Table 1. Common species of reef fishes at the Palm archipelago and their importance to spearfishers and linefishers (based on data from [4]).

Taxa	Importance tospearfishing	Importance tolinefishing	Min. legal size(cm total length)	Catch limit(per person)a
Coral trout, Plectropomus spp.	Primary target species	Primary target species	38	7 (combined for all species)
Stripey snapper, Lutjanus carponotatus	Opportunistic only	Secondary target species	25	5
Parrotfish, Scarus spp.	Opportunistic only	Not captured	25	5 (per species)
Bommie cod, Cephalopholis cyanostigma	Not captured	Bycatch (discarded)	38b	5 (combined for all rock cods)b
Rabbitfish, Siganus doliatus	Not captured	Not captured	none	none

^aIn addition to individual catch limits for each taxa, there is a combined catch limit of 20 for all coral reef fish [18].

^bBommie cod, a bycatch species, have a minimum legal size and catch limit by default under Queensland State law [18].