Coral reef fish monitoring program

The coral reef fish monitoring program collects data on length, sex and age of fish caught by commercial and recreational fishers.

These species have been identified under the Sustainable Fisheries Strategy as priority for collecting better biological information:

• common coral trout
• crimson snapper
• red emperor
• redthroat emperor
• saddletail snapper
• spangled emperor.

Sampling

The data and samples are collected through:

• statewide recreational fishing surveys
• boat ramp surveys
• Keen Angler Program
• measuring live and dead commercially-caught fish at vessel unloads, exporters and seafood processors
• collecting fish frames from fishers, commercial exporters, seafood processors and the charter sector.

Regions

Sampling for each of the 6 species occurs regionally, along Queensland’s east coast.