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GRAND CATCH: Angler's big barra payday at Lake Awoonga

Angler scores $1000 for hooking fish his mate caught nine months earlier.

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07th Feb. 2020 5:02 PM

Gold Coast angler Dean Silvester with his prize winning barra.

Locals snappy at thieves who knicked their crocodile

Police are investigating the theft of a pet crocodile named Snappy Tom and a 60cm barramundi from a school aquarium.

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29th Jan. 2020 6:01 PM

Police are investigating the theft of a pet crocodile named Snappy Tom and a 60cm barramundi from a school aquarium.

Throw a line, Barra bash is back bigger, better than ever

Council pledges $5,000 towards the event

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24th Jan. 2020 10:01 AM

Despite windy conditions, Craig Griffiths and Karim De Ridder won the 2019 Fitzroy River Barra Bash fishing tournament after catching 11 fish which measured 770 metres at Port Alma.

Beach ‘croc’ found to be another kind of marine creature

Reports of a saltwater crocodile trapped in the stinger net this morning triggered the launch of an eye in the sky to...

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22nd Jan. 2020 11:01 AM

How fish releases could turn tide on region’s tourism

A Mackay community group fighting against the scourge of invasive fish has almost reached a big milestone.

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04th Jan. 2020 10:01 AM

Oscar Tweedle, 14, Flynn Pertsch, 9, and Toby Pertsch, 6, release Barramundi fingerlings into the Mackay Gooseponds. Picture: Tony Martin

Monster 60kg barra lassoed at Kinchant Dam

‘I couldn’t even lift it’: Enormous fish found dead on a day out at the dam.

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30th Dec. 2019 2:12 PM

Jesse Bradford next to the enormous fish.

Barramundi released into Gooseponds

MAFSA releases barramundi fingerlings into the Gooseponds.

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20th Dec. 2019 5:12 PM

Shark caught in illegal fishing net

A shark has been found tangled in an illegal fishing net in a creek south of Mackay

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16th Dec. 2019 2:12 PM

Queensland Boating and Fisheries Patrol officers in Mackay have removed an illegal gill net that was blocking a narrow section of Alligator Creek, near Mackay.

‘Barra tragic’ catches elusive $1k Hook Up fish

The Hook Up volunteer has caught the first pink tagged barramundi - and on his birthday.

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10th Dec. 2019 5:12 PM

Earl Haigh has caught one of the pink tagged Barramundi released during the Boyne Tannum Hook Up worth $1000.

9000 barra released into waterways

Thousands of fingerlings help boost native fish stocks in dam and rivers in fight against invasive pests.

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30th Nov. 2019 7:11 AM

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