Use the Qld eFisher app

Only commercial fisher licence holders in control of a fishing operation can use the app.

You can choose to use Qld eFisher OR continue to use AIVR and paper logbooks – you can’t use both.

What you can do

Read the app user guide for instructions on how to complete these actions.

Customise reporting

• Save preferences (e.g. GPS coordinates format and regular disposal methods)
• Receive Fisheries Queensland notifications (including reminders about upcoming fishery closures and alerts about competitive fishery closures)

View licence and symbols

• Commercial fisher licence details
• Primary commercial fishing licence details
• Associated fishery symbols
• Boat marks

Check quota use

• Available quota balance
• Total quota used for the season

Manage vessel tracking units

• Check the status of vessel tracking devices assigned to an active primary commercial fishing licence
• Manually report your primary vessel’s location if the tracking unit fails (this feature uses location maps and spatial data)

Report trip notices

• Pre-trip notice
• Prior notice
• Emergency notice
• Weight notice
• Retained fish notice
• Amending notice
• Submit days not commercially fished outside of fishing operations

Report catch disposal

• Follow the steps in the Help menu
• Read the catch disposal record instructions
• Catch disposal records are automatically emailed to recipients of the fish at the first point of disposal (e.g. wholesale buyers, storage, consignment)

Submit logbooks

• Daily effort and catch logbooks
• Interactions with threatened, endangered and protected animals
• Follow the steps in the Help menu or read the logbook instructions

Operating in remote locations

You can use the app when you are in a remote location or have limited mobile signal reception.

To do this, you will need to ensure you start and end your commercial fishing trips in areas with data connectivity.

Privacy

The app requires your personal information to function; however, use of the app and its features is voluntary and you can enable or disable some of the functions.

If activated, the app will need to access:

• your GPS location, where GPS is used for vessel tracking manual reporting (optional)
• your email address to email a catch disposal record to recipients of fish to first point of disposal (e.g. wholesale buyers, fish not sold/stored, consignment).

Read the privacy statement for details on how the app accesses your personal information.

If your device or the app stops working

If the app or your device malfunctions:

• record your report details in another format (e.g., hard copy or electronically), and
• report via the AIVR system (using your commercial fisher licence number and PIN).

Contact us

• Email efisher@daf.qld.gov.au.
• Send a message to 0468 574 078 (SMS/MMS message service only).