Landing place and transport vessel codes for giving pre-trip, emergency and transhipment notices

Landing place codes

Registered landing places where catches are commonly landed have been assigned codes, which are required for reporting pre-trip, emergency and transhipment notices. These codes can streamline your reporting requirements, instead of manually entering the latitude and longitude for a landing place every time you report a notice.

Landing place definitions

If you are taking fish using a boat but not a beach seine net, the landing place is where the boat will be landed at the end of the fishing operation.

If you are taking fish using a boat and a beach seine net, the landing place is the beach or foreshore where the boat will be used to carry out fishing.

If you are taking fish without using a boat, the landing place is the place where the fish will be landed at the end of the fishing operation.

Search for a landing code

To search for an existing landing code in the table below, you can either:

• enter the locality you operate in or a keyword from the name of a landing place into the search field
• use the 'Next' button to search through the list manually.

The latitude and longitude are also provided for each landing place.

Note: If the details of a landing place listed in the table below are incomplete or incorrect (especially the latitude and longitude), phone 13 25 23.

Applying for a new landing code

If your preferred landing place does not have a landing code, you can apply for one by submitting a landing place code request form (PDF, 83KB).

To be considered a landing place, the Queensland Boating and Fisheries Patrol (QBFP) must be able to undertake routine inspections in compliance with fisheries requirements.

Note: If QBFP are not able to access a landing place to undertake an inspection, the fisher would be considered non-compliant and penalties may apply.

Fisheries Queensland will review each application. If the proposed landing place meets the requirements, a landing place code will be generated.

Landing facility information

• Landing facilities may carry restrictions for commercial fishing vessels under the Transport Infrastructure (Public Marine Facilities) Regulation 2011. Ensure you are familiar with this regulation before landing commercial fishing vessels in Queensland.
• Contact the manager of the facility to see if approval is required before using the facility to unload product.

Transport vessel codes

Below is a list of registered transport company vessels that are used to transport catches from fishing vessels in the reef fish, Spanish mackerel, coral, trawl (T1) and tropical rock lobster fisheries. These transport vessels have been assigned codes, which are required for completing a transhipment notice.

If you use a transport vessel that is not listed here, or if the details of the vessel are incorrect, phone 13 25 23.