Top 50 Commercially Caught Fish Families

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(all methods)
Penaeidae - penaeid prawns
Palinuridae - spiny lobsters
Scombridae - mackerels and tunas
Clupeidae - herrings, sardines, pichards and sprats
Macruronidae - hakes and southern hakes
Mugilidae - mullets
Haliotidae - abalones
Arripidae - Australian salmons
Pectinidae - scallops
Portunidae - swimming crabs
Centrolophidae - trevallas
Platycephalidae - flatheads
Sillaginidae - whitings
Xiphiidae - broadbill swordfishes
Trachichthyidae - roughies and sawbellies
Carangidae - trevallies and jacks
Sparidae - breams
Serranidae - freshwater perches, temperate basses and rockcods
Raninidae - spanner/frog crabs
Lutjanidae - fusiliers, seaperches and tropical snappers
Miscellaneous Cartilagenous Fish - 1
Berycidae - redfishes, nannygais and alfonsinos
Lethrinidae - emperors and seabreams
Centropomidae - snooks and barramundi, and glassfishes
Emmelichthyidae - bonnetmouths
Caesiondae, Lutjanidae - fusiliers, seaperches and tropical snappers
"class" Pisces - fishes
Triakidae - hound sharks
Ophidiidae - aphyonids, live-bearing brotulas and lings
Donacidae - pipis, surf clams
Molluscs, Miscellaneous
Polynemidae - threadfin salmons
Cheilodactylidae - morwongs
Ommastrephidae - flying squids
Hemiramphidae - garfishes
Carcharhinidae, Hemigaleidae - whaler and weasel sharks
Scyllaridae - shovel-nosed/slipper lobsters
Oreosomatidae - oreodories
Boney Fish, Miscellaneous
Octopodidae - octopuses
Zeidae - dories
Solenoceridae - penaeid prawns
Carcharhinidae - whaler and weasel sharks
Gempylidae - black mackerels, snake mackerels and gemfishes
Loliginidae - squids
Squalidae - dogfishes
Istiophoridae - marlins and sailfishes
Kyphosidae - drummers and sweeps
Sepiidae - cuttlefish
Crustacea, Miscellaneous