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Plankton are small or microscopic organisms, both plant and animal, that drift on the ocean currents.
Resource type: Fact SheetLast updated: 09.06.2022
Found in the western tropical Pacific, coral trout are prized for their striking appearance and large mouths.
Resource type: Fact SheetLast updated: 09.06.2022
Prized by recreational fishers for their impressive size and delicious taste, green mud crabs are targeted by fishers throughout tropical Australia.
Resource type: Fact SheetLast updated: 09.06.2022
Found across tropical Australia, Blackspot tuskfish are a hard fighting and highly prized table fish, popular with recreational fishers as they can be caught close to shore.
Resource type: Fact SheetLast updated: 09.06.2022
With their goggling, oddly placed eyes and their whisker like pectoral filaments, blue threadfin are one of the weirder looking Western Australian fish species.
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
This worksheet is associated with the Lesson: Ageing fish
Resource type: Student WorksheetLast updated: 26.05.2022
The 'marine heat wave' that was observed off the coast of Western Australia in the summer of 2010/11, saw ocean waters around the mid-west coast rise more than 3 degrees Celsius above average. Learn more about this from this poster.
Resource type: PosterLast updated: 25.05.2022
Students will identify fish adaptations and discuss how these may help the fish survive in its habitat.
Resource type: LessonLast updated: 12.04.2022
Hammerhead sharks are easily identifiable by their distinctive hammer-like heads.
Resource type: Fun Fact SheetLast updated: 12.04.2022
White sharks are warm blooded. They have a heat-exchanging circulatory system that allows them to maintain their body temperature above that of the surrounding seawater. This allows them to swim at high speeds through cooler water.
Resource type: Fun Fact SheetLast updated: 12.04.2022
The Western Australian marine environment is home to a number of species that are protected under international agreements and national or state legislation.
Resource type: Field GuideLast updated: 12.04.2022
A population is the number of animals inhabiting a specific area. To manage the marine environment effectively, marine managers need to know the size and composition of animal populations.
Resource type: Fact SheetLast updated: 07.04.2022
Students will conduct a fish dissection to examine and identify the internal anatomy of a bony fish and learn how these features enable the fish to survive.
Resource type: LessonLast updated: 06.04.2022
Students will explore the diversity of marine life on Ningaloo Reef.
Resource type: LessonLast updated: 06.04.2022
Students will locate Western Australia's aquatic bioregions, major centres of Western Australia and the location of key marine habitats on a map.
Resource type: LessonLast updated: 06.04.2022
Students will engage in a shared reading of the Western Australian children’s story, Jinormous Jack.
Resource type: LessonLast updated: 06.04.2022
This student resource sheet is associated with the Lesson: What's this fish?
Resource type: Student Resource SheetLast updated: 30.03.2022
Students will create a fish print using a species of bony fish.
Resource type: LessonLast updated: 30.03.2022
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