Recreational Fishing Identification Guide
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Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development Recreational fishing identification guide June 2020 Contents About this guide.................................................................................................. 1 Offshore demersal .............................................................................................. 3 Inshore demersal ................................................................................................ 4 Nearshore .........................................................................................................12 Estuarine ..........................................................................................................19 Pelagic ..............................................................................................................20 Sharks ..............................................................................................................23 Crustaceans .....................................................................................................25 Molluscs............................................................................................................27 Freshwater........................................................................................................28 Cover: West Australian dhufish Glaucosoma hebraicum. Photo: Mervi Kangas. Published by Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Perth, Western Australia. Fisheries Occasional Publication No. 103, sixth edition, June 2020. ISSN: 1447 – 2058 (Print) ISBN: 978-1-921258-58-9 (Print) ISSN: 2206 – 0928 (Online) ISBN: 978-1-921258-59-6 (Online) ii Recreational fishing identification guide About this guide his guide has been developed to help you identify the more common species in Western Australia that you may encounter.T The purpose of this recreational fishing guide is to enhance consistent and accurate species identification. If you are unsure about a particular species (or if it is not in this guide), please discuss it with a representative of the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia. You can access additional information on the website dpird.wa.gov.au Six broad ecological depth-based habitats are recognised within each bioregion. Finfish species are listed in the habitat where they most commonly occur. Sharks and crustaceans are presented separately as they may occupy many habitats. Land Freshwater page 28 Pelagic page 20 Estuarine page 19 20m Nearshore page 12 250m Inshore demersal page 4 Offshore demersal page 3 Recreational fishing identification guide 1 About this guide (continued) Throughout this guide you will see all or some of the marine bioregion symbols with each fish illustration, indicating where the species is most likely to occur. NC North Coast GC Gascoyne Coast WC West Coast SC South Coast Freshwater species inhabit the inland bioregions, which are shown on the map on page 28. 114° 50' E North Coast (Pilbara/Kimberley) Kununurra Gascoyne NC Coast Broome GC Port Hedland 21°46' S Karratha Onslow A sh bur Exmouth ton R iver Carnarvon Denham 27°S Kalbarri Geraldton West Coast Eucla Perth WC Esperance Augusta Black Point Albany South Coast 115°30' E SC 2 Recreational fishing identification guide Offshore demersal Eightbar grouper Blue-eye trevalla (Grey banded rockcod, eightbar cod) Hyperoglyphe antarctica Hyporthodus octofasciatus Hapuku Ruby snapper Polyprion oxygeneios Etelis carbunculus Bass groper Flame snapper Polyprion americanus Etelis coruscans Recreational fishing identification guide 3 Inshore demersal Juvenile Juvenile Pink snapper West Australian dhufish (Snapper, pinkie) (Dhuie) Chrysophrys auratus Glaucosoma hebraicum Bight redfish Northern pearl perch (Red snapper, nannygai) Glaucosoma buergeri Centroberyx gerrardi Yelloweye redfish Foxfish Centroberyx australis (Western foxfish) Bodianus frenchii Swallowtail Sunburnt pigfish Centroberyx lineatus (Goldspot foxfish) Bodianus solatus 4 Recreational fishing identification guide Baldchin groper Blackspot tuskfish (Baldie) (Bluebone) Choerodon rubescens Choerodon schoenleinii Blue tuskfish Bluebarred parrotfish (Bluebone) Scarus ghobban Choerodon cyanodus Juvenile Bluespotted tuskfish Western blue groper Choerodon cauteroma Achoerodus gouldii Purple tuskfish Humphead Maori wrasse (Grass tuskfish, bluebone) PROTECTED SPECIES Choerodon cephalotes Cheilinus undulatus Recreational fishing identification guide 5 Inshore demersal (continued) Juvenile Breaksea cod Rankin cod (Black arse snapper) (Whitespotted rockcod) Epinephelides armatus Epinephelus multinotatus Blackspotted rockcod Goldspotted rockcod (Malabar cod, estuary cod, slimy cod) (Estuary cod, slimy cod, greasy Epinephelus malabaricus grouper) Epinephelus coioides Duskytail grouper Yellowspotted rockcod (Spotted trout, trout cod) (Spotted cod, honeycomb cod) Epinephelus bleekeri Epinephelus areolatus Frostback rockcod Tomato rockcod (Spotted cod, honeycomb cod, Cephalopholis sonnerati frostback cod) Epinephelus bilobatus 6 Recreational fishing identification guide Harlequin fish Barcheek coral trout Othos dentex (Inshore coral trout) Plectropomus maculatus Barramundi cod Common coral trout Chromileptes altivelis (Leopard coral trout) Plectropomus leopardus Mainly offshore in NC and GC Potato rockcod PROTECTED SPECIES Yellowedge coronation trout (Potato cod) (Coronation trout, lunartail trout) Epinephelus tukula Variola louti Juvenile Juvenile Queensland groper PROTECTED SPECIES Chinamanfish (Giant grouper, Queensland grouper) (Chinaman) Epinephelus lanceolatus Symphorus nematophorus Recreational fishing identification guide 7 Inshore demersal (continued) Red emperor Mangrove Jack (Reds) (Jacks) Lutjanus sebae Lutjanus argentimaculatus Juvenile Crimson snapper Darktail snapper (Crimson seaperch, red snapper) (Maroon seaperch, dark tailed seaperch) Lutjanus erythropterus Lutjanus lemniscatus Saddletail snapper Moses’ snapper (Scarlet seaperch) (Moses’ perch, fingermark bream) Lutjanus malabaricus Lutjanus russellii Golden snapper (Fingermark seaperch, fingermark bream) Lutjanus johnii 8 Recreational fishing identification guide Stripey snapper Goldband snapper (Spanish flag, stripey seaperch) Pristipomoides multidens Lutjanus carponotatus Brownstripe snapper Rosy snapper (Flagfish) (Rosy jobfish, crimson jobfish) Lutjanus vitta Pristipomoides filamentosus Maori snapper Sharptooth snapper (Maori seaperch) (Sharptooth jobfish) Lutjanus rivulatus Pristipomoides typus Recreational fishing identification guide 9 Inshore demersal (continued) Grass emperor Spangled emperor (Black snapper, blue-lined emperor, Lethrinus nebulosus grass snapper, tricky snapper) Lethrinus laticaudis Bluespotted emperor Redthroat emperor (Lesser spangled emperor) (Sweetlip emperor) Lethrinus punctulatus Lethrinus miniatus Longnose emperor Yellowtail emperor (Long-nosed emperor) Lethrinus atkinsoni Lethrinus olivaceus Redspot emperor Robinson’s seabream (Pink-eared emperor) (Robinson’s bream, Robinson’s perch) Lethrinus lentjan Gymnocranius grandoculis 10 Recreational fishing identification guide Blue morwong Painted sweetlips (Queen snapper) (Slatey bream, sweetlip) Nemadactylus valenciennesi Diagramma labiosum Sergeant baker Rosy threadfin bream Aulopus purpurissatus Nemipterus furcosus Sea sweep Frypan bream Scorpis aequipinnis Argyrops notialis Bighead gurnard perch (Gurnard perch) Neosebastes pandus Recreational fishing identification guide 11 Nearshore No dot markings on Faint or no bars base of pectoral fin King George whiting Southern school whiting Sillaginodes punctatus (Sand whiting, school whiting) Sillago bassensis Western trumpeter whiting Sillago burrus Dot markings on Well defined bars base of pectoral fin Western school whiting (Sand whiting, school whiting) Sillago vittata Goldenline whiting (Golden-lined whiting) Sillago analis Yellowfin whiting Yellowtail scad (Sand whiting, silver whiting) (Yellowtail, yellowtail horse mackerel) Sillago schomburgkii Trachurus novaezelandiae 12 Recreational fishing identification guide Black markings on tail Australian herring Tailor (Herring, tommy ruff) (Chopper – small tailor) Arripis georgianus Pomatomus saltatrix Juvenile Western Australian salmon (Salmon) Snook Arripis truttaceus Sphyraena novaehollandiae Juvenile, often called salmon trout, looks like adult Australian herring but has smaller eye and pointy head Southern garfish Yellowtail barracuda (Gardie, southern sea garfish) (Pike, striped seapike) Hyporhamphus melanochir Sphyraena obtusata Dark blotch below dorsal fin Lower lobe of tail fin longer Three-by-two garfish Longtom (Robust garfish, storm garfish) Family Belonidae Hemiramphus robustus Recreational fishing identification guide 13 Nearshore (continued) Silver trevally Golden trevally (Skipjack, skippy) (Banded trevally) Pseudocaranx georgianus Gnathanodon speciosus This includes the smaller sand trevally (P. wrightii) Bludger trevally Giant trevally Carangoides gymnostethus (GT) Caranx ignobilis Turrum Queenfish (Goldspotted trevally) (Queenie) Carangoides fulvoguttatus Scomberoides spp. Common dart Chinaman rockcod Trachinotus botla (Charlie court) Epinephelus rivulatus 14 Recreational fishing identification guide Blue mackerel Sea mullet (Slimey mackerel, common mackerel) (Mullet) Scomber australasicus Mugil cephalus Oriental bonito Bluetail mullet Sarda orientalis Valamugil buchanani Juvenile Bluespotted goatfish Greenback mullet (Red mullet) Liza subviridis Upeneichthys vlamingii Yelloweye mullet Diamondscale mullet (Pilch,