New FAD Locations

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New FAD Locations

Please be advised that the 2018/19 Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) season has commenced with the recent deployment of the North and Mid North Coast FADs.

FAD Location

Latitude (S)

Longitude (E)

(1)Tweed Heads

28° 09.730′

153° 41.000′

(2) Byron Bay

28° 36.723′

153° 42.758′

(3) Ballina

28° 54.430′

153° 41.189′

(4) Evans Head

29° 06.400′

153° 36.200′

(5) Yamba

29° 36.755′

153° 29.187′

(6) Wooli

29° 52.703′

153° 26.117′

(7) Coffs Harbour

30° 14.858′

153° 21.605′

(8) Nambucca

30° 39.622’

153° 08.934’

(9) South West Rocks

30° 50.534′

153° 11.803′

(10) Port Macquarie

31° 24.567′

153° 04.725′


The remaining FADs will be deployed progressively south, with all FADs in the water by December. We will keep the DPI website up to date as more FADs are deployed.

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