Seafood by Season

March 2010

Your State by State and Month by Month Guide to Australia's Seafood Seasonality

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Standard Fish Name	NSW	NT	QLD	SA	TAS	VIC	WA
albacore
angel shark
atlantic salmon
australian salmon
balmain bug
banana prawn
banded morwong
barramundi
bartail flathead
bay flounder
bay prawn
bigeye tuna
bight redfish
black bream
black oreodory (ies)
black tiger prawn
blacklip abalone
blacktip shark
blue grenadier
blue mussel
blue swimmer crab
blue threadfin
blue warehou
blue-eye trevalla
bluespotted emperor
brownlip abalone
cobia
commercial scallop
common jack mackerel
coral trout
deepwater flathead
diamondscale mullet
dusky flathead
eastern rocklobster
eastern sea garfish
endeavour prawn
giant crab
goldband snapper (s)
golden perch
golden trevally
goldenline whiting
green jobfish
greenback flounder
greenlip abalone
grey mackerel
gummy shark (s)
john dory
king george whiting
king prawn
king snapper
king threadfin
leatherjacket
ling
longfin eel
mackerel tuna
marron
mirror dory
moreton bay bug
morwong
mud crab
mullet
mulloway
murray cod (s)
new zealand arrow squid
northern calamari
northern sand flathead
ocean jacket
octopus
orange roughy
pacific oyster
pearl perch (es)
pilchard
red emperor
redclaw
redfish
river garfish
rock flathead
rockcod
roe's abalone
rosy monocle bream
sand crab
sand whiting
saucer scallop
school mackerel
school prawn
school shark
school whiting
sea cucumber
sea mullet
sea urchin
silver dory
silver perch
silver trevally
silver warehou
skipjack tuna
smooth oreodory
snapper
snubnose garfish
southern bluefin tuna
southern bluespotted flathead
southern calamari
southern garfish
southern rocklobster
southern sand flathead
southern shortfin eel
spanish mackerel
spanner crab
spikey dogfish
spikey oreodory
sydney rock oyster
tailor
tiger flathead
tiger prawn
tropical rocklobster
trout
trumpeter whiting
velvet leatherjacket
west australian dhufish
western rocklobster
wrasse
yabby
yellowfin bream
yellowfin tuna
yellowfin whiting
yellowtail kingfish

Adapted from 'Australian Seafood by Season', which is © The State of Queensland, Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries