You can now get all your fishing rules in a mobile-friendly format that can help identify your catch.

We have revamped the recreational fishing rules on our website with information on more than 180 individual species and groups of species found in WA.

Everything you need to know about a fish species is available, including clear and detailed fish illustrations to help confirm what you've caught, bag and size limits, and information about seasonal closures and licences.

It's now easy to access the rules by location, from the spot where you are fishing or for where you intend to fish, and nearby marine protected areas are highlighted through interactive maps. More.

The popular Peel-Harvey blue swimmer crab fishery has achieved a worldwide gold standard for sustainable fisheries management.

It is the first combined recreational and commercial fishery, anywhere, to earn the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) tick of approval – considered globally as the highest benchmark for ecologically sustainable fishing.

The MSC tick shows that the prized fishery shared by recreational and commercial fishers is well managed, ensuring there will be plenty of crabs for the future – thanks in no small part to recreational fishers sticking to the rules! More.

Pink snapper fishing in Shark Bay gears up in the next few weeks with the Eastern Gulf reopening to fishing again on 1 August following the annual closed season.

Freycinet Estuary is closed to pink snapper fishing from 15 August to 30 September (inclusive).

Fishers heading to Shark Bay need to be aware of rule changes for pink snapper in the inner gulfs that were introduced this year, including the removal of the maximum size limit and a new possession limit in the new Freycinet Estuary Management Zone.

Be sure of the difference between any green and brown mud crabs you catch as they have different size limits.

Normally caught from Shark Bay to the Northern Territory border, if a mud crab is smaller than 150 mm wide (green) or 120 mm wide (brown) you must release it immediately.

Although similar in appearance, there are key differences between their spines and claws. More.

This year, recreational fishers enjoyed bending their rods into plentiful numbers of western Australian salmon in the metropolitan area and all along the west coast. Some salmon were even being caught as far north as Exmouth – the furthest north the species has ever been recorded.

Following this extraordinary run, our latest monitoring results showed that fishing pressure is currently having a minimal impact on the stock, which is great news for salmon fishers. More.