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Australian bassA closed season applies to Australian bass throughout Queensland from 1 June to 31 August except in and from waterways upstream of Baroon Pocket, Bjelke-Petersen, Boondooma, Borumba, Cania, Cressbrook, Fred Haigh (Lake Monduran), Gordonbrook, Hinze, Lenthalls, Maroon, Moogerah, North Pine, Somerset, Wuruma and Wivenhoe dams; Claude Wharton and Jones weirs; Isis Balancing Storage (Lake Gregory), and Dyer (Bill Gunn Dam) and MacDonald lakes.BarramundiThroughout the Queensland east coast a closed season applies to barramundi from midday 1 November to midday 1 February, except in and from waterways upstream of Awoonga, Burdekin Falls, Callide, Eungella, Fairbairn, Fred Haigh (Lake Monduran), Kinchant, Koombooloomba, Lenthalls, Peter Faust, Teemburra, Tinaroo and Wuruma dams.The Gulf of Carpentaria closed season for barramundi is from midday 7 October to midday 1 February (possession on boats allowed to midday 17 October).These closures do not apply in East Leichhardt Dam and Belmore, Corella, Julius and Moondarra lakes, and to waterways upstream of these impoundments.A take and possession limit of one barramundi applies during the closed season in all of the 18 lakes and dams mentioned above. The barramundi may be greater than 120 cm. Recreational fishers may continue to fish in the 18 dams and lakes once they have reached their limit of one barramundi.Outside of the closed season, in the 18 dams and lakes mentioned above, a take and possession limit of five applies to barramundi that may include one barramundi greater than 120 cm.It is also prohibited to deliberately target barramundi for catch and release during these closed seasons, as the stress of capture may prevent fish from spawning.
Cherabins No limit Combined limit of 10 in total of both species: Macrobrachium lar and M. rosenbergii Cod Bloomfield River cod No take Mary River cod - Upstream of the walls of Cressbrook, Hinze, Maroon, Moogerah, North Pine, Somerset and Wivenhoe dams and lakes Dyer (Bill Gunn Dam) and Clarendon 50 min 1 Mary River cod - elsewhere in Queensland No take Murray cod# (Queensland part of Murray-Darling Drainage Division) 60 min 110 max 2 Eels Longfin 30 min Combined limit Pacific shortfin (south Pacific) 30 min of 10 in total Southern shortfin 30 min of all eel species Freshwater catfish (eel-tailed catfish) (Tandanus tandanus) 35 min Combined limit of 5 in total of fish in the genera Neosilurus, Tandanus and Neosiluroides (e.g. black, Cooper Creek, eel-tailed, false spine, shortfinned catfish and Hyrtl's tandan) Freshwater sawfish No take Garfish No limit 50 Mangrove jack 35 min 5 Molluscs any-excluding oysters No limit 50 Perch and grunter Golden perch(yellowbelly) 30 min 10 Jungle perch 35 max Combined limit of 1 in total of jungle perch and spotted flagtail Spotted flagtail (northern jungle perch) 35 max Combined limit of 1 in total of jungle perch and spotted flagtail Silver perch 30 min Combined limit of 5 in total for silver perch, Welch's grunter and Barcoo grunter. Silver perch in Paroo and Warrego River basins are catch and release only Barcoo grunter 30 min Combined limit of 5 in total for silver perch, Welch's grunter and Barcoo grunter Welch's grunter 30 min Combined limit of 5 in total for silver perch, Welch's grunter and Barcoo grunter Sooty grunter 28 min Combined limit of 10 in total for sooty grunter and khaki grunter Khaki grunter (Khaki bream) No limit Combined limit of 10 in total for sooty grunter and khaki grunter Rainbow fish (Melanotaenia sp.) No limit Combined limit of 50 (banded, blackbanded, chequered, crimsonspotted, desert, eastern, Lake Eacham, McCulloch's and Murray River rainbowfish) Redclaw (redclaw crayfish in its natural range) Gulf of Carpentaria Drainage Division and from the Jacky Jacky River basin south to the Normanby River basin on the east coast of Queensland No limit 40 (females carrying eggs or young must be returned to the water within their natural range) River blackfish No take Saratoga Northern 50 min Combined limit of 1 in total of northern and southern saratoga Southern 50 min Combined limit of 1 in total of northern and southern saratoga Sea mullet 30 min 20 Spiny crayfish No take Yabby or blueclaw crayfish (cherax destructor) No limit 100 (females carrying eggs or young must be returned to the water within their natural range) *A closed season applies to these species. Please see Closed seasons - fresh waters for more information.#Murray cod cannot be taken from the Barwon, Macintyre or Dumaresq rivers from 1 September to 30 November. See Closed waters - freshwater areas for more information on closed waters in Queensland.The following freshwater species have a take and possession limit of 20 Aggassiz's glassfish (perchlet) Aru gudgeon Australian smelt Banded grunter (barred grunter) Blackmast (strawman) Blue catfish (lessor salmon catfish) Bony bream Boofhead catfish (triangular shield catfish) Cairns rainbowfish Celebes flathead goby Coal grunter Concave flathead goby Delicate blueeye Desert goby Elongate glassfish (yellowfin perchlet) Empire gudgeon Fimbriate gudgeon Firetail gudgeon Flagtail gudgeon (flagtail perchlet) Flathead gudgeon (bigheaded gudgeon) Flyspecked hardyhead Freshwater longtom Gilbert's grunter Golden flathead goby Golden goby (dwarf goby) Highfin catfish (Berney's catfish) Lake's carp gudgeon Leathery grunter Lorentz's grunter Macleay's glassfish (reticulated perchlet) Marjorie's hardyhead Midgley's carp gudgeon Mueller's glassfish Mulgrave goby Northern purplespotted gudgeon (trout gudgeon) Obbes' catfish Ornate rainbowfish Pacific blue eye Penny fish Poreless gudgeon Rendahl's catfish Roman nose goby Sailfin glassfish (sailfin perchlet) Scaleless goby Sevenspot archer fish (common archer fish) Silver catfish (silver tandan) Silver cobbler (shovel nosed catfish) Sleepy cod Small headed grunter Snakehead gudgeon Southern purplespotted gudgeon Spangled perch Speckled goby Spotted blueeye Square blotch goby Striped gudgeon Tank goby (flathead goby) Threadfin rainbowfish Western carp gudgeon No-take speciesAustralian lungfish Bloomfield River cod Freshwater sawfish River blackfish Spiny crayfish Mary River cod - no take except upstream of some dams
Does oreillys weir have an exclusion zone? If not why not?Or is it that the posts on the signs have been eaten by whiteants and signs blown away in the wind? CheersRay
I can make it easier. Closed seasons for bass and Barra apply to tidal waters only.They are suppose to be in place to protect them when vulnerable in breeding schools. If they are not in tidal water they are not breeding.
Can I ask two questions Steve?1. Why would you want the stocked fish in the Brisbane River to breed?2. Where, in the Brisbane River, can Bass breed?
So Stage 4 and 5 males and females which are subject to the same stress and effects of handling should be fair game if they are separated from those tidal waters by a few hundred meters be it unimpeded, have a minor natural barrier ie. rock bar or some pissant weir which can be bypassed by decent downpour ?
1. Because they can and do and are now most likely doing it in every suitable stream/estuary from the Nerang to Caloundra2. The 64 dollar question that can not be answered by me, doubt that anyone would be able to.But they do breed why accept what we have, suitable fishways, habitat improvements, proper bankside management and you would have a return to something like the natural biodiversity of fish species. The periodic entrainment of stocked fish with its boom and bust cycle is a poor substitute IMHO
2. Where, in the Brisbane River, can Bass breed?
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