Fish
Barramundi
Barramundi (Lates calcarifer) has three names in the Kuku Yalanji dictionary: judi, murrabal and kudi, which belong to different dialects[1]. It is a big silver fish of the estuaries, mangroves and rivers, and the young fish run far up into fresh water[2]. Kuku Yalanji fishermen took fish with spears, including the many-pronged yirrmba, and with plant poisons, hook and line, bark nets and earth-oven cooking[1][3][4].
Hann River Cape York
Possum People's country on the upper river and Thaypan (Kuku Thaypan) country downstream: stringybark and bloodwood woodland and a spring-fed sandy river that runs north-east from the Great Dividing Range, past the Peninsula Developmental Road, into Rinyirru (Lakefield) and the North Kennedy. Not Kuku Yalanji country: the Kuku Yalanji words on this page are the dictionary's, not the Hann's own languages. Place guide
Barramundi is the big fish of this country. The Federal Court recorded a Possum man of the upper Hann 'fishing for barra'[24], and a Thaypan man said: 'We get wallaby, barramundi, freshwater fish and turtles and mussels'[25]. Kuku Thaypan has a name for the big fish and another for the small[26]. Downstream in Rinyirru (Lakefield), barramundi is 'the most sought after' of all the fish anglers catch[27].
Where it lives here
The Hann is a long way from the salt. Its water reaches Princess Charlotte Bay through the North Kennedy and the Normanby[28][29], and barramundi breed on the estuary mudflats (see Seasons above). The fish of the Hann are the ones that have come up the river. The Atlas of Living Australia holds only 2 barramundi records (1984 and 2024) in a box of about 90 × 85 km around the middle Hann, Laura and western Rinyirru[30]: the fish is common, but few people log it. In Lakefield's rivers the barramundi fishery is 'centred on the extensive freshwater habitats in the hinterland', and the rivers become 'a series of isolated freshwater waterholes and lagoons during the dry winter months'[27].
Its year here
In the wet (December to March) the rivers flood out over the plains[29], the time when barramundi push upstream into fresh water (see above). The Hann itself never stops: its gauge has not recorded a day without flow since 1968, and by September–November it is a low, clear run between deep holes[31]. In the Lakefield anglers' survey of 1986–91, catches per hour 'fell in March and then gradually increased to a peak in May', then dropped away for the rest of the dry[27].
How people fished it here
Today's families. Possum: 'fishing for barra, jewfish, catties and spotties'[24]. Thaypan: 'We get wallaby, barramundi, freshwater fish and turtles and mussels'[25]. A Kuku Warra man of the Laura country told the Court of fishing for 'swordfish, stingray, barramundi, jewfish, spotties and rifle fish'[32].
The law of the catch. The Kuku Warra rule is to sing out to the old people before fishing, and 'we must always leave three or four fish on the banks'[32]. Kuku Thaypan law also says where barramundi may be eaten, and by whom: some places are not for pregnant women[26]. That knowledge belongs to the Elders.
Roth, about 1900 (Princess Charlotte Bay and its rivers)[3]:
- Hook and line. 'At Princess Charlotte Bay, and along the rivers flowing into it', the hook (Koko-wara terwa) was a tapering pencil of hard wood with a pointed slip of emu, brolga or kangaroo bone bound on at a very acute angle with kangaroo-tail tendon and grevillea gum. The line was palm-fibre twine.
- Nets. In the hinterland of the bay the big oval nets (Koko-wara arwi-a) were framed in lawyer cane, about 2½ by 5 feet, and 'worked by two boys, their friends in front acting as "beaters"'.
- Spears were thrown at a fish in sight, or at random into muddy water (see above)[4].
Safety here
Barramundi holes are crocodile holes. Both crocodiles live in this river system, and in 2023 a Laura man was taken at Kennedy Bend, downstream[33]. Rinyirru's rules: 'always stand a few metres back from the water's edge and never stand on logs or branches overhanging the water', and 'never clean fish or discard fish scraps near the water's edge'[34].
On country today
The Hann drains east to Princess Charlotte Bay, not to the Gulf[28], so the ordinary Queensland fresh-water closed season applies: 1 November to 31 January[22]. The upper Hann is the Possum People's country and the middle and lower Hann are Thaypan country, both recognised in November 2023[24][25]. Rinyirru's busiest times are 'the start and end of the barramundi season', and Traditional Owners 'use the park to camp, fish and hunt'[35].
Language
Kuku Thaypan (Awu Alaya) names the barramundi by size: Nhye wayaeng for a large fish (over 50 cm) and Nhye dulka for a small one (under 50 cm)[26]. The Hunter-Gatherer Language Database gives a third Kuku Thaypan word, albeng, for the barramundi[36].
Upper Mitchell Western Yalanji
Western Yalanji country west of the Great Dividing Range: dry open woodland cut by the sandy, paperbark-lined upper Mitchell River, around Karma Waters and Mount Carbine. Place guide
Barramundi also live in the Mitchell River system on Western Yalanji country, where wet-season floods carry them up into fresh water[18]. The Gulf of Carpentaria closed season, which covers the Mitchell, runs from 7 October to 31 January[22].
A word to check here
The English word 'barramundi' is also one of the common names of the Gulf saratoga (Scleropages jardinii), a quite different fish that lives through most of the Gulf of Carpentaria drainage and across northern Queensland[5]. When a Western Yalanji speaker gives you a word for 'barramundi', check which fish they mean.
Signs here
- Big wet years mean more and bigger barramundi in the Mitchell, and fish that go up into fresh water grow faster than those that stay on the coast[18].
- How far up? The Mitchell Falls is named as a natural barrier, and this far upstream barramundi are thin; ask the Traditional Owners which pools hold them[18][37].
Where it lives here
Barramundi are part of the Mitchell River system. Griffith University's study of the Mitchell found that barramundi which move into fresh water in the wet season grow faster than those that stay on the coast, and that big wet years produce more and bigger barramundi[18]. How far up the river they reach in a given year depends on the floods and on natural barriers; the study names the Mitchell Falls as a natural barrier to fish moving upstream[18]. Ask the Traditional Owners where barramundi are found near you.
On country today
The Mitchell River system is in the Gulf of Carpentaria fresh waters, where the barramundi season is closed from 7 October to 31 January[22].
Western Yalanji native title was recognised in August 2026 over 170,827 ha; the Western Yalanji rights include fishing[38].
Eastern coast Eastern Kuku Yalanji
Eastern Kuku Yalanji country: rainforest, beaches, mangroves, reef and the short steep rivers from the Daintree to the Bloomfield and the Annan.
On Eastern Kuku Yalanji country barramundi live in the estuaries, mangrove creeks and lower rivers, and Roth recorded how Bloomfield people made their fish spears and poisoned fish[4][3].
Where it lives here
On Eastern Kuku Yalanji country, look for them in the estuaries, mangrove creeks and lower rivers from the Daintree to the Bloomfield and Annan.
How it was caught here
Spearing (Bloomfield River)[4]:
- The many-pronged fish spear had (usually) four prongs morticed into the shaft, each with a wooden barb.
- On the Bloomfield it was made of a light wood, preferably grass-tree. Roth was told it was first brought in from outside, but it had been made locally since before 1885.
Fish poison (Bloomfield River)[3]:
- Hammer bark of Barringtonia racemosa between stones until it is spongy.
- Take it into the water and rub it there with your hands.
- The fish are stupefied in about a quarter of an hour and can be picked up.
A second Bloomfield poison: tie fruit of Diospyros hebecarpa (Roth's Koko-yellanji name ngam-boi) into long bundles, warm each bundle over a fire, then squash it in the water[3].
On country today
Eastern Kuku Yalanji native title was recognised in August 2026 over about 217,884 ha, from the Annan River to the Daintree River[39].
Everywhere
Names
The dictionary has three words for barramundi[1]:
- judi, marked as the Yalanji dialect word, with murrabal given as the Nyungkul equivalent;
- murrabal, also marked Yalanji, but with kudi given as the Nyungkul equivalent;
- kudi, 'barramundi', with no dialect marked.
The two cross-references do not agree, so the dictionary cannot settle which dialect owns murrabal. Speakers of Yalanji and Kuku Nyungkal are the right people to sort it out. Fish in general is kuyu, and a good fisherman is mala-kuyu[1].
Description
A long, powerful fish, silver to greenish-grey or greyish-blue, with a distinctly concave head profile, a pointed snout, a big mouth, brown to dark grey fins and a pale belly. Its eye glows bright red in torchlight at night[2]. Barramundi commonly reach 150 cm and can reach 200 cm. They eat mainly fish and crustaceans; the young also eat insects[2].
Barramundi change sex. Most start life as males and turn into females at 3–5 years old, so small fish are almost all males and the very big fish are all females[2]. That is why the law protects the biggest fish.
What it can be confused with
- Gulf saratoga: also big, silvery and a surface hunter, but with a flat back, a sharply upturned mouth, huge scales and a long low back fin; it cruises just under the surface for insects[5].
- Sleepy cod: a thick, mottled, big-mouthed fish of the snags, but rounded in the tail and never silver[6].
- Big sooty grunter: dark, deep-bodied and thick-lipped; a barramundi is long, silver and has that dished forehead[2][7].
The concave head, the big mouth and, at night, the red eyeshine are the barramundi's marks[2].
Signs
- Red eyes in the torchlight. A barramundi's eye glows bright red at night; that is how they are counted and found in the dark[2].
- Snags, undercut banks and overhanging plants in the upper reaches are where the juveniles live[2].
- The run upstream. After the wet, young barramundi move back up the rivers with the mullet and the young cherabin, in April and May[8][9].
Where it lives
Barramundi live in coastal and estuarine waters, often around mangroves, in clear or muddy water. Some run far upstream and some spend their whole lives in fresh water; juveniles live in the upper reaches of rivers around undercut banks, sunken logs and overhanging plants[2].
Who eats whom, and when
Where the barramundi is present it is the top fish of the waterhole. It eats 'just about anything that lives in or around water, including insects, spiders, crocodiles, prawns, fish and each other'[10]. The size of the prey follows the size of the fish; a big barramundi's diet is about 60 per cent fish and 40 per cent crustaceans, mostly prawns[10]. In the Mitchell diet studies, prawns featured prominently in barramundi as in the pool's other big fish, and the giant river prawn is called a critical prey species for it[11][12]. On the floodplain in the wet, the big fish feed mostly on floodplain food, and come back to the river pools carrying it[13].
Barramundi eat barramundi. When one year's young are numerous, they eat the next year's recruits[10]. The sex change (males first, females after three to five years) means the biggest fish in a pool are all females, and the most valuable to leave[2].
Who eats the barramundi. Small ones feed the freshwater crocodile, which takes more fish as it grows[14], the darters and cormorants[15], the mouth almighty and sleepy cod at night[16][6], and bigger barramundi. Adults answer only to the saltwater crocodile and to people.
Hour and season. The sources used here do not give the barramundi a timetable in the way the research gives the catfish and the prawns theirs; what they do say is that its prey, the prawn, is out on the sand at night and in cover by day[17][9], that the fish holds in snags and undercut banks[2], and that its eyes are counted by torch after dark[2]. Fish the snags at dusk and after dark, and expect the fish to follow the floods: it moves up into fresh water on the wet-season rises and back down to the salt to spawn between September and March[18][2].
Seasons
Barramundi migrate from fresh water down to shallow estuarine mudflats to spawn between September and March, with peaks in November–December and February–March[2]. In the Gulf of Carpentaria they spawn over spring and summer, October to March[18]. The wet-season floods are when barramundi push upstream into fresh water[18].
The dictionary records the dry-season fishing time: bark nets were 'dragged through the water in the dry season when the water goes down'[1]. Across North Queensland, Roth recorded that fish could be hunted at any time of year, and that the bush fences and stone dams were built for the falling water after floods[3].
Uses
Barramundi is a prized food fish. The Kuku Yalanji fishing kit, as recorded in the dictionary and by Roth, includes[1][4]:
- Spears: kalka (fishing spear, and the general word for spear), yinba (fish spear), yirrmba (many-pronged fish spear) and jindal (spear with three prongs). Roth recorded kalka as the general word for spear on the Bloomfield, and gave the Bloomfield name for the many-pronged fish spear as yirmbua (his 1909 spelling).
- Nets: makarr (fish net), woven from strips of ngunyin bark or from warrur bark.
- Hook and line: badur, as in ngayu badurriji bundanday 'I'm fishing (sitting with hook and line)'. Bait is mandurr.
- Fish poison: the sap of the miyil tree, 'used to blind fish'.
Food rules. On the lower Tully River (far to the south, not Kuku Yalanji country) barramundi was one of the sea foods forbidden to young people before initiation[19]. The dictionary records no barramundi rule for Kuku Yalanji.
How it was caught and cooked
Spearing (Princess Charlotte Bay and the Tully). Roth recorded how the many-pronged fish spear was used around Princess Charlotte Bay: thrown at a fish in sight, or, in a muddy water-hole, here and there at random on the chance of a hit[4]. On the lower Tully River men crept up on barramundi lying among the snags, or dived, and struck them from the side or from underneath[3].
Muddying the water, which Roth found everywhere he went[3]:
- Stir up a small, shallow pool with your feet.
- Spear or club the fish as they rise to the surface.
Fish poison. The dictionary's miyil sap was smashed under water, with the person wrapping it in grass to keep the sap off their skin and eyes[1].
Nets. Roth wrote that around 1900 fish-nets were not used at Cape Bedford, on the Bloomfield or on the Endeavour River[3]. The dictionary, from later Bloomfield speakers, records makarr 'fish net' and bark nets 'dragged through the water in the dry season when the water goes down'[1]. Inland, Roth found that the Koko-yellanji people of the Laura used an oval-framed net they called jikan-ikan (his 1901 spelling). Nets of that kind, framed in lawyer cane, were carried upright through the water by two people while friends in front drove the fish towards them[3].
Killing the catch. A common North Queensland way to kill a fish was to bite it deeply just behind the head, so it could not flip back into the water once thrown on the bank[3].
Cooking. Small fish are simply roasted on the coals, dindal 'to roast on coals'[1]. Roth found shrimps, and on the Tully small fish, wrapped in wild-ginger leaves for baking[3]. His account of the earth oven (kurrma) at Cape Bedford and on the Bloomfield, written for meat, goes like this[3]:
- Heat a number of stones well in a fire, then rake out the stones and ashes and quickly dig a hole where the fire was.
- Line the bottom with leaves of the wild gingers.
- Lay in the food and pack the hot stones and ashes around it.
- Cover with more leaves or tea-tree bark, then a layer of earth and stones, and leave it to bake.
Safety
Barramundi water is crocodile water. Queensland's Crocwise advice for fishing is[20]:
- Stand back from the water's edge, never on logs or branches over the water, and keep something solid like an esky between you and the water.
- If your lure snags, cut the line. Don't wade in after it.
- Never clean fish or throw scraps at the water's edge or a boat ramp.
- Take extra care at night, dusk and dawn.
The plant poisons described above are poisons. Miyil sap can blind[1]. They are recorded here as history, not as a method to use.
On Country today
Recreational rules (Queensland). Barramundi must be between 58 and 120 cm, with a limit of 5 per person, or 10 per boat with two or more people aboard[21]. Closed seasons protect spawning fish. In Gulf of Carpentaria fresh waters, the season is closed from 7 October to 31 January. In all other Queensland fresh waters it is closed from 1 November to 31 January. A few listed dams are exempt, and during a closed season you cannot target barramundi even for catch-and-release[22].
Native title. Under section 211 of the Native Title Act 1993, native title holders fishing for personal, domestic or non-commercial communal needs do not need the licences and permits other people need[23]. Visitors need the Traditional Owners' permission to fish on their country. Each place above says whose country it is.
Language
kuyu 'fish'; mala-kuyu 'good fisherman'; damal 'to spear'; mumal 'to throw a spear with a woomera'; mandurr 'bait (any kind)'; wuwu-damaji 'to go back all the time to the same place, as a good place to fish'[1].
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