A noxious fish is one that has been declared as harmful under Queensland law because it is, or may become, a pest to native aquatic communities.
Noxious fish have characteristics which are detrimental to other fish, aquatic habitats or humans.
Queensland has added the National Noxious Fish List to its existing legislation.
Noxious fish cannot be kept, hatched, reared or sold, or taken home for eating or any other purpose.
Penalties of up to $200,000 apply.
Noxious Fish |
 |
Aba Aba |
 |
African Butter Catfish |
 |
African Lungfish |
 |
African Pike |
 |
African Pike - Characin |
 |
African Tigerfish |
 |
Airbreathing or walking catfish |
 |
Alligator or armoured gars |
 |
American (Mississippi) paddlefish/Chinese swordfish |
 |
Angler or squarehead catfish |
 |
Banded jewelfish |
 |
Bighead carp |
 |
Bluegill |
 |
Bowfin |
 |
Brook Stickleback |
 |
Candiru |
 |
Carp |
 |
Catla Carp |
 |
Chameleon Goby |
 |
Chinese Weatherfish |
 |
Climbing Perch |
 |
Copper Mahseer |
 |
Cornish Jack |
 |
Electric Catfish |
 |
Electric Eel |
No Image |
Flatnose Catfish |
No Image |
Forktail Lates |
 |
Fourspine Stickleback |
 |
Freshwater Minnow |
 |
Gambusia |
 |
Giant Barb |
 |
Giant Cichlid |
 |
Grass Carp |
No Image |
Happys |
 |
Labeo |
 |
Largemouth Bass |
 |
Mahseer |
 |
Marble Goby |
 |
Mrigal |
 |
Nile Perch (Live) |
 |
Ninespine Stickleback |
 |
Pike & Pickerels |
 |
Pike Characin |
 |
Pike Killifish |
 |
Piranhas (Subfamily Serrasalminae) |
 |
Purpleface Largemouth |
 |
Pygmy Sunfish |
 |
Red Swamp Crayfish |
 |
Ripsaw / Thorny Catfish |
 |
Shiners |
 |
Silver Carp |
 |
Snakeheads |
 |
South American Tigerfish |
 |
Southern Redbelly Dace |
 |
Stinging Catfish |
 |
Tiger Catfish |
 |
Tilapia |
No Image |
Ubangi Shovelnose Catfish |
 |
Valencia Toothcarp |
 |
Wels Catfish |
 |
Yellowfin Goby |
|
