Fisheries research projects

Australia’s fishing and aquaculture resources are among the best managed in the world.

Basement Jacks - Where’s your stock at? calls for commercial, recreational anglers and rangers to become citizen scientists and to donate Mangrove Jack filleted frames, complete with gills and guts to help maintain and improve sustainable resource management.

What do I need to do?

Your unwanted Mangrove Jack filleted frames, guts and gill samples can be dropped off at the following participating tackle stores:

Participating stores:

• Fishing and Outdoor World Darwin
• Craig's Fishing Warehouse.
• Complete Angler and Camping World Darwin

We encourage anglers to send a pic with their Mangrove Jack gills and guts, along with Reidy’s lure, to help spread awareness.

Tag us in @FisheriesNT to get featured on our social media.

What do I get in return?

Anglers get a free Reidy’s lure when you drop your Mangrove Jack guts and gills off to the tackle shop mentioned above.

Anglers also get the satisfaction of being a citizen scientist and participation to ensure Australia’s fishing and aquaculture is sustainably managed for future generations.

Monthly draw to win a bespoke Basement Jacks: Where’s your stock at? shirt.

About Basement Jacks: Where’s your Stock at?

Mangrove Jack samples are vital to help researchers with this two-year sustainable resource management project.

The project aims to get better data about ‘stock structure’ to better understand the species’ movements to improve sustainable fishing.

Samples will help researchers understand how to support sustainable management of fish resources and provide more data on levels of connectivity between populations.

The nation-wide FRDC funded project is in close collaboration with Fisheries NT, Aboriginal Ranger Groups, inter-state universities and the Amateur Fisherman’s Association Northern Territory (AFANT).

For more information about Mangrove jack, go to the Northern Territory Government website.