The school holidays are almost here — and there’s one thing you’ll be able to do with your kids over the two-week period before it closes.
Troy de Ruyter
A humble family-run shop on Middleton Beach can now boast the title of best fish and chips in the country, winning the title at the national awards ceremony on Thursday.
Melissa Sheil
Two Camillo men have been fined after using illegal fishing nets to catch crabs in the Peel-Harvey Estuary.
Rachel Fenner
Higher fish stocks than expected being relinquished from the commercial sector mean recreational fishers will get an extra two weeks to cast a line for demersal species.
Jake Dietsch
What was meant to be a family’s regular day of hunting small sharks off the coast of Denmark quickly turned into a fierce battle between man and fish.
Harry Grigson
Young Great Southerners are being urged to wet a line when Recfishwest begins their tour along the WA southern coastline teaching budding anglers the basics of fishing.
Fresh WA seafood will be the highlight of many family gatherings this Christmas. West Australians can buy or catch some of the world’s best seafood, including our unique local species.
Darryl Hockey
WA’s nascent octopus industry has the potential to expand and grow in a way not seen since the early days of the State’s lucrative western rock lobsters, according to two seafood industry advocates.
Cheyanne Enciso
Outraged fishing charter and tackle shop operators are demanding a rethink of the new demersal fishing bans, saying the rules are destroying their livelihoods.
Rebecca Le May
Several weeks ago, I called out the McGowan Labor Government for not releasing the socioeconomic impact studies it had undertaken to help it justify the establishment of the South Coast Marine Park.
Colin de Grussa
Fishing expert Scott Coghlan reveals the best spots to cast your line across Western Australia.
Scott Coghlan
Margaret River’s David Pickersgill and his son Aiden had a memorable fishing trip near Augusta.
Scott Coghlan reveals the latest Catch of the Week, profiles Shimano’s new range of reels, and shares this week’s best spots to drop a line.
Fishing editor Scott Coghlan reveals the best spots to land a catch across Perth and beyond.
Thousands of keen abalone divers have been blessed with near perfect conditions at Perth beaches for the third hunt of the season.
Phil Hickey
Youngster Kiylah Agrela is obsessed with fishing — despite having never done it before.
Although he doesn’t own his own boat, Warrenup’s Mitchell Holdsworth is a keen offshore angler who loves getting out into the deep blue to catch some quality bottom fish.
An extra $1.5 million is being injected to set up more popular fishing devices to help recreational fishers along the WA coast this year, including off Jurien Bay.
Staff reporter
People have been urged to use caution after an estimated 12,000 blowfish washed up in Lancelin Bay, 120km north of Perth, in a fish kill event.
A survey by the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development revealed the most popular catch for recreational boat fishers in WA.
Jamie Thannoo
Kathryn Dyball nearly went home empty handed, until she hooked a spanglie that ended up as dinner that evening.
A western suburbs council is set to come under pressure to ban shark fishing, but fishers dispute the practice is luring the predators closer to the shore.
A trip 300km out of Broome proved a success after a rare catch made it’s way onto the boat.
An ‘education campaign’ urging boaties to use life jackets has been launched after the State Government failed to implement laws making the safety devices compulsory more than a year after they were flagged.
Josh Zimmerman