The Queensland DPI&F Long Term Monitoring Program (LTMP) commenced monitoring rocky reef fish in July 2006. The fishery-dependent program uses a range of sampling strategies to collect length, age and sex data representative of the retained catch of multiple sectors of the rocky reef fish fishery. The sampling strategies and sampling events are not limited to rocky reef fish, but are also used to collect data for a number of other finfish fisheries monitored by LTMP. Target species from the rocky reef fish fishery include snapper (Pagrus auratus), pearl perch (Glaucosoma scapulare) and teraglin (Atractoscion aequidens). Data on several other species, including black kingfish - ‘cobia’ (Rachycentron canadum), amberjacks (Seriola dumerili, S. rivoliana, Seriolina nigrofasciata), Samson fish (Seriola hippos), and yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi), are collected opportunistically. The shared sampling strategies include: “commercial catch sampling” either directly from fishers or at seafood processors; “boat ramp surveys”; “charter boat catch sampling”; and a “keen angler program”.