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Salt Water Bag and Size Limits - Fish and Invertebrate

Not all fish species are subject to a legal length. There are five bag limit categories – zero, two, five, 10 or 20 fish per angler.

A maximum daily bag limit of 20 applies to any fish or invertebrate not included in the tables below, except baitfish*.

Baitfish Bag Limits
A bag limit of 50 applies to each of the following baitfish:

Australian anchovy, Maray (or round herring), Southern herring, Pilchard, Slimy mackerel, Blue sprat (or bluebait), Sandy sprat (or whitebait)

A bag limit of 50 comprised of any single species or combination of species applies to the following baitfish:

Garfish (other than eastern sea garfish), Jack mackerel and yellowtail, Hardyhead and silverfish

# the above baitfish bag limits do not apply to charter boat operators.

Legal length - is the minimum unless otherwise stated.
Bag limit - is the maximum number per person in possession.

Please note that the information may change and the latest information can be viewed at: www.fisheries.nsw.gov.au

Picture
Fish
Legal Length
Bag Limit
Australian Bass and Estuary Perch
Only 1 fish longer than 35cm
4 in total (max.2 per day)
Zero bag limit in rivers and estuaries
from 1 June to 31 August each year.
Australian Salmon
-
5
Bonito
-
10
Bream (black/southern, yellowfin)
25cm
20 in total
Dolphinfish
(mahi-mahi)
60cm
10
Only 1 fish over 110cm
Eel long finned
58cm
10 in total
Flathead, dusky/common
36cm
(only 1 fish longer than 70cm)
10
Flathead (sand, tiger)
33cm
20 in total
-
Flathead, all other
33cm
20 in total
Deep-sea fish
(hapuka, bar cod, bass groper, gemfish, blue-eye cod
-
5 in total
(max. of 2 gemfish)
Flounder and Sole
25cm
20 in total
Garfish
(Eastern Sea)
-
20
Groper (blue, red/brown)
30cm
2 by line only
Only 1 fish over 60cm
Hairtail
-
10
Kingfish, yellowtail
65cm
5
Leatherjackets
-
20 in total
Luderick
(Blackfish)
27cm
20
Mackeral Spanish
75cm
5 in total
Mackerel Spotted
60cm
5 in total
Mangrove Jack
-
5
Marlin (striped, black, blue)
-
1 of each species
Morwong
(grey, jackass, rubberlip)
30cm
10
Morwong (red/ sea carp)
30cm
5
-
Morwong, banded
-
5
-
Moses perch
-
5
Mullet (sea/bully)
30cm
20
-
Mullet, poddy (for live bait)
less than 15cm
20
Mulloway (or jewfish)
45cm
(only 2 fish longer than 70cm)
5
Pearl Perch
30cm
5
Red Rock Cod
-
5
-
Rock blackfish
30cm
10
Sailfish
-
1
Samsonfish and Amberjack
-
5 in total
Sharks and rays
91cm
(School shark only)
5 in total
* Only 1 tiger, mako, blue, hammerhead and whaler shark species. Zero bag limit applies to wobbegong.
Snapper
30cm
10
Spearfish
-
1
Surgeon, sawtail
-
5
Swordfish
-
1
Tailor
30cm
20
Tarwhine
20cm
20
Teraglin
38cm
5
Trevallies
30cm for silver trevally only
20 in total
Tuna (albacore, big-eye, longtail, southern bluefin, yellowfin)
90cm and above
2 in total
Tuna (albacore, big-eye, longtail, southern bluefin, yellowfin)
less than 90cm
5 in total
Wahoo
-
5
Whiting
27cm (sand only)
20 in total

 

* Illustration by Roger Swainston. From the book Sea Fishes of Southern Australia by Barry Hutchins and Roger Swainston.

 

Picture
Invertebrate
Legal length
Bag Limit
Abalone
11.5cm
10
Beach worms
-
20
-
Cockles, mussels (pipis for bait only – do not take beyond 50m of high-tide mark)
-
50
Crab, blue swimmer
6cm
20
Crab (mud, black/mangrove)
8.5cm
5
Crab, spanner
9.3cm
10
-
Crab (all other, except soldier)
-
10 in total
Cunjevoi
-
20
Lobster, eastern rock
min10.4cm max 20cm
2 in total
-
Lobster, southern rock (male)
min11.4cm max 20cm
2 in total
-
Lobster, southern rock (female)
min10.5cm max 20cm
2 in total
-
Lobster (painted, ornate)
-
2 in total
-
Lobster (slipper, flat)
-
2 in total
Oysters
(Sydney rock, Pacific, flat)
-
50 in total
Prawns
-
10 litres
Scallops
-
50
Sea urchins
-
10
Turban snails (Sydney, military)
7.5cm
20
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