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Fishing Bag Limits Queensland
Legal fish sizes and
bag limits -
TIDAL WATER FISHES
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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.
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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, 100 max |
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| Estuary Cod |
(see other
tidal species) |
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Flowery Cod |
50 min, 100 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
spot 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* |
55 min. |
5 |
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Emperor, red throat* |
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 |
| Red Emperor |
55 min |
5 |
| Ruby Snapper |
38 min |
5 |
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Small Toothed jobfish |
38 min |
5 |
| 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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Australian bass* |
30 min |
2 |
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Barramundi (Qld east coast) |
58 min., 120 max. |
5 |
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Barramundi (Gulf of
Carpentaria) |
60 min., 120
max. |
5 |
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Beche de mer (sea cucumber) excluding black teat fish |
No limit |
5 |
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Bream, pikey |
23 min. |
No limit |
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Bream,
yellow-finned |
23 min. |
No limit |
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Cod, estuary |
35 min, 120 max |
10 |
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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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Dolphin
fish |
45 min. |
No limit |
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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, bar-tailed |
30 min. |
No limit |
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Flathead, Dusky (mud) |
40 min., 70 max |
5 |
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Flathead, sand |
30 min |
No limit |
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Giant Trevally (East Coast) |
No limit |
No limit |
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Giant Trevally (Gulf of
Carpentaria) |
35 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. |
No limit |
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Grunter bream, (small spotted
& spotted) |
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Queensland East Coast |
30 min. |
No limit |
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Gulf of Carpentaria |
40 min. |
10 whole fish or 20 fillets |
| Jewel fish
(Gulf of Carpentaria) |
45 min. |
No limit |
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Jewfish, silver |
45 min. |
No limit |
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Jewfish, spotted/black* (Qld east coast) |
45 min. |
10 |
| Jewfish,
spotted/black* (Gulf of Carpentaria) |
60 min., 120
max. |
5 with no
more than 2 more than 100cm |
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Kingfish, black* |
75 min. |
10 |
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Kingfish, yellow |
50 min. |
No limit |
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Large scale sea perch (fingermark) |
35 min |
10 |
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Luderick |
23 min. |
No limit |
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Mackerel, grey* |
50 min. |
10 |
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Mackerel, Spanish* |
75 min. |
3 |
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Mackerel, school* (Qld east
coast) |
50 min. |
30 |
| Mackerel,
school* (Gulf of Carpentaria) |
50 min. |
10 |
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Mackerel, shark |
50 min. |
No limit |
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Mackerel, spotted* (Qld east
coast) |
50 min. |
5 |
| Mackerel,
spotted* (Gulf of Carpentaria) |
50 min. |
10 |
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Mangrove Jack (Qld east coast) |
35 min. |
No limit |
| Mangrove Jack
(Gulf of Carpentaria) |
35 min. |
5 |
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Molluscs (any - e.g. pipis, freshwater mussels, excluding
oysters ) |
no limit |
50 |
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Mulloway |
45 min. |
10 |
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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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Queenfish (Gulf of Carpentaria) |
45 min. |
No limit |
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Queenfish ( East Coast) |
No limit |
No limit |
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Salmon, king [Burnett] (Qld
east coast) |
40 min. |
No limit |
| Salmon, king [Burnett]
(Gulf of Carpentaria) |
60 min. |
5 |
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Salmon, blue [Cooktown] (Qld east coast) |
40 min. |
No limit |
| Salmon, blue [Cooktown]
(Gulf of Carpentaria) |
40 min. |
20 |
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Snapper |
35 min. |
5 |
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Sea
mullet |
30 min. |
No limit |
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Tailor |
30 min. |
20 |
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Tarwhine |
23 min. |
No limit |
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Teraglin, jewfish* |
38 min. |
5 |
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Teraglin, silver |
30 min. |
No limit |
| 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. |
10 |
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Whiting, sand & golden lined |
23 min. |
No limit |
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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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NO TAKE SPECIES |
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Barramundi, cod, paddletail, chinaman
fish, potato cod, red bass, Queensland grouper,
Hump-headed Maori wrasse. |
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