Species - Common recreational saltwater
This page provides information on the size, distribution and characteristics of many common recreational species found in NSW waters . For bag and size limit information, please visit the bag and size limits section.
- Albacore
- Amberjack
- Australian Bass
- Australian Salmon
- Australian Sawtail
- Balmain Bug Ibacus peronii
- Banded Rock Cod (Bar Cod) Epinephelus ergastularius
- Bass Groper Polyprion moeone
- Beach worm
- Bigeye tuna
- Biology and life cycles of prawns
- Black Bream
- Blacklip abalone
- Blue groper
- Blue swimmer crab
- Blue eye Trevalla
- Bluefish
- Bonito
- Cobia
- Cockles
- Commercial scallop
- Cunjevoi
- Cuttlefish
- Red rock cod
- Eastern rock lobster
- Eastern School Whiting
- Eels (Short and Longfinned) Anguilla reinhardtii
- Estuary Perch (Macquaria colonorum)
- Flathead (Bluespotted)
- Flathead (Dusky)
- Flathead (Tiger)
- Flounder
- Garfish
- Gemfish
- Grey Morwong (Rubber lip)
- Hairtail
- Hapuku
- Leatherjacket
- Longtail Tuna
- Luderick
- Mackerel (Narrow-barred spanish)
- Mackerel (Spotted)
- Mahi Mahi (Dolphinfish)
- Mangrove jack
- Marlin (Black)
- Marlin (Blue)
- Marlin (Striped)
- Morwong (Banded)
- Morwong (Jackass)
- Morwong (Red)
- Moses Snapper
- Mud Crab
- Mullet (Poddy)
- Mullet species - including: Sea (Bully), Sand (Lano) and Flat-tail
- Mulloway
- Native Oyster
- Northern bluefin/Longtail tuna
- Octopus
- Pacific oyster
- Pearl perch
- Prawns - Black Tiger
- Prawns - School prawn
- Purple sea urchin
- Rock blackfish
- Sailfish
- Saltwater Nipper
- Samsonfish
- Sand whiting
- Shark - Blue
- Shark - Hammerhead
- Shark - Mako
- Shark - School
- Shark - Tiger
- Shark - Whaler including bull shark, spinner shark, dusky, blacktip, and bronze whalers
- Shark (Wobbegong)
- Shortbill Spearfish
- Slipper lobster
- Snapper
- Sole
- Southern Bluefin Tuna
- Southern Rock Lobster Jasus edwardsii
- Spanner crab
- Squid
- Swordfish
- Sydney rock oyster
- Tailor
- Tarwhine
- Teraglin
- Trevallies
- Tropical Rock Lobster (Painted and Ornate)
- Turban shells
- Wahoo
- Yellowfin bream
- Yellowfin tuna
- Yellowtail kingfish