Available wild-caught, it is a bottom-dwelling marine fish found in deep water mainly on the upper continental slope at 200-700m and caught mainly in the South East Trawl Fishery off the southern coast of NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and SA, with the largest catches off western Bass Strait and Tasmania. Immature fish can be found inshore and occasionally in large estuaries.
Blue Grenadier and its Macruronidae relations are found only in the Southern Hemisphere.