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Poacher turned gamekeeper
Open Forum | December 13, 2023A QUT researcher has suggested a technology widely used by fishing fleets to attract open ocean species could be used in Marine Protected Areas to protect, conserve and sustain exploited fish species.
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There’s something fishy about our seafood
Open Forum | September 14, 2022Numerous studies have found that much of our seafood is not what it purports to be, but a new analysis technique developed by Australian scientists could help track down the fraudsters.
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Fish get a helping hand
Lachlan Gilbert | December 24, 2020Engineers and scientists at UNSW Sydney have come up with an ingenious way to get fish past dam walls, weirs and other barriers blocking their migration in Australian rivers.
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Australian carp virus plan ‘dead in the water’?
Open Forum | October 23, 2020UK researchers say that the Aussie government’s plan to release a virus into our waterways to kill off non-native carp is unlikely to work, and should be tossed overboard.
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The freshwater fish facing extinction
Open Forum | August 17, 2020Twenty-two native freshwater fish are likely to become extinct within the next twenty years, unless there is new conservation action to save them, according to a national assessment published in Pacific Conservation Biology.
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More fishing boats are chasing fewer fish
Open Forum | May 29, 2019A new analysis of global fishing data has found the world’s fishing fleet doubled in size over the 65-years to 2015 but for the amount of effort expended the catch fell more than 80 per cent.
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Have you seen a sawfish?
Niall Byrne | January 11, 2019People around Australia are being urged to recount their encounters with sawfish to chart the decline of the magnificent but threatened species around Australia.
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A helping hand for freshwater fish
Open Forum | September 4, 2018A research team from the Threatened Species Recovery Hub has made a discovery that could help boost the dwindling numbers of many Australian freshwater fish species.