Numbers of Sydney’s beloved eastern blue gropers have been halved since 2008 as a likely result of climate change, bolstering the case for the NSW government to make its line-fishing ban permanent.

The NSW government has not confirmed if the total fishing ban will continue but DPI said a stock count of the species will be published later this year. When NSW's longest-serving premier dove ...

Six people have been fined for alleged illegal fishing practices on the Edward River between Deniliquin and Moulamein.

Dane Van Der Neut has been a commercial fisherman on the New South Wales Hawkesbury River for almost two decades ... "boom" of the species has made fishing almost impossible.

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