Fishing Bag Limits Queensland

Legal fish sizes and bag limits - FRESH WATER 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.

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
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	-	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

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
Lungfish	-	No Take
Mangrove Jack (Qld east coast)	35 min.	No Limit
Mangrove Jack (Gulf of Carpentaria)	35 min.	5
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	-	No Take
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	-	No Take