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Catch of the Harbour

The people who lived around the shores of Port Jackson caught only a few of the hundreds of fish species that we now know inhabit Port Jackson. The most commonly caught were Snapper and Yellowfin or Eastern Black Bream. Others include Dusky Flathead, Eastern Blue Groper, Yellow-tail Kingfish, leatherjacket, luderick, morwong, mulloway, rock cod, tarwhine, whiting, wirrah, wrasse and possibly shark.





Images from: Roughley TC (1963) Fish and Fisheries of Australia. From the collection of the Australian Museum Research Library