NEWS

Albatrosses seen with a plastic bottle

Diving the “Troy D”

 

Climate Update – Struggling to limit global warming.

Leave only Bones

New Davis runway

Macquarie Island

Scientists try to ‘reseed’ reef

Rare skate in peril

Sydney’s desalination plant and marine life

Links to other stories

Tourist volunteers asked to do GBR monitoring

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-28/how-your-trip-to-the-great-barrier-reef-could-save-it/10438742

Drones used to conserve Windarra oyster Reef off Yorke Peninsula

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-31/google-heavy-hitter-alan-noble-turns-to-marine-conservation/10447746

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-29/wa-statewide-array-surveillance-wins-gecko-award/10437062

Proposed Sydney MPAs ending up a sham?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-17/nsw-government-backs-down-on-fishing-bans-for-sydney-marine-park/10255432

Species composition changing on the GBR after coral “cooked”

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-19/marine-heatwave-so-bad-it-cooked-parts-of-great-barrier-reef/9667518

OLDER POSTS

 

Sticking Up for Millennials

 

Celebrity Oil Rig Hits Hobart

 

Maritime Heritage Feature – Chinese Seamen in Australian Waters and the “Fido” Wreck

 

Some off site links to other stories

Weird invertebrate trawled from deep Russian waters

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-19/fisherman-claims-discovery-of-bizarre-creature-with-smiling-face/10510748

Port Augusta’s shopping trolley recovery operation in the news again for reasons that aren’t especially clear

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-17/500-dumped-shopping-trolleys-removed-from-waters-near-wharf/10506244

Freak fatality in Tassie, man stabbed by stingray in shallow water

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-17/man-dies-after-stingray-barb-punctures-abdomen-tasmanian-beach/10507834

If that really scares you, Dr Peter ‘Scary’ Last puts it in to a proper context here

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-19/stingray-victim-named-as-ex-navy-seaman-nicholas-ricketts/10510406

More protest about Tasmanian fish farm expansion

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-29/salmon-industry-approved-for-expansion-in-storm-bay/10442648

Tourist volunteers asked to do GBR monitoring

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-28/how-your-trip-to-the-great-barrier-reef-could-save-it/10438742