John Luck.Net Legal Size and Bag Limits for Fish

Octopus cannot be taken from ocean rock platforms in NSW or rock platforms in Sydney Harbour.
All lobsters and crabs carrying eggs must be returned immediately to the water. It is an offence to remove the eggs.
Intertidal invertebrates must not be shucked in or adjacent to any waters except for immediate use as bait.
Gathering invertebrates in Intertidal Protected Areas (IPA) is prohibited.
Commercially produced oysters are purified prior to sale. NSW Health recommends cooking oysters which have not been purified as they may contain harmful bacteria.

Finfish Bag and Size limits
Species	Size limits or Legal Length (cm)	Bag limit
Australian bass and estuary perch	Only 1 fish longer than 35cm	4 in total (max.2 per day)
Australian salmon	-	5
Bream (black/southern, Yellowfin)	25	20 in total
Eels, (short & longfinned) *	30	20 in total
Flathead, dusky/common	36 (only 1 fish longer than 70cm)	10
Flathead (sand, tiger)	33	20 in total (combination of all species)
Flathead,all other	-	20 in total (combination of all species)
Deep-sea fish (hapuka, bar cod, bass groper, gemfish+, blue-eye cod)	-	5 in total (max. of 2 gemfish)+
Groper (blue,red/brown)	-	2 in total (by line only)
Hairtail	-	10
Kingfish	60	5
Luderick	25	20
Mackerel (Spanish, spotted)	-	5 in total
Mangrove Jack	-	5
Marlin (striped, black, blue)	-	2 of each species
Morwong (jackass, rubberlip)	28	20
Morwong: red (red/sea carp)	25	5
Morwong, banded	-	5
Moses perch	-	5
Mullet: sea	30	20
Mullet, poddy (for live bait)	Less than 15cm	20
Mulloway (or jewfish)	45 (only 2 fish longer than 70cm)	5
Pearl perch	-	5
Blackfish, rock	30	10
Sailfish	-	2
Sharks and rays	91 (School shark only)	5 in total (max. of 2 Wobbegong)
Snapper	30	10
Spearfish	-	2
Surgeon, sawtail	-	5
Swordfish	-	2
Tailor	30	20
Tarwhine	20	20
Teraglin	38	5
Trevally *	-	20 in total
Tuna (albacore, big-eye, longtail, southern bluefin, yellowfin)	90 or above	2 in total
Tuna (albacore, big-eye, longtail, southern bluefin, yellowfin)	Less than 90	5 in total
Wahoo	-	5
Whiting sand	27 (sand only)	20 in total

+ Boat trip limit of 10 applies

Invertebrates Bag and Size limits
Species	Size limits or Legal Length (cm)	Bag limit
Abalone Please note: It is currently prohibited to take abalone between Port Stephens and Wreck Bay Beach, JervisBay.	11.5	2
Balmain Bug	10	20
Beach worms	-	20
cockles, mussels (pipis for bait only - do not take beyond 50m of high-tide mark)	-	50 in total
Crab, blue swimmer	6	20
Crab: mud black/mangrove	8.5	5
Crab, spanner	9.3	10
Crab (all other, except soldier)	-	10 in total
Cunjevoi	-	20
Lobster: eastern rock	Min 10.4 - Max 18	2 in total
Lobster: southern male (male)	11
Lobster: southern female(female)	10.5
Lobster (painted, ornate)	-	2 in total
Lobster (slipper, flat)	-	2 in total
Oysters	-	50 in total
Prawns	-	10 litres
Scallops	-	50
Sea urchins	-	10
Turban snails (Sydney, military)	7.5	20

PROTECTED SPECIES

Bag limits of zero (0) - if caught please return these species carefully to the water.

Elegant wrasse
Ballina angelfish
Estuary cod
Black cod
Giant Queensland groper
Weedy (common) seadragon
Eastern blue devil fish
Herbsts nurse shark
Grey nurse shark
Great white shark
Green sawfish

How to measure fish in N.S.W

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