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27/12/2004: "QLD Groper ............(overseas name: grouper)"
The giant Queensland Groper. Once found as far south as Jervis Bay NSW. Heavily spearfished into near extinction in semi-tropical northern NSW. Now protected. Anti-shark powerheads fitted to spearguns (not handspears) sped-up the decline in the 1960's.
