Dr. Burrows said that all eel-tailed catfish are good to eat. Dr Damien Burrows, director of TropWATER at JCU, said the discovery of the new catfish species shows how little is yet unknown what lives in developed or populated watersheds. New species of hooked catfish in northern Qld The eel-tailed catfish is quite common in Australia, is found in eastern and western Australia and the Murray Darling. Researchers have long suspected that the North Queensland catfish is special, but detailed research was needed to prove that it was a unique species. The lead author of the current research was Stuart Welsh of West Virginia University and included researchers from JCU. Combined limit of a total of 5 fish in the general families Neosilurus, Tandanus and Neosiluroides (e.g. black, Cooper Creek, eel tail, false spine, short fins and Hyrtls Tandan) Dr. Burrows said the genetic analysis was first performed, suggesting that the north Queensland fish is a species in its own right. Then, hundreds of measurements of the size and shape of different parts and sections of the body, as well as comparisons with similar-looking species, confirmed that it is a separate species. However, the new species lives only in rivers in the humid tropics, but is widespread in the region.
With a length of up to 40 cm, the popular catfish is usually good to eat and is often targeted by fishermen. However, beauty is in the eye of the viewer for the new species of eel-tailed catfish, Tandanus tropicanus, found in the Tully River in northern Queensland. There is a general ownership limit of 20 for all freshwater species not listed on this page. Possession limit of 5 per person / 10 per boat (with 2 or more people on board Possession limit: The possession limit is the maximum number of fish per person if you have caught for more than one day, which is double the daily bag limit, unless otherwise stated in the table. The ownership limit also applies to the transportation and storage of fish, but not to the purchase of fish from a registered fish recipient, such as a fish shop. Combined limit of a total of 5 of these species (no more than 2 of these fish can be silver perch). 30 cm in listed dams, eastern dams and eastern rivers * In the snow-capped watershed, only fish caught and released are allowed Silver perch in the basins of the Paroo and Warrego rivers is a limit of bags of art not to be taken: the maximum number of fish per person per day. “There could be a hundred new species of freshwater fish that can be discovered in northern Australia, including large species that can be caught,” Professor Burrows said.
All (in all dams and weirs under the Seeded Retention Permit Program) Year-round in Eastern Rivers, Eastern Dams and Listed Dams 5 in Listed Dams and Eastern Dams, 2 in Eastern Rivers “Just because they have just been described as new does not mean that we were not aware of their presence before. We suspected that this was a new type of one we had caught, so we then conducted the taxonomic study to prove it. Mary River cod – no catch except upstream of some dams in its natural range, including the drainage division of the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Jacky Jacky River basin in the south to the Normanby River basin on the east coast of Queensland. The new species has a large head with small eyes and thick, fleshy lips on a mouth facing down. Beards in the shape of a mustache surround his lips. It is a firm, almost cylindrical fish, in which the back half of the body narrows into an eel tail. “This is a particularly interesting finding: the fact that we are still finding important new species near population centres like Cairns shows how little we know about northern Australia,” he said. The following types have a “possessed” limit of 20: JCU Media Liaison: Caroline Kaurila, Tel; (07) 4781 4586 or 0437 028 175 September to April in rivers under freshwater dams (fishing and release allowed from May to August). All year round in freshwater dams and rivers via freshwater dams Note to the media: above are some field photos of the new species and location on the Tully River, courtesy of TropWater. Line drawings by Stuart Welsh of West Virginia University “It`s not just in the wilderness of PNG and Congo that we find new species. Some can be found right under our feet near major centers in Australia.
(no catch except upstream of the walls of Cressbrook, Ewan Maddock, Hinze, Maroon, Moogerah, North Pine, Somerset, Wivenhoe and Wyaralong dams; Dyer Lakes (Bill Gunn Dam), Clarendon, Manchester and Kurwongbah (Sideling Creek Dam); Caboolture River weir; Enoggera Reservoir and Robina Lakes) Non-native Finnish fish species (except trout and salmon) Contains pees, mud snails and cockles. Oysters Oysters Download the Qld Fishing 2.0 app from the App Store or Google Play. Jungle perch and spotted flagtail (northern jungle perch). Longfin, Pacific Shortfin (South Pacific) and Southern Shortfin Dr. Burrows said the new species was caught by electric fishing during the study, and many were caught before being identified as a new species. (a) the Murrumbidgee River and its tributaries, with the exception of Old Man Creek, from the Hume Road Road Bridge in Gundagai to a line 100 m upstream of the weir weir spillway wall at Ganmain (b) the Murray River and its tributaries from the 130 under the Weir Hume Dam at Albury to the Newell Road Road Road Bridge at Tocumwal; All other waters in New South Wales are closed to the Murray crab fishery. (Queensland part of the Murray-Darling Drainage Division). * Note: Catfish can also be taken from eastern streams. 2 (one or more species), only 1 larger than 35 cm in rivers “A lot of people have been catching these fish for years and eating them without knowing they are a new species,” Dr. Burrows said.
Fishing in trout streams in general, artificial fly and bait streams, and trout spawning streams from the end of the June long weekend to the beginning of the October long weekend is prohibited.