The results revealed Granddad was born in the Burnett River, and he lived to the incredible age of 109. According to the AnAge online database , only 11 other fish species live longer than the
Australian (Queensland) lungfish is the country's oldest freshwater fish which can breathe air like a land dweller.
Haikouichthys, from about 518 million years ago in China, may be the earliest known fish.
Ichthyostega lived between 370 to 362 million years ago. Their extinction was due to a large-scale fish extinction about 360 million years ago. This extinction event caused a reset to the evolution of life on earth.
Coelacanths first appeared during the Devonian Period roughly 400 million years ago, about 170 million years before the dinosaurs.
The Aboriginal people of coastal Sydney had their own names for the different species of fish, some of which were recorded by First Fleet officers. The general name for fish was maugro. Only two of the fish seen caught or eaten were named by the British colonists - these were bream and mullet.
The newly described species is a type of grouper and has been christened Epinephelus fuscomarginatus. Back in 2000, Queensland Museum fish expert Jeff Johnson was shown photographs of a mystery grouper by a fisherman.
A fossil fish that predates dinosaurs and was thought to have gone extinct has been found alive in the West Indian Ocean off the coast of Madagascar. The fish named coelacanth was accidentally rediscovered by a group of South African shark hunters, according to reports.
SNAPPER. One of Australia's most popular recreationally-caught fish.
Fishing began early in Van Diemen's Land. Though it is unknown whether the Aborigines ate scale fish, they certainly ate shellfish.
Stonefish are the most venomous of all fishes. They are found throughout shallow coastal waters of the northern half of Australia. Bullrout are responsible for most fish stings that occur in upper tidal reaches and freshwaters of New South Wales and Queensland.
Sink your face beneath the water's satin surface and you'll discover a living universe – including, if you're fortunate, the world's biggest fish, the endangered whale shark, flanked by convoys of reef fish heralding its arrival.
Indigenous communities knew the outback and were to track food sources as well as the best ways to hunt those food sources.” Barramundi fish was a main food source for Australia's first peoples but at the time, Anglo Australians were far from interested in consuming it due to its muddy taste and difficulty to catch.
Fish were taken with nets (some over a mile/1.6 km in length), traps, spears and hook-and-line. Fishhooks made of wood, stone, bone, ivory or shell, based on designs developed over many thousands of years, were used as lures (pä kahawai, pohau mangä) or suspended hooks (matau).
Aboriginal People of coastal Sydney collected and ate many different types of shellfish and crustaceans.
Sooty Grunter are a tropical freshwater species present in Queensland and the Northern Territory. Sooty Grunter are fiercely aggressive and dirty fighters that are arguably one of Australia's most powerful fish. Pound for pound, these tropical terrors would pull almost any fish backwards!
In other words the climbing perch can walk between waterholes. Or, flop rather. Waltham says the climbing perch can also breathe air and even live out of water for up to six days. And those spines, they're not just for walking.
Choosing fish
In Australia, tuna, salmon and kingfish are commonly used for sashimi in Japanese restaurants. But some of the best seafood varieties for sashimi in this country are: scallop, squid, tuna, trevally, kingfish, bream, bonito, garfish, whiting, flounder, flathead, snapper and even leatherjacket.
Carp is a restricted noxious fish under the Biosecurity Act 2014. You must not keep, feed, give away, sell, or release carp into the environment without a permit. If you catch these species, you must immediately humanely kill and dispose of them responsibly away from the waterbody.
The Australian Aboriginal People were not generally cannibals, in that they did not kill people to eat. Where cannibalism does occur it is in a ritual context, if the reports of early workers in the field are accurate. Burial cannibalism, in a number of forms, occurred fairly commonly in Aboriginal Australia.
Common animals that were hunted and eaten by Aboriginals included Kangaroos, Wild Turkeys, Possums, Emus, Anteaters, Lizards and Snakes.