Pink snapper Closure –
Cockburn and Warnbro Sounds

Map of Cockburn Sound Closure Area

1 October - 31 January

Cockburn Sound is the site of the largest known aggregations of pink snapper in the West Coast Bioregion and is thought to be critical to the maintenance of adequate breeding stocks of these long-lived and slow growing fish.

It is illegal to be in possession of pink snapper while fishing in the waters of Cockburn and Warnbro Sounds during the closed season. However pink snapper taken outside of the Sounds may be transported through, and landed within, Cockburn and Warnbro Sound during the closed season.