |
5 |
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Emperor, long nose |
38 min. |
5 |
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All fusiliers |
No limit |
No limit |
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All parrot fishes |
25 min |
5 per species |
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All
Surgeon fishes |
25 min |
5 per species |
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All Sweetlips (excluding
Red
Throat sweetlip) |
25 min |
5 per species |
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All tropical snappers and sea
perches |
25 min |
5 per species |
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Tropical Snappers and Sea Perch
Exceptions |
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Crimson (Rosy
job fish) Jobfish and Lavender jobfish |
38 min |
Combined limit of 8 in total
for both species |
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Chinaman Fish |
- |
No Take |
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Crimson seaperch (small mouth
nannygai) and saddletail seaperch (large mouth nannygai) |
40 min |
Combined limit of 9 in total
for both species |
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Flame Snapper |
38 min |
5 |
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Goldband snapper |
38 min |
5 |
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Hussar |
25 min |
10 |
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Green jobfish |
38 min |
5 |
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Paddletail |
- |
No Take |
| Red bass |
- |
No Take |
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Red Emperor |
55 min |
5 |
| Ruby Snapper |
38 min |
5 |
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Small Toothed jobfish |
38 min |
5 |
| Miscellaneous
jobfish |
38 min |
5 per species |
| All
Wrasse |
25 min |
5 per species |
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Wrasse exceptions: |
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Hump-headed Maori Wrasse |
- |
No Take |
| Tuskfish (all
species) |
30 min |
Combined
limit of 6 in total for all tuskfish species) |
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A closed season applies to coral reef
fin fish
In addition to individual take and
possession limits for each species above, all coral reef
fin fish species have a combined take and possession limit
of 20. |
OTHER TIDAL SPECIES
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Species |
Legal size (cm) |
Take & Possession Limit |
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Amberjack |
75 min |
Combined limit of 2 in total amberjack and
samsonfish |
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Australian bass* |
30 min |
2 |
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Barramundi (Qld east coast) |
58 min., 120 max. |
5 |
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Beche de mer (sea cucumber) |
No limit |
5 |
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Beche de mer - Black teatfish |
- |
No Take |
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Bream,
Pikey and yellow-finned |
23 min. (25cm from 1 March
2010) |
Combined limit of 30 in total of pikey and
yellowfin bream and tarwhine |
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Blacklip Pearl Oyster |
9 min |
No Limit |
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Cobia (Black Kingfish) |
75 min |
2 |
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Crab, blue
swimmer |
11.5 min. |
No limit |
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Crab,
mud |
15 min. |
10 |
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Crab, spanner * |
10 min. |
20 |
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Eel, long-finned |
30 min. |
A combined
total of 10 for all species. |
| Eel, Pacific |
30 min. |
A combined
total of 10 for all species. |
| Eel,
short-finned |
30 min. |
A combined
total of 10 for all species. |
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Flathead (All) |
30 min. |
Combined limit of 5 in total of all species
(except dusky flathead) |
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Flathead, Dusky (mud flathead) |
40 min., 75 max |
5 |
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Garfish |
No limit |
20 |
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Giant
Queenfish (East Coast) |
50 min |
5 |
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Giant Queenfish (Gulf of Carpentaria) |
50 min |
No limit |
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Gold lipped Pearl Oyster |
13 min, 23 max |
No limit |
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Grass Emperor (grass sweetlip) |
30 min. |
10 |
| Javelin - Barred (spotted
grunter) |
40 min |
10 |
| Javelin - Barred (spotted
grunter) Gulf of Carpentaria |
40 min |
10 whole fish or 20 fillets |
| Javelin - Silver (small
spotted grunter) |
30 min |
10 |
| Jewfish -
Black
(East Coast) |
75 min. |
2 |
| Jewfish -
Black
(Gulf of Carpentaria) |
60 min., 120
max |
5 with no more than 2 over
10cm |
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Jewfish - Scaly (Jewel fish) |
45 min. |
No limit |
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Luderick |
30 min. |
10 |
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Mackerel, grey* |
60 min. |
5 |
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Mackerel, Spanish* |
75 min. |
3 |
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Mackerel, school* |
50 min. |
10 |
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Mackerel, shark |
50 min. |
10 |
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Mackerel, spotted* |
60 min. |
5 |
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Mahi Mahi (Dolphin fish) |
60 min |
5 |
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Mangrove Jack |
35 min. |
5 |
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Mullet - Diamond Scale |
30 min |
20 |
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Mullet - Sea |
30 min |
20 |
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Molluscs (any - e.g. pipis, freshwater mussels, excluding
oysters ) |
no limit |
50 |
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Mulloway |
75 min. |
2 |
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Perch, pearl |
35 min. |
5 |
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Prawns
**No more than 10 prawns with
their heads or any other part removed, unless the removal
was to process the prawns for immediate consumption. |
No limit |
10 litres** |
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Samsonfish |
75 min |
2 |
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Sharks & Rays (Effective from 1 July 2009 |
1.5 max |
1 |
Sharks & Rays exceptions:
Great White Sharks
Grey Nurse Shark
Sawfish
Speartooth Sharks |
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No Take |
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Snapper |
35 min. |
5 |
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Swallowtail Dart |
39 min |
30 |
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Tailor |
30 min. (35 min from 1 march
2010) |
20 |
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Tarwhine |
23 min. (25 min from 1 march
2010) |
Combined limit of 30 in total of pikey and
yellowfin bream, and tarwhine |
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Teraglin, jewfish* |
38 min. |
5 |
| Threadfin (salmon) |
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| - King |
60 min |
5 |
| - Blue (East Coast) |
40 min |
10 |
| - Blue (Gulf of Carpentaria) |
40 min |
20 |
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Trevally |
No limit |
20 |
| Trochus |
8min, 12.5 max |
50 |
Tropical Rock lobster *
(Painted crayfish Panulirus ornatus) |
115mm tail min.
90mm carapace min |
Above 14° south lat. 3 per
person/6 per boat. Below 14° south lat. 5 per person/10
per boat. |
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All other Panulirus species |
No limit |
As above |
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Wahoo |
75 min. |
2 |
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All
Whiting
(except trumpeter
whiting) |
23 min. |
Combined limit of 30 in total of all
whiting species (except trumpeter whiting) |
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Trumpeter Whiting (winter whiting) |
No limit |
50 |
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Wolf Herring |
No limit |
10 |
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Worms (including part thereof) |
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Beach |
No limit |
30 |
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Blood |
No limit |
30 |
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Yellowtail Kingfish |
65 min |
2 |
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NO TAKE SPECIES |
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Barramundi cod, paddletail, chinaman
fish, potato rock cod, red bass, Queensland grouper,
Hump-headed Maori wrasse. |
Other no-take species
include:
- Female mud and blue
swimmer crabs
- Egg-bearing spanner
crabs, slipper lobsters and
tropical rocklobsters
(tropical spiny rock
lobsters)
- Tar-spot tropical
rocklobsters
(tar-spot tropical spiny
rock lobsters)
- All sawfish
- Great white sharks, grey
nurse sharks
and speartooth sharks
- Clams in the family
Tridacnidae,
helmet shells and trumpet
shells
- Black teatfish
Note:
Whales, porpoises, dugongs,
turtles and dolphins are all
protected under the Nature
Conservation Act 1992.
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*A closed season applies to these
species. Please refer to
Recreational fishing rules and regulations for Queensland: A
brief guide (PDF, 532 kB) for more information.
Available for download pdf format
http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/cps/rde/xbcr/dpi/fishingsizebaglimits.pdf
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