Recreational Fishing
Recreational fishing licence fee
When you're fishing in NSW waters you're required by law to pay the NSW Recreational Fishing Licence Fee
Fish Aggregating Devices - FADs
FADs are installed to provide better fishing for sport and game anglers
Artificial reefs
A series of small artificial reefs have been deployed in identified barren areas in three Recreational fishing havens
Gamefish tagging program
The program is used to obtain information on the biology (distribution, movement, growth, exploitation) of billfish, tunas, sharks and sport fish
Help line
Report illegal or suspect fishing activities to your nearest Fisheries Office or use the Fishers Watch Phoneline on 1800 043 536.
Popular items
- Freshwater fishing photo competition
- Fishing event management
- Fishing workshops
- Fishing safely
- Charter fishing in NSW
- Saltwater bag & size limits
- Freshwater bag & size limits
- Catch & release
- Fishcare volunteers
- Fish stocking
- Newscast magazine
- Recreational fishing havens
- Fishing clubs
- Catch and Release Mats available to recreational fishers
- Apply for Recreational Fishing Trust funds
- Red spot disease
See NSW Maritime website (www.maritime.nsw.gov.au) for boating maps showing navigational aids, boating restrictions, boating facilities and general information.
Food safety
Whats new
- Estuarine Fish Stocking Stakeholder Consultation Meeting
- Billfish identification and tagging guide
- Tuna identification and tagging guide
- Humane harvesting of fish
- Monitoring and Research on Landed Fish at Game Fishing Tournaments in NSW 2006-2007
- Historic insights into NSW coastal fish populations and their fisheries
- Magazine articles on DPI Catch & Release research
Recent News Releases
- 11 Nov 2009Trial helicopter aerial surveillance – shark patrols [30.3 kb PDF]
- 09 Nov 2009Sydney joins popular fishing FAD [30.2 kb PDF]
- 06 Nov 2009Get Hooked Fishing Workshop on the North Coast
- 04 Nov 2009Abalone thieves feel long arm of the law
- 04 Nov 2009Thieves caught in operation targeting blackmarket abalone industry
- 03 Nov 2009Illegal fishers hit in the hip pocket