Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour

It provides large sheltered mooring areas and wharf space for vessels up to 60 metres (200 ft), refuelling facilities and support services to the Fremantle fishing industry.

The harbour was built in 1919 when a 300-metre (980 ft) breakwater was constructed from Anglesea Point at the southern end of Bathers Beach, to provide an anchorage for fishing vessels.

South Jetty was immediately adjacent and included a fish market, which was removed in 1929.

[1] A southern breakwater was constructed in 1962 and land reclaimed to house fishing companies and service industries.

Many of the fishing enterprises housed at Fremantle are descended from the Italian towns of Molfetta on the Adriatic Sea, and Capo d'Orlando in Sicily.