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25.01.2022 New post up on the blog by Teaniel Mifsud from UOW: University of Wollongong, Australia who is starting a research project exploring the perceptions and behaviours of ocean-users in relation to human-shark encounters on the Illawarra/Shoalhaven coast of NSW. Part of the project involves recording experiences and encounters with sharks via an easy to use interactive map. If you would like to record your own experience follow this link: https://arcg.is/1CS80y0 Link to the blog ...post: https://fishthinkers.wordpress.com//mapping-human-shark-e/ Grey nurse shark photo by Aristo Risis (https://aristorisi.com/)

22.01.2022 This is an #argonaut, aka the paper nautilus. It's an #octopus that lives in a shell. For a long time scientists were divided: did it move into a shell like a h...ermit crab or make its own shell? To find out, someone had to invent the #aquarium. It was Jeanne Villepreux. Jeanne Villepreuxa French seamstress turned marine biologistinvented the aquarium. It was the 1830s, and at the time most science was done using preserved/dead specimens. Her idea was, "Let me observe them while they're alive let me put them in a glass case with water" For her experiment she made tiny holes in the shells and watched the octopus for up to six hours at a time. And she saw with her own eyes that it used its two front arms to secrete something to repair the damage she had done. So that marked the first known use of a glass aquarium AND she was the first to demonstrate that the argonaut does indeed make its own shell. The female argonauts make these shells and they lay their eggs in there and protect their young in them as they float about the open ocean. Read more: https://www.sciencefriday.com//the-seamstress-and-the-sec/ : @NOAA

22.01.2022 This sighting & description of 50+ #orca working together to hunt a juvenile #bluewhale (yesterday off Western Australia) is quite something...definitely worth a read.

18.01.2022 A recently published scientific paper using one of the most comprehensive data sets of rocky reef fishes along the NSW coastline covering most of the NSW #MarinePark system. The study demonstrates the amazing responses by snapper across the NSW coastline with increases of up to 200% more snapper in sanctuary zones than the other zones. Interestingly, the effects of other species on reefs (20 40 m deep) were relatively small (~11% increase). These data also suggest that the ...peak snapper abundance and fish diversity occur around the Port Stephens region (Manning bioregion). The paper is open access so have a look at the abundance patterns for a wide range of species here: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3447 Photo credit: Dr. David Harasti #nswmarineestate #nswmarineparks

16.01.2022 Our paper "The devil in the deep: expanding the known habitat of a rare and protected fish" has just been published. The paper, a collaboration between researchers from UOW Research, University of Sydney, UNSW and the NSW Department of Primary Industries, is short, open access and free to download - no specialist knowledge is needed to understand the paper, so we encourage everyone to check it out directly here https://doi.org/10.2478/eje-2018-0003 (Photo by co-author John ...Turnbull: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). In brief: in this Natural History Report we use remotely deployed video to show that despite many reef fish being listed in scientific references as occurring only down to ~30 m, many of them are found much deeper than this - including the rare and protected Eastern Blue Devil Fish. We suggest that is likely because SCUBA is a common sampling method on complex reef and is mostly focused on safer shallow water (less than 30 m) and because commercial fishing (e.g. trawling) avoid these reefs for fear of damage to gear. The result is that most reefs deeper than ~30 metres are rarely sampled and a lot of species on these reefs are likely to have been missed by science, even just off heavily populated coastlines - the paper provides a number of examples using remote video samples and recreational fishers observations and catch records. UOW Research UOW Science, Medicine & Health UOW: University of Wollongong, Australia University of Sydney UNSW Marine Explorer Australian Society for Fish Biology Australian Marine Sciences Association The FSBI International Fisheries Section of AFS 97.3 ABC Illawarra Society for Conservation Biology - Marine Section IMCC: International Marine Conservation Congress Ecological Society of Australia Save Our Seas Foundation The Nature Conservancy Australia Remember The Wild Australian Wildlife Society https://content.sciendo.com//journ/eje/4/1/article-p22.xml https://doi.org/10.2478/eje-2018-0003

15.01.2022 Manta Bommie, north Stradbroke island. QLD Australia This was taken free diving at around 7 metres depth. The current rips through this place at times so it’s hard to get a good shot, but it’s insane none the less!

12.01.2022 Today a Humpback Whale survived a Killer Whale attack for the first time ever recorded in the Bremer Canyon. A truely incredible encounter of perseverance and d...etermination as the Humpback fought for his life and won Check out The Daily Whale https://whalewatchwesternaustralia.com//humpback-survives/ #JoinThePod #WhaleWatchWesternAustralia #WhaleWatchQueensland #WhalesGoldCoast #LearnTheLanguageOfTheWhales #WhaleWatchWA #WesternAustralia #BremerBayKillerWhales #BremerBay

10.01.2022 You win some...you lose some! Great photo!

07.01.2022 So who knew these existed? - Long beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis tropicalis). This particularly pod was observed in the Andaman Sea off Thailand where the sub-population appears to have particularly long beaks.

06.01.2022 'We're back after being shut down as a news page (?) there for a bit. Here's Barbara with our first completed saw display at the recent Threatened Species Conference. More to come this week!' - Sharks And Rays Australia

02.01.2022 Nom nom nom*. Stay well back from the humpback... *no one injured. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moUzR9hbfeA