| The following are the legal minimum and maximum size limits. |
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| Coral reef finfish bag and size limits* | ||||
| Species | Legal size (cm) | Take and possession limit | ||
| 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 | |||
| Estuary cod | see listing in following table | |||
| Flowery cod | 50 min 100 max | |||
| Greasy rockcod | 38 min 100 max | |||
| Maori cod | 45 min | |||
| Barramundi cod | No take | |||
| Potato cod | No take | |||
| Queensland grouper | No take | |||
| 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 | |||
| All emperors | 25 min | 5 per species | ||
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Emperor exceptions |
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| Red-throat sweetlip | 38 min | 8 | ||
| Long nose emperor | 38 min | 5 | ||
| Spangled emperor | 45 min | 5 | ||
| Red emperor | 55 min | 5 | ||
| All fusiliers | No limit | No limit | ||
| All parrotfishes | 25 min | 5 per species | ||
| All surgeonfishes | 25 min | 5 per species | ||
| All sweetlips (excluding red throat sweetlip) |
25 min | 5 per species | ||
| All tropical snappers and sea perches | 25 min | 5 per species | ||
| Tropical snappers and sea perch exceptions | ||||
| Crimson (rosy) jobfish and lavender jobfish | 38 min | Combined limit of 8 in total for both species | ||
| Chinaman fish | No take | |||
| Crimson seaperch (small mouth nannygai) and saddletail seaperch (large mouth nannygai) | 40 min | Combined limit of 9 in total for both species | ||
| Flame snapper | 38 min | 5 | ||
| Goldband snapper | 38 min | 5 | ||
| Hussar | 25 min | 10 | ||
| Green jobfish | 38 min | 5 | ||
| Paddletail | No take | |||
| Red bass | No take | |||
| Red emperor | 55 min | 5 | ||
| Ruby snapper | 38 min | 5 | ||
| Small-toothed jobfish | 38 min | 5 | ||
| All wrasse | 25 min | 5 per species | ||
| Wrasse exceptions | ||||
| Hump-headed Maori | No take | |||
| Tuskfish (all species) | 30 min | Combined limit of 6 in total for all tuskfish species | ||
| A closed season applies to coral reef
fin fish. For a more information see the Queensland - Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries website |
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| Other tidal species bag and size limits* | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Species | Legal size (cm) | Take and possession limit | |
| Australian bass* | 30 min | 2 | |
| Barramundi* | |||
| East coast | 58 min 120 max | 5 | |
| Gulf of Carpentaria | 60 min 120 max | 5 | |
| Bêche de mer (sea cucumber) excluding black teatfish (take and possession limit of 0) | No limit | 5 | |
| Bream (pikey and yellow finned) | 23 min | No limit | |
| Black lipped pearl oyster | 9 min | No limit | |
| Cod (estuary) | 35 min 120 max | 10 | |
| Crab | |||
| Blue swimmer | 11.5 | No limit | |
| Mud | 15 min | 10 | |
| Spanner* | 10 min | 20 | |
| Dolphin fish | 45 min | No limit | |
| Eels | |||
| Long-finned | 30 min | Combined limit of 10 in total of all species | |
| Short-finned | 30 min | ||
| South Pacific | 30 min | ||
| Flathead | |||
| Bar-tailed | 30 min | No limit | |
| Dusky (mud) | 40 min 70 max | 5 | |
| Sand | 30 min | No limit | |
| Giant trevally | |||
| East coast | No limit | No limit | |
| Gulf of Carpentaria | 35 min | No limit | |
| Gold lipped pearl oyster | 13 min 23 max | No limit | |
| Grass emperor (grass sweetlip) | 30 min | No limit | |
| Grunter bream (small spotted and spotted) | |||
| East coast | 30 min | No limit | |
| Gulf of Carpentaria | 40 min | 10 whole fish or 20 fillets | |
| Jewel fish | |||
| Gulf of Carpentaria | 45 min | No limit | |
| Jewfish | |||
| Silver | 45 min | No limit | |
| Black (east coast) | 45 min | 10 | |
| Black (Gulf of Carpentaria) | 60 min 120 max | 5 with no more than 2 over 100 cm | |
| Kingfish | |||
| Black | 75 min | 10 | |
| Yellowtail | 50 min | No limit | |
| Large-scale sea perch (fingermark) | 35 min | 10 | |
| Luderick | 23 min | No limit | |
| Mackerel | |||
| Grey/broad-barred | 50 min | 10 | |
| Spanish/narrow-barred | 75 min | 3 | |
| Queensland school (east coast) | 50 min | 30 | |
| Queensland school (Gulf of Carpentaria) | 50 min | 10 | |
| Shark | 50 min | no limit | |
| Spotted (east coast) | 60 min | 5 | |
| Spotted (Gulf of Carpentaria) | 50 min | 10 | |
| Mangrove jack | |||
| East coast | 35 min | No limit | |
| Gulf of Carpentaria | 35 min | 5 | |
| Molluscs any—excluding oysters | No limit | 50 | |
| Mulloway | 45 min | 10 | |
| Perch pearl | 35 min | 5 | |
| Prawns | No limit | 10 litres? | |
| ? No more than 10 prawns with their heads or any other part removed, unless the removal was to process the prawns for immediate consumption. | |||
| Queenfish | |||
| East coast | No limit | No limit | |
| Gulf of Carpentaria | 45 min | No limit | |
| Salmon | |||
| King/Burnett (east coast) | 40 min | No limit | |
| King/Burnett (Gulf of Carpentaria) | 60 min | 5 | |
| Blue/Cooktown (east coast) | 40 min | No limit | |
| Blue/Cooktown (Gulf of Carpentaria) | 40 min | 20 | |
| Snapper | 35 min | 5 | |
| Tailor | 30 min | 20 | |
| 72 hours or more on Fraser Island | 30 min | 30 | |
| Tarwhine | 23 min | No limit | |
| Teraglin | |||
| Silver | 30 min | No limit | |
| Jew | 38 min | 5 | |
| Trochus | 8 min 12.5 max | 50 | |
| Tropical rock lobster* (painted crayfish Panulirus ornatus) | 115 mm tail min 90 mm 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 | |
| Wahoo | 75 min | 10 | |
| Whiting (golden lined and sand) | 23 min | No limit | |
| Worms (including part thereof) | |||
| Beach | No limit | 30 | |
| Blood | No limit | 50 | |
| *A closed season applies to these
species. For a more information see the Queensland - Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries website |
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| No-take species | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Barramundi cod | Chinaman fish | Hump-headed Maori wrasse | Paddletail |
| Potato cod |
Queensland grouper |
Red bass | |