Interesting Info The Bullrout is a tough-looking little fish found only in eastern Australia, from southern New South Wales up into southern Queensland. It lives in estuaries, tidal rivers, and brackish creeks, often resting half-buried in sand or mud where…
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Interesting Info The Bellybar Pipefish are found across northern and eastern coasts, from Western Australia’s Kimberley region across the Top End, down the Queensland coast, and into New South Wales estuaries. It is a slender, snake-like fish that belongs to…
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Interesting Info Atlantic Salmon come from the North Atlantic Ocean, but they were brought to Australia in the 1800s. Today, they are farmed almost entirely in Tasmania’s cool, clean coastal waters, where conditions mimic their natural environment. They are farmed…
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Interesting Info The Chinook Salmon, also called King Salmon, is the largest species of Pacific salmon, originally from the North Pacific Ocean and rivers of North America and Asia. They were first introduced to Australia in the late 1800s, around…
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Interesting Info Introduced to Australia in the 1890s, Rainbow Trout quickly became a favourite sport fish and are now widespread in cooler rivers and lakes of Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales, and parts of South Australia and WA. They are…
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Interesting Info Beady Pipefish are found across the Indo-Pacific, including much of northern Australia from Western Australia to Queensland. They are a slender, elongated fish from the Syngnathidae family, which also includes seahorses and seadragons. It gets its name from…
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Interesting Info The Short-tail Pipefish is a slender, stick-like fish belonging to the Syngnathidae family, which includes seahorses, pipefish, and seadragons. The species has a very wide range — found across the Indo-Pacific, including northern Australia (Queensland, Northern Territory, Western…
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Interesting Info The Pinkeye Mullet is a unique mullet found only in eastern Australia, ranging from the Clarence River in New South Wales north to the Fitzroy River in Queensland. Unlike most mullets, which live mainly in estuaries and coastal…
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Interesting Info The Shorthead Lamprey is a primitive, eel-like fish that are found in coastal rivers and estuaries from southern Queensland through New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, and eastern South Australia. It belongs to the jawless fish group (Agnatha), which…
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Interesting Info The Ocellated River Goby is found in tidal rivers and freshwater creeks of Queensland, the Northern Territory, and northern Western Australia. In addition to Australia, they are distributed widely across the Indo-West Pacific, from India and Southeast Asia…
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Interesting Info The Freshwater Mangrove Goby is found in Queensland’s coastal rivers and swamps, often near mangroves and paperbark wetlands. Its body is slender, semi-transparent, and patterned with faint brown bands or mottling that help it blend into mangrove roots…
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Interesting Info The Common Galaxias is found throughout Australia, from southern Queensland through New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia, mainly in coastal rivers and estuaries. Its body is semi-transparent and golden-brown with scattered dark spots and flecks along…
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Interesting Info The freshwater herring species is endemic to eastern Australia, found only in coastal rivers from southern Queensland to the Hunter River in New South Wales. Its body is slender and silvery with a greenish or bluish back and…
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Interesting Info The Freshwater longtom is found in coastal rivers, creeks, and lagoons of northern Australia, from Queensland across the Northern Territory to northern Western Australia. The species also occurs in New Guinea. Its body is silvery-grey with a greenish…
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Interesting Info The Boofhead Catfish is found in northern Australia (Queensland, Northern Territory, Western Australia) and southern New Guinea, living in both rivers and estuaries. The body is dark grey to bluish on top and silvery below, with long whisker-like…
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Interesting Info The Pacific Shortfin Eel is found across northern Australia, from Queensland to the Northern Territory and into New Guinea and Pacific islands. Its body is dark olive-brown to almost black above and paler below, with a relatively shorter…
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Interesting Info The Southern Shortfin Eel is found across southeastern Australia, including Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and parts of New South Wales, and also occurs in New Zealand and some Pacific islands. The body is dark olive to brown on…
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Interesting Info The Indonesian Shortfin Eel is a widespread Indo-Pacific species, found from India and Southeast Asia through Indonesia and Papua New Guinea to northern Australia. In Australia it occurs mainly in Queensland, the Northern Territory, and northern Western Australia,…
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Interesting Info The Pacific Bonefish is found across the Indo-Pacific region, including northern Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, and Queensland). Its name comes from its bony skeleton, which makes it less desirable as food but a prized challenge for sport…
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Interesting Info The Queensland Yellowtail Angelfish is endemic to eastern Australia, found only from northern New South Wales to the southern Great Barrier Reef in Queensland. Its body is a deep blue-black colour, broken by bold white vertical bands and…
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Interesting Info The Red-ribbon Wrasse is found across the Indo-Pacific, including Australia’s northern reefs from Western Australia across the Northern Territory to Queensland and the Great Barrier Reef. Its body is bright green to bluish with five bold red to…
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Interesting Info The Solarfin Wrasse is endemic to Western Australia, found only from Shark Bay north to the Dampier Archipelago. Its body is greenish-blue with seven strong dark bars running across the sides, while the fins shimmer with yellow and…
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Interesting Info The Ladder Wrasse is widespread across the Indo-Pacific, from the Red Sea and East Africa to Indonesia, northern Australia, and the central Pacific. In Australia, it is found mainly on northern reefs, including the Great Barrier Reef, Coral…
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Interesting Info The Pinkspeckled Wrasse is found widely across the Indo-Pacific, from Indonesia and the Philippines to the Great Barrier Reef and Western Australia, as well as Pacific islands. Its body is slender and pale greenish to bluish with rows…
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