Fishing limits
Size limit: No minimum legal limit
| Fishing zone | Daily bag limit | Daily boat limit |
|---|---|---|
| Spencer Gulf | 1 | 3 |
| Gulf St Vincent and Kangaroo Island | 1 | 2 |
| All other waters | 1 | 3 |
Species with combined daily fishing limits
- Bigeye Thresher
- Black Stingray
- Broadnose Sevengill Shark
- Bronze Whaler Shark
- Common Thresher
- Dusky Whaler Shark
- Melbourne Skate
- School Shark
- Shortfin Mako
- Smooth Hammerhead Shark
- Smooth Stingray.
Fishing gear restrictions apply to metropolitan shark fishing.
Find out the rules and handling guidelines for fishing for sharks and rays.
Identification
Sevengill Sharks have:
- a blunt snout
- greyish brown or black back, sometimes with dark spots or blotches
- 7 gill slits
- extremely long lobe on their upper tail.
They can grow up to 4.8m.
Habitat
Sevengill Sharks are usually in tropical and temperate continental and insular shelves and upper slope waters.
They are commonly found between 100 m and 400 m but have been caught to a depth of 1000 m.