Fish in the Burketown area waters:

Fish
Name
Legal
Size
Possession
Limit
Barramundi
60cm
5
Bream
23cm
N/A
Mud Crab
15cm
10
Coral Trout*
38cm
10
Emperor (Red)*
45cm
10
Emperor (Red Throat)*
35cm
10
Emperor (Spangled)*
40cm
10
Large-Scale Sea Perch (Fingermark)*
35cm
10
Giant Trevally
35cm
N/A
Grass Sweetlip
30cm
N/A
Grunter Bream (Javelin)
40cm
N/A
Jewel Fish
45cm
N/A
Jewfish
45cm
N/A
Mackerel (Spanish)
75cm
10
Mackerel (QLD School)
50cm
10
Mangrove Jack
35cm
N/A
Queenfish
N/A
N/A
Stripey
25cm
N/A
Salmon (King)
60cm
5
Salmon (Blue)
40cm
20
Tusk Fish (Black Spot)*
30cm
10
Tusk Fish (Purple)*
30cm
10
Tusk Fish (Venus)*
30cm
10

In possession limit refers to the total number of fish of that species that a person Species marked with an asterix indicate a combined limit of 30 applies.





Birds native to the Burletown area:
Pelicans, Coronant Little Pied, Pacific, Striated and Rufous Night Heron, Egret (Little and Great), Jabiru, Sacred Ibis, Grey Teal Duck, Kite whistling, White-bellied Sea Eagle, Brolga, Eastern Sarus Crane, Australian Bustard, Masked Lapwing, Red-kneed Dotterel, Silver Gull, Crested Pigeons, diamond, peaceful and bar-shouldered Doves, Galah, Red-winged Parrot, Cockatiel, Budgerigar, Brush Cuckoo, Coucal pheasant, Blue-winged Kookaburra, Red-backed, sacred and azure Kingfishers, Rainbow Bee-Eaters, Willy wagtails, Purple backed Fairy-wrens, Rufours-throated Honeyeater, Mistletoebird, Crimson, zebra and double-barred Finch, Woodswallow masked and Magpie

Links to other local sites:
www.burkeshirecouncil.com
www.burketowncaravanpark.com.au
www.savannah-aviation.com
www.dropbears.com

The Burketown area is famous
for its Morning Glory Cloud
formation