Wild Shellfish Alert - Do not eat recreationally harvested mussels, oysters, clams, pipis, cockles, wedge shells abalone and scallop roe from in and around White Beach and Nubeena on the Tasman Peninsula (South East Tasmania).
weedy seadragon
Phyllopteryx taeniolatus
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An elegant orange-red seadragon with iridescent blue stripes on the body with other white spots and yellowish markings. A very long snout and an elongated body with leaf-like appendages.
Protected species. Do not take! If you encounter or accidentally catch a protected species, you must return it to where you found it regardless of whether it is dead or alive.
Level 3, 134 Macquarie St
Hobart TAS 7000
Phone: (03) 6165 3233, 1300 720 647
Email: fishing.enquiries@nre.tas.gov.au
GPO Box 44
Phone: (03) 6165 3000, 1300 368 550
Email: commercial.fisheries@nre.tas.gov.au
Level 1, 134 Macquarie St
Email: fishing.licensing@nre.tas.gov.au