Species that are listed as threatened, and migratory species listed under international agreements are protected as matter of national environmental significa...
The Scalloped Hammerhead Shark, Sphyrna lewini. Image: CSIRO
Many species of sharks and rays are slow-growing, long-lived, and have low rates of reproduct...
Seabed features such as canyons, seamounts, banks
and shoals provide aggregation points for ocean (pelagic) predators such as tunas and mackerels.
Predictio...
Many animals and plants live attached to the seabed where they form benthic habitats used by a diversity of other species.
These habitats can be affected by ...
IMAGE: Fieldwork on the Adelaide River. Catches of Speartooth Shark were highest in the Adelaide River, with the South Alligator River and Queensland’s Wenl...
IMAGE: Peter Kyne.
Largetooth Sawfish (Pristis pristis), Speartooth Sharks (Glyphis glyphis) and Northern River Sharks (Glyphis garricki) are being studie...
IMAGE: Acoustic and satellite tagging were used to trace White Shark movement patterns, identify habitats, examine growth rates and explore population stru...
Advanced genetic and statistical techniques have been combined to develop a reliable way of monitoring rare but wide-ranging species such as sharks and sawfish ...
IMAGE: A juvenile Largetooth Sawfish. The sawfishes were arguably the most threatened family of marine fishes globally, with all five species globally Crit...
