page_title: Fish in Australia
section_title: Species of freshwater fish
hierarchical_section_title: Fish in Australia / Species of freshwater fish
context_page_description: Australia has over 5000 described species of fish, a quarter of which are endemic. Seafood and aquaculture are major and highly regulated industries, and fishing for marine and freshwater native fish is popular.
context_section_description: For its land-size, Australia has a low diversity of native freshwater fish with only 281 described species.  This is largely because Australia is a very dry continent with sporadic rainfall and large areas of desert.
  The most common freshwater fish are:
  Murray cod
  Australian bass
  Other species include:
  Australian grayling
  Australian smelt
  Climbing galaxias
  Common galaxias
  Eastern freshwater cod
  Eel-tailed catfish
  Estuary perch
  Flathead galaxias
  Golden perch
  Halfbeak/Garfish
  Jardini
  Inanga
  Macquarie perch
  Mary River cod
  Mountain galaxias
  Queensland lungfish
  Rainbowfish
  Retropinnidae
  River blackfish
  Saratoga
  Salamanderfish
  Short-finned eel
  Sleepy cod
  Trout cod
  Two-spined blackfish
  Western carp gudgeon
caption: A Murray cod
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