| THREATENED SPECIES
The Flora and Fauna Guarantee (FFG) Act 1988 lists threatened fish, including crustacea, which may not be taken, traded or kept without a licence, permit or authorisation issued under the Act. A Recreational Fishing Licence does not permit the taking of FFG listed species.
Species caught for bait
No listed species of fish, invertebrates or other organisms listed as threatened under the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988, or species listed under the Wildlife Act 1975, may be taken for use as fishing bait without a licence, permit or authorisation issued under these acts. See also: Bait Restrictions.
Listed threatened species, Flora and Fauna Guarantee (FFG) Act 1988
The following list is continuously being updated.
- Agassizs chanda perch
Australian Grayling
Macquarie Perch
Trout Cod
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- alpine spiny crayfish
- Australian grayling
- Australian mudfish
- brown galaxias
- bony bream
- Cox's gudgeon
- dwarf galaxias
- empire gudgeon
- Ewens pigmy perch
- flat-headed galaxias
- flat-headed gudgeon
- freshwater catfish
- freshwater herring
- Glenelg freshwater mussel
- Glenelg spiny crayfish
- golden perch
- great white shark
- grey nurse shark
- Macquarie perch
- Mallacoota burrowing crayfish
- Murray cod
- Murray hardyhead
- Murray rainbowfish
- Narracan burrowing crayfish
- Non-specked hardyhead
- Orbost crayfish
- silver perch
- South Gippsland spiny crayfish
- southern bluefin tuna
- southern purple-spotted gudgeon
- Strzelecki burrowing crayfish
- Tasmanian whitebait
- trout cod
- Warragul burrowing crayfish
- western carp gudgeon
- western swamp crayfish
- Yarra pygmy perch.
Authorisations made under the FFG act allow recreational fishing for Murray cod, Murray spiny crayfish, Glenelg spiny crayfish, Macquarie perch, freshwater catfish, silver perch and golden perch, and the use of flat-headed galaxias, flat-headed gudgeon and western carp gudgeon as bait under specified conditions, see also size and catch limits here. All other listed species are fully protected.
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Flat-headed Galaxias
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Flat-headed Gudgeon
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Western Carp Gudgeon
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Protected species, Fisheries Act 1995
Great white shark, seahorses, seadragons and pipefish are declared protected species under the Fisheries Act 1995. Taking or possession of these species is prohibited without a permit issued under the Act.
Information on this page used with permission from the Victorian Recreational Fishing Guide, 2002-2003, produced by Fisheries Victoria, Department of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE).
NRE Customer Service Centre, telephone 136 186 (8am-8pm).
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