Victoria's southern shores meet Bass Strait — a productive zone for southern rock lobster, scallops, abalone, and a long history of estuarine fishing.
Victoria's southern shores meet Bass Strait — a productive zone for southern rock lobster, scallops, abalone, and a long history of estuarine fishing.
6 fishing regions have their own profile inside Victoria.
Lakes Entrance is Victoria's largest fishing port — home to a multi-species trawl fleet landing flathead, gummy shark, prawns, and scallops to the Melbourne market.
On Victoria's Great Ocean Road, Apollo Bay is a small but historically vital port for southern rock lobster and abalone divers working Bass Strait.
Portland's deep-water port supports an offshore fleet targeting deep-sea fish, southern rock lobster, and historic abalone fisheries off the south-west Victorian coast.
Melbourne's harbour bay is a leader in low-impact aquaculture — blue mussels grown on long-lines and an active restoration of the native flat (Angasi) oyster.
A large tidal embayment east of Melbourne with a small mussel industry, recreational fishing, and significant Ramsar-listed wetlands.
Australia's largest navigable inland waterway is connected to Bass Strait at Lakes Entrance — supporting prawn, calamari, and bream commercial fisheries plus an enormous recreational scene.