Demersal closure species

Fishing for, being in possession on a boat or landing demersal scalefish in the West Coast bioregion is prohibited from:

• 1 February to 31 March (inclusive)
• 1 August to 15 September (inclusive)
• 15 October to 15 December (inclusive).

*Note this does not apply to land based recreational line fishers who can fish all year round.​

Baldchin groper Choerodon rubescens

Tuskfish Choerodon spp. includes these commonly caught species:

• Blue tuskfish
• Darkspot tuskfish
• Purple tuskfish
• Blackspot tuskfish
• Bluespotted tuskfish

Barramundi cod Cromileptes altivelis

Blue morwong (queen snapper) Nemadactylus valenciennesi

Cods* Family Serranidae includes these commonly caught species:

• Breaksea cod
• Estuary cod/orange spotted cod
• Malabar cod
• Grey banded rockcod
• Rankin cod
• Harlequin fish

Also includes:

• Coral cod
• Chinese Footballer
• Barber perch
• Black rock-cod
• Black banded seaperch
• Dusktailed groper
• Flowery cod
• Frostback cod
• Hexagon rockcod 
• Honeycombed cod
• Longfinned rockcod
• Large–spotted rockcod
• Red seaperch
• Red-lined seaperch
• Reef cod
• Six-banded rockcod
• Spotty seaperch
• Speckled-fin rockcod
• Splendid perch
• Small toothed cod 
• Strawberry rockcod
• Maori cod
• Tomato cod 
• Three-lined cod
• Yellow spotted cod
• Western, leopard and orange lined wirrah

Coral trout Plectropomus spp. includes these commonly caught species:

• Coral trout
• Polkadot cod
• Barcheek coral trout
• Vermicular cod

Coronation trout Variola louti

Dhufish, West Australian Glaucosoma hebraicum

Emperors and seabream* Family Lethrinidae includes these commonly caught species:

• Spangled emperor
• Red throat emperor
• Robinson’s seabream
• Blue-lined emperor (black snapper)

Also includes:

• Ambon Emperor
• Black blotched emperor
• Grass emperor
• Long-nosed emperor
• Large-eye bream
• Longfin emperor
• Spot cheek emperor
• Smalltooth emperor
• Purple headed emperor
• Variegated emperor
• Threadfin emperor
• Thumbprint emperor
• Orange-striped emperor
• Humpnose big-eye bream
• Long-spined snapper
• Yellowlip emperor
• Yellow-tailed emperor
• Naked-headed seabream

Foxfish Bodianus spp. includes:

• Western foxfish

Pigfish Bodianus spp. includes:

• Blackspot pigfish

Hapuku Polyprion oxygeneios

Bass groper Polyprion americanus

Trevalla Family Centrolophidae includes:

• Blue-eyed trevalla
• Spotted trevalla
• Warehou

Red snapper Family Berycidae includes:

• Bight redfish
• Swallowtail
• Red snapper

Pink snapper  Pagrus auratus

Tropical snappers and sea perch* Family Lutjanidae includes these commonly caught species:

• Red emperor
• Crimson sea perch
• Saddletail snapper (scarlet sea perch)
• Darktail sea perch
• Moses’ snapper

Also includes:

• Pearl perch
• Black spot sea perch 
• Green jobfish
• Indian sea perch
• Maori sea perch
• Ruby snapper
• Pale snapper
• Paddletail
• Goldband snapper
• One spot sea perch
• Rosy snapper
• Chinaman fish 
• Lunartail sea perch
• Red bass
• Rusty jobfish
• Tang’s snapper
• Sharptooth job fish

Western blue groper Achoerodus gouldii

*More species exist under these families of species that are found in tropical waters to the north and are rarely captured in the west coast. However, the family classification means they are covered in these groups if they are captured in the west coast bioregion during the closure.​​​