About the Qld eFisher app
The free Qld eFisher app allows commercial fishers to use a mobile device to:
- report notices and catch data
- access information linked to your licence.
Who can use this
Eligible fisheries:
- A1: Aquarium fish fishery
- A2: Aquarium fish fishery
- C1: Crab fishery (other than spanner crab)
- C2: Crab fishery (spanner crab)
- C3: Crab fishery (spanner crab)
- D: Coral fishery
- R: Crayfish and rock lobster fishery
- N10: Net fishery (east coast—no. 4)
- N11: Net fishery (no. 11)
- N15: Net fishery (management region 5)
- NX: Net fishery (limited life—management region 2 to 4)
- L1: Line fishery (other than Great Barrier Reef region)
- L2: Line fishery (reef)
- L3: Line fishery (reef)
- T1: Trawl fishery
- T2: Trawl fishery
- T4: Trawl fishery (fin fish)
- M1: Moreton Bay trawl regions
- M2: Moreton Bay trawl regions
- T5: Trawl fishery (river and inshore area 1)
- T6: Trawl fishery (river and inshore area 2)
- T7: Trawl fishery (river and inshore area 3)
- T8: Trawl fishery (river and inshore area 4)
- T9: Trawl fishery (river and inshore area 5)
Not eligible:
- B1: Beche-de-mer fishery (east coast)
- E: Adult eel fishery
- JE: Juvenile eel fishery
- J1: Trochus fishery (east coast)
- W1: Worm fishery (beachworm)
- W2: Worm fishery (bloodworm)
- Y: Yabby fishery
- F: Shell fishery
- G: Shell grit fishery
- H: Star sand fishery
- P: Pearl fishery
- O: Oyster fishery
- K1: Net fishery (ocean beach area 1)
- K2: Net fishery (ocean beach area 2)
- K3: Net fishery (ocean beach area 3)
- K4: Net fishery (ocean beach area 4)
- K5: Net fishery (ocean beach area 5)
- K6: Net fishery (ocean beach area 6)
- K7: Net fishery (ocean beach area 7)
- K8: Net fishery (ocean beach area 8)
- L4: Line fishery (Gulf of Carpentaria—Spanish mackerel and other fin fish)
- N3: Net fishery (Gulf of Carpentaria—no. 1)
- N11: Net fishery (Gulf of Carpentaria—no. 11)
- N12: Net fishery (Gulf of Carpentaria—offshore)
- N13: Net fishery (Gulf of Carpentaria—offshore)
- L8: Line fishery (multiple hook - east coast)
- Fishing operations that tranship their fish
- Charter fishery
How to access
Download the free Qld eFisher app via the App Store or Google Play.
Complete the set-up checklist before you use the Qld eFisher app for the first time on a fishing operation.
What you can do
- customise reporting
- view licence and fishery symbol details
- check quota use
- manage vessel tracking units
- report trip notices
- submit logbooks.
Contact us
- Email efisher@daf.qld.gov.au
- Last reviewed: 19 Apr 2024
- Last updated: 19 Apr 2024