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Do you go fishing for Mulloway along Victoria’s coast?
As the peak body for Victoria's recreational fishing, VRFish are calling on recfishers to have your say in our latest survey and let us know if you support the Victorian Fisheries Authority’s proposed
Mulloway Improvement Program and changes to Mulloway regulations.
The survey will only take a few minutes to complete and will
close 11:59pm on Thursday 30th July 2026.
Background
Mulloway are a highly regarded sportfish, targeted by recfishers along the Victorian coast – including Gippsland and Glenelg River estuaries as well as the Yarra and Maribyrnong river systems in Port Phillip and Western Port – and the species can reach 150cm and 30kg or more.
For those who know where to find them, mulloway are a fantastic target species for both catch and release and to keep for the dinner table.
The Victorian Fisheries Authority’s proposed Mulloway Improvement Program includes a range of short, medium and long-term actions to improve the quality of the mulloway fishery. It includes changing the bag limit for Mulloway from 5 to 2 per person per day and increasing the minimum size limit from 60cm to 70cm as well as restarting a mulloway tagging program and a stocking trial.
Over recent years, passionate mulloway recfishers have voiced opinions that the current bag limit of five mulloway is too high and consider it as being more than a reasonable day’s take. Additionally, increasing the minimum size limit from 60cm to 70cm will give the species around 10 months further protection in estuaries and algin the limit with New South Wales.
The commercial harvest of mulloway in Victoria is currently around 50kg annually. However, in years where mulloway numbers are prolific the commercial harvest is higher.
According to Victorian Fisheries Authority, the proposed Mulloway Improvement Program will better reflect recfisher views of a reasonable day’s harvest, reduce local depletion of mulloway in rivers and estuaries and improve the quality of the mulloway fishery.
