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With their goggling, oddly placed eyes and their whisker-like pectoral filaments, threadfins are one of the weirder looking Western Australian fish species. Find out more about the biology of these weird looking fish and the commercial fishery in this fact sheet.
Resource type: Fact SheetLast updated: 09.06.2022
Barramundi are a highly opportunistic, dominant fish species in many tropical rivers. Delicious to eat and thrilling to catch, they live in both freshwater and saltwater and eat just about anything.
Resource type: Fact SheetLast updated: 09.06.2022
Found in the tropical and warm temperate marine waters of the Indo-Pacific, many estuary cod are caught accidentally by anglers seeking mangrove jack and barramundi in creeks, or emperors over inshore reefs.
Resource type: Fact SheetLast updated: 09.06.2022
Owing to similarities in shape, adult herring can easily be confused with juvenile Australian salmon.
Resource type: Fun Fact SheetLast updated: 06.05.2020
The common name 'sweetlip' is used in the Indian Ocean Territories to describe a couple of emperor species - the orange-striped emperor and the yellowlip emperor.
Resource type: Fun Fact SheetLast updated: 01.04.2020
Seagrasses support highly productive and diverse ecosystems. These specialised marine plants are vitally important in the coastal environment because they are a source of food and shelter, oxygenate water, trap sand and recycle nutrients; and provide breeding habitats and nursery areas for many marine organisms.
Resource type: Fact SheetLast updated: 17.10.2019
Algae are an extremely diverse group of photosynthetic organisms that are the basis for almost all food chains in the world's oceans.
Resource type: Fact SheetLast updated: 22.08.2019
Mulloway is an aboriginal name meaning 'the greatest one' and growing to an impressive 30 kilograms, it's easy to see how they get their name.
Resource type: Fun Fact SheetLast updated: 20.08.2019
Where an animal lives (or its habitat) is very important, as it provides food, shelter and a nursery area where the animal can have offspring.
Resource type: Fishy Fun SheetLast updated: 07.06.2019
Where an animal lives (or its habitat) is very important, as it provides food, shelter and a nursery area where the animal can have offspring.
Resource type: Fishy Fun SheetLast updated: 07.06.2019
For a species to survive, it must reproduce successfully and in the ocean, as on land, this is not always easy.
Resource type: PosterLast updated: 06.06.2019
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