The Fish-LIGHT (Low Impact Gears and Harvest Technologies) project is a six-year package of work which aims to identify, trial and implement a range of innovative and alternative low-impact harvest technologies as replacements for gillnets in Australia’s inshore fisheries. The program has been developed in response to growing pressures on gillnets around the country due to threatened species interactions, and resultant prohibitions on use of gillnets across large areas of northern Australia. The alternative gear types in this program are not modifications to existing gears, but new gears to the fishery, with each evaluated to determine their triple bottom line (social, ecological and economic) credentials, before potential implementation within the fishery to sustainably harvest inshore resources. In this talk, we will outline the approach for transitioning to new gear types, and present preliminary data from a range of candidate gears (i.e. fish traps, line fishing, trap nets, tunnel nets).