Know Your Fish

Queenfish

Ken Holley with Queenfish

Giant Queenfish Scomberoide scommersonnianus There are four types of queenfish present in Australian tropics but the two mainly encountered by most fishermen, these are the Giant Queenfish Scomberoide scommersonnianus and the Lesser Queenfish Scomberoides lysan. They are one of the…

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Saratoga

Scleropages jardinii There are two species of Saratoga found in Australia – Scleropages jardini and the Scleropage leichardti. The distribution of the two species is quite different with the generally larger jardini found in the Northern Territory from the Gulf…

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Flounder

Large tooth flounder

Often misidentified as sole, the two flounder we are most likely to encounter in our area are the Small-toothed Flounder (Pseudorhombus jenynsii) and the Large-toothed Flounder (Pseudorhombus arsius). Flounder prefer areas of mixed sand, weed and rock with good numbers…

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