Shark Bay Shark Ark Project in Shark Bay, Western Australia, Australia | Environmental conservation organisation

Shark Bay Shark Ark Project

Locality: Shark Bay, Western Australia, Australia

Address: The High Seas 6537 Shark Bay, WA, Australia

Website: http://www.sharkarkproject.com

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25.01.2022 Broccoli for dinner..forever Shark Bay greenthumbs you just have to love the spring abundance in Shark Bay! This year we have our first apple crop..., loquats, nectarines, avocados, mangoes, wompis, mandarin limes, lemons, kusabe limes, figs, blueberries, passionfruit, black mulberries and White shatoot mulberries all somehow growing through our hot windy summers! We would LOVE to see some of your Shark Bay green thumb (and sore back ) success photos!! Also if you guys are looking for some pretty epic inspiration then remember our mate Dan Paris (heartthrob from Neighbours, McLeods Daughters and The Heights as well as our drone pilot for Blue Planet 2). He has just started a CSA (community sourced agriculture) gardening channel and it is some of THE best gardening binge watching we have seen! They only have three 15minute episodes so far but they are AWESOME! It includes heaps of great gardening tips, fishing and diving, rock wall building and pretty amazing community building content! Share it amongst your garden loving friends and family and give their YouTube channel a like at the link below https://youtu.be/bXhX-p6Ic3A

21.01.2022 Updated now 94, 548 have signed add your name here https://aph.gov.au/petition_list?id=EN1938 #MurdochRoyalCommission #MurdochMafia

16.01.2022 HALVE YOUR CATCH-SAVE OUR FAMILIES-SAVE OUR BAY Due to Covid travel restrictions. fishing families holidaying in Shark Bay have tripled and they aren...t going home. For many of them it is their first visit to our home and they are loving it. We are loving having them and we WANT them to come back but their presence and actions are also killing our home. We don’t think they are bad people, we just don’t think they understand how fragile our home is. We need our governments help. It is time our laws were reviewed. Creating sanctuaries and halving our fishing catch is actually NOT about protecting fish..thats just a bonus! It is in reality about protecting our FAMILIES and ensuring those tourist families will continue to come back for generations to come. It is about saving our commercial fishing, recreational fishing and tourism industries from extinction by protecting our threatened sea grass meadows and fish stocks. What most tourists don’t know is that we lost almost half of our sea grass meadows in 2011 due to a massive and unprecedented heat wave. Thirty three councils across Australia have now declared a climate emergency due to similar events. Our Bay is suffering. We lost five THOUSAND years of sea grass growth, forever, in one week. An area the size of the ACT. It is these meadows that support our $2.4 Billion dollar recreational fishing industry and keep our economically critical $40 million dollar commercial fisheries operational. The sea grass also keeps our $100 MILLION dollar Monkey Mia Dolphins alive.. THAT is what we are fighting to save. Half of our precious meadows are gone. Its getting hotter. Fishing tourist numbers are at record highs and increasing. We are on the brink. Its time to stand up and fight for our home. There is no time left. We have to do everything we can. Healthy oceans need FiSH. Healthy fisheries need seagrass. Healthy communities need people. PLEASE HALVE YOUR CATCH IN SHARK BAY MARINE PARK EDIT** The bag limits are NOT going to be halved. The current proposal is to have the bag limits remain the same, but have the possession limit changed to 10kg rather than 20kg. So your daily bag limit won’t be affected. If 4 licensed fishers go out on a boat for the day, they can still catch 20 Demersal fish and 12 pelagic species (mackies and tuna etc) 40 crabs and 120 whiting. There is no plans to change that. And THATs the catch just for one day. #Halveyourcatch #SaveOurSeagrass #Fishforthefuture #WorldHeritageMarinePark #BluePlanetGreenSeas #Wherethelocalsarefriendly

15.01.2022 Have you ever wanted to be a marine researcher and participate in a scientific expedition? Science Under Sail provides a unique opportunity to participate in a ...research project and conduct seagrass surveys in Moreton Bay under the guidance and mentoring from marine scientists. You learn how to conduct habitat surveys and organise the data, get a lot of hands-on experience in snorkelling, sailing and life on a sailing catamaran, encounter some amazing marine creatures and have a lot of fun. Check out our summer programme with upcoming trips in Moreton Bay in December 2020 and January 2021. The programme is designed for senior high school and university students, for more information email [email protected] #scienceundersail #snorkelling #sailing #marineresearch #seagrass #habitatsurveys #moretonbay #citizenscience #scienceisfun

13.01.2022 Brenda Wilkinson Thanks so much for sharing this. It is one of the reasons we (and Sir David Attenborough) are fighting so hard to create Australia’s largest shark sanctuary. Not only are they vital to our ecology they are pretty amazing from a tourism perspective as well. And once you learn to love something or or starts to pay your mortgage the conservation of it comes naturally. These are a mix of nervous sharks, small fin whalers and lemon sharks mostly! We know almost nothing about these annual aggregations except that they are getting smaller and smaller every year whilst recreational fishers continue to call for Shark culls and commercial shark fishing to be reintroduced to our marine Park home. Hope you had a great holiday and thanks again for sharing!

11.01.2022 How incredible is this?! This video of a shark swimming through bioluminescence was captured last night at Bellerive on Hobart's Eastern Shore. : Shiblii Reza Ahmed

10.01.2022 How well do you know some of the mackerel sharks found in the world? Check out the Sharklife ID Course: This course aims to develop basic shark identification s...kills for recreational divers. This is not an exhaustive ID guide but rather a focus on the simple at first glance features of several shark’s species to aid in quick identification. A combination of photographs and detailed illustrations are used to highlight the main ID features of each of the 27 species in the course. https://learn.sharklife.co.za/index/courses/shark-id-course #Sharklife #MarineInternships #SharkConservation

10.01.2022 Fantastic! Great to see people out enjoying our home and it’s natural beauty, taking nothing and leaving only footprints Great video! Glad you saved your drone and your kayak

09.01.2022 OzFish is kicking off their 2020 SEEDS FOR SNAPPER Seagrass Weekend with a free community dive day on Friday, Nov 20. We need certified OW divers to collect sea...grass fruit between 8am - 11am to help restore the lost seagrass meadows in Cockburn Sound. BYO dive gear and we will provide collection nets and eskies to transport the fruit back to the Sound Boat Club and grab some yummy free BBQ lunch after. See more

09.01.2022 On the subject of the North West Shark plague.. My family has lived and fished in Shark bay for over one hundred years. In my own life I have worked commercially on wetline snapper boats, prawn trawlers, crab boats, seine net fishing boats, octopus boats and mackerel boats. I presently own five recreational vessels and fish and hunt to feed my family. I spearfish, netfish, potfish for crays and crabs as well as wetline for demersals and trawl for Pelagics. I also provide ...Continue reading

03.01.2022 LIMIT YOUR CATCH! Don’t catch your limit!! (Please comment on the original post below.. our community is fighting to save our reefs from a massive covid based tourism surge of recreational fishers that look like they will CONSERVATIVELY remove over one MILLION kilos of fish this year from our World Heritage listed marine Park home)

01.01.2022 Sir David Attenborough calls for better protection of sharks within our marine park home and this is the response..