Available both wild-caught and farmed. It is a free-swimming marine fish found alone or in small schools mainly near the coast and around offshore islands and reefs in warm temperate waters from Rockhampton (Queensland), south to Shark Bay (WA), including Bass Strait and around the Tasmanian coast.
Mainly caught off NSW (November-March) and Queensland (April-August), with some off south-western WA, by handlines with lures or live bait and occasionally by droplines and demersal trawls.
Also farmed in Spencer Gulf (SA), mainly Port Lincoln and Whyalla, and most often marketed under its Japanese name ‘Hiramasa’. The yellowish tail distinguishes it among related fish and gives it its name.