Publication Date

10-2025

Series Number

354

Publisher

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australian Government

City

Perth

ISBN

ISBN: 978-1-925415-42-1 (Print), ISBN: 978-1-925415-43-8 (Online)

ISSN

ISSN: 1035-4549 (Print), ISSN: 2202-5758 (Online)

Abstract

The Western Australian Recreational Abalone Fishery (RAF) operates in shallow coastal waters as a hand collection fishery while wading or diving. Three species of abalone are allowed to be caught. Roe’s abalone (Haliotis roei) are generally collected while wading from the shore in accessible nearshore reef complexes along the West and South Coast Bioregions. Greenlip abalone (H. laevigata) and Brownlip abalone (H. conicopora) are collected while wading (including snorkelling and freediving) and diving (using compressed air) predominantly along the South Coast Bioregion.

Recreational fishing for the three abalone species is licensed and highly regulated, especially in the Western Zone (which includes the Perth Metropolitan Roe’s Abalone Fishery) where fishing is only permitted for a one-hour period on four days per year. The northernmost part of the Western Zone (the Mid-West Region from Moore River to the Greenough River Mouth) was also open to recreational fishing for the 2024/25 fishing season for the first time since 2011.

Number of Pages

42

Keywords

recreational fishing, Western Australian Recreational Abalone Fishery, RAF, abalone, South Coast Bioregion, Western Zone

Disciplines

Aquaculture and Fisheries | Environmental Monitoring | Natural Resources and Conservation | Sustainability

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