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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.
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| Species |
Legal
size (cm) |
Take
and Possession Limit |
| Australian bass |
30 min. |
2 |
| Barramundi (Qld east coast) |
58 min., 120 max. |
5 (1
during closed season for some dams) |
| Barramundi (Gulf of
Carpentaria) |
60 min., 120 max. |
5 |
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Blueclaw crayfish (Yabby) |
No
limit |
100
(females carry8ing eggs or young must be returned to the water within their
natural range) |
| Catfish, eel-tailed (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) |
| Cherabins |
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
Maroon, Moogerah, Hinze, Bill Gunn [Lake Dyer], Lake Clarendon, Wivenhoe, North Pine,
Cressbrook and Somerset Dams) |
50 min |
1 |
| Cod, Mary River (elsewhere in Queensland) |
n/a |
0 |
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| Eel, long-finned |
30 min. |
A combined total of 10 for long-finned,
Pacific and short-finned eels |
| Eel, Pacific |
30 min. |
A combined total of 10 for long-finned,
Pacific and short-finned eels |
| Eel, short-finned |
30 min. |
A combined total of 10 for long-finned,
Pacific and short-finned eels |
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Lungfish |
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No Take |
| Mangrove Jack (Qld east
coast) |
35 min. |
No
Limit |
| Mangrove Jack (Gulf of
Carpentaria) |
35 min. |
5 |
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Molluscs any - excluding oysters |
No
Limit |
50 |
| Perch, golden
(Yellowbelly) |
30 min. |
10 |
| Perch, jungle |
35 max. |
A combined total of 1 for jungle perch and
northern jungle perch (spotted flagtail) |
| 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. |
As above |
| Welch's
Grunter |
30 min. |
As
Above |
| Sooty
Grunter |
28 min |
Combined limit of 10 for sooty grunter and khaki bream |
| Khaki bream |
No limit |
Combined limit of 10 for sooty
gunter and khaki bream |
| Rainbow Fish (Melanotaenia
sp.) |
No Limit |
Combined limit of
50 (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 |
| Sea
Mullet |
30 min. |
No
limit |
| Spiny crayfish |
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No Take |
The following species have an "in
possession" limit of 20:
- Aggassiz's perchlet
- Aru gudgeon
- Banded grunter
- Berney's catfish
- Bigheaded gudgeon
- Bony bream
- Bug eyed goby
- Cairns rainbow fish
- Celebes goby
- Coal grunter
- Common Archer fish
- Concave goby
- Delicate blue-eye
- Desert goby
- Yellowfin perchlet
- Dwarf goby
- Empire gudgeon
- Fimbriate gudgeon
- Firetail gudgeon
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- Flagtail perchlet
- Flathead goby
- Flyspecked hardyhead
- Freshwater long tom
- Gilberts grunter
- Golden goby
- Lake's carp gudgeon
- Leathery grunter
- Lesser salmon catfish
- Lorentz's grunter
- Marjorie's hardyhead
- Midgley's carp gudgeon
- Mueller's perchlet
- Mulgrave goby
- Ornate rainbow fish
- Pacific blue-eye
- Penny fish
- Poreless gudgeon
- Purple spotted gudgeon
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- Rendahl's catfish
- Reticulated perchlet
- Roman nose goby
- Sailfish perchlet
- Scaleless goby
- Shovel nosed catfish
- Sleepy cod
- Small headed grunter
- Smelt
- Snakehead gudgeon
- Spangled perch
- Spotted blue-eye
- Square blotch goby
- Strawman
- Striped gudgeon
- Threadfin rainbow fish
- Triangular shield catfish
- Trout gudgeon
- Western carp gudgeon
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Available for download pdf format
http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/cps/rde/xbcr/dpi/fishingsizebaglimits.pdf
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