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Fishing Bag Limits Queensland
Legal fish sizes and bag limits
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FRESH WATER FISHES
CLICK HERE TO VIEW BAG LIMITS FOR SALTWATER
AND TIDAL
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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Species |
Legal
size (cm) |
Take
and Possession Limit |
| Australian bass
* |
30 min. |
2 |
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Australian Lungfish |
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No
Take |
| Barramundi |
58 min., 120 max. |
5 (1
during closed season for some dams) |
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Blueclaw
crayfish (Yabby) |
No limit |
100
(females carrying eggs or young
must be returned to the water within
their natural range) |
| Cherabins (fresh water prawns) |
No Limit |
A combined total of 10 for both species (Macrobrachium
lar and M. rosenbergii) |
| Cod,
Bloomfield River Cod |
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No Take |
| Cod, Murray (Queensland section
of the Murray-Darling Drainage Division) |
60 min., 110 max. |
2 |
| Cod, Mary River - Upstream of
the walls of Cressbrook, Hinze, Maroon, Moogerah, North Pine, Somerset and
Wivenhoe Dams and Lakes Dyer (Bill Gunn Dam) and Clarendon |
50 min |
1 |
| Cod, Mary River (elsewhere in Queensland) |
n/a |
No Take |
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Eel, long-finned |
30 min. |
Combined limit of
10 in total of all species |
| Eel, Pacific |
30 min. |
Combined limit of
10 in total of all species |
| Eel, short-finned |
30 min. |
Combined limit of
10 in total of all species |
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Freshwater Catfish (eel tailed catfish - Tandanus tandanus) |
35 min |
Combined limit of 5 in total for fish in the genera Neosilurus,
Tandanus and Neosiluroides (e.g. black, Cooper Creek, eel-tailed,
false spine, short-finned catfish and Hyrtl's tandan) |
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Freshwater Sawfish |
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No Take |
| Garfish |
No
limit |
50 |
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Lungfish |
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No Take |
| Mangrove Jack |
35 min. |
5 |
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Molluscs any - excluding oysters |
No
Limit |
50 |
| Perch, golden
(Yellowbelly) |
30 min. |
10 |
Perch, jungle
Spotted Flagtail (Northern jungle perch) |
35 max. |
A combined total of 1 for jungle perch and
northern jungle perch (spotted flagtail) |
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Perch, silver |
30 min |
Combined limit of 5 for silver perch, Welch's grunter and Barcoo grunter.
Silver perch in Paroo and Warrego River basins are catch and release only. |
| Barcoo Grunter |
30 min. |
Combined limit of 5 for silver perch, Welch's grunter and Barcoo grunter. |
| Welch's
Grunter |
30 min. |
Combined limit of 5 for silver perch, Welch's grunter and Barcoo grunter. |
| Sooty
Grunter |
28 min |
Combined limit of 10 for sooty grunter and khaki grunter |
| Khaki Grunter |
No limit |
Combined limit of 10 for sooty
gunter and khaki grunter |
| Rainbow Fish (Melanotaenia
sp.) |
No Limit |
Combined limit of
20 (banded, black banded, chequered, crimson spotted, desert, Douboulay's
eastern Lake Eacham and McCulloch's rainbowfish) |
| Redclaw crayfish in its natural
range (Gulf of Carpentaria Drainage Division and from the Jacky Jacky River
basin south to the Normanby River basin on the east coast of Queensland) |
No limit |
40 (Females carrying eggs and/or young must be returned to the water
within their natural range) |
| River
Blackfish |
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No Take |
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Saratoga - Northern |
50 min |
Combined limit of 1 for both species (i.e. only one saratoga may be taken) |
| Saratoga - Southern |
50 min |
As above |
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Freshwater
Mullet |
30 min. |
20 |
| Sea
Mullet |
30 min. |
20 |
| Spiny crayfish |
- |
No Take |
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Yabby or Blueclaw Crayfish (Cherax
destructor) |
No limit |
100 (Females carrying eggs and/or young must be returned to the water
within their natural range) |
The following species have an "in
possession" limit of 20:
- Aggassiz's perchlet
- Aru gudgeon
- Australian smelt
- Banded grunter
- Blackast (strawman)
- Blue catfish
- Bony bream
- Boofhead catfish
- Cairns rainbow fish
- Celebes goby
- Coal grunter
- Common archer fish
- Concave goby
- Delicate blue-eye
- Desert goby
- Elongate glassfish
- Empire gudgeon
- Fimbriate gudgeon
- Firetail gudgeon
- Flagtail gudgeon
- Flathead gudgeon
- Flyspecked hardyhead
- Freshwater long tom
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- Gilberts grunter
- Golden flathead goby
- Golden goby (dwarf goby)
- Highfin catfish (berney's catfish)
- Lake's carp gudgeon
- Leathery grunter
- Lorentz's grunter
- Macleay's glassfish
- Marjorie's hardyhead
- Midgley's carp gudgeon
- Mueller's glassfish
- Mulgrave goby
- Northern purple spotted gudgeon
- Obbes Catfish
- Ornate rainbow fish
- Pacific blue-eye
- Penny fish
- Poreless gudgeon
- Purple spotted gudgeon
- Rendahl's catfish
- Roman nose goby
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- Sailfin glassfish
- Sailfin perchlet
- Scaleless goby
- Sevenspot Archer Fish
- Shovel nosed catfish
- Silver catfish
- Silver tandan
- Silver cobbler
- Sleepy cod
- Small headed grunter
- Snakehead gudgeon
- Southern purple spotted gudgeon
- Spangled perch
- Speckled goby
- Spotted blue-eye
- Square blotch goby
- Strawman
- Striped gudgeon
- Tank goby
- Threadfin rainbow fish
- Triangular shield catfish
- Western carp gudgeon
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