NSW Fishy Bits – Bluestriped Goatfish (Upeneichthys lineatus)

Goatfish are found around southern Australia, but one species is mainly at home only in rugby league Eastern States. It even has blue stripes.

This goatfish is superficially similar to all other Australian goatfish but its endemic (only found) in the temperate marine waters of eastern and southeastern Australia, from about Fraser Island, southern Queensland to Lakes Entrance, eastern Victoria. Bluestriped Goatfish hang about on the sandy seabeds of sheltered bays and harbours, probing the sediment for prey with their sensory barbels. They have fine teeth and without crushing molars, and feed on small molluscs, crustaceans, worms echinoderms (urchins) and small fish. They often forage over the bottom in small schools, and have been collected from 5-200 m.

Photo: John Turnbull, Shiprock, Port Hacking, New South Wales

December January 2018 We Go Interactive (but in a RRR way)

As this magazine is currently run by a pre-digital Luddite nerd, it has moved cautiously into the information consumption marketplace. I have been prevailed upon to refocus the website as on-line magazine portal where you can post and comment and consume a tweet sized headline, or hit on links to a more fullsome rendering of the actual issues (but who would do that? Is that still cool?).

I’ve found some templates that looked like Facebook had infiltrated them (Yes they do breach our privacy but in this banal age they can’t even be bothered repressing us, they just use it to sell c**p). Maybe they could gloss up the environmental apocalyptic doomsaying with affirming colours and snappy advertising-style panels. Anyway, I tried a website magazine template and it crashed the website, so out with the that and in with something a bit more of the “RRR” (rustic, rural and rats–t) but they don’t sell RRR website templates for people who are actually seaside rustics. Enough!

You get a Facebook notification or email (if you subscribe), and you can then click to links in my cr*p old website thing where there is a summary of the different new articles I’ve posted. In the unlikely event that this subject seems sexy, you can click on a link to a longer feature article.  Down with bureaucratic digital professionalism, it will be ratsh**t but, therefore, it must be authentic.

I don’t reckon too many will leave comments but you can if you like. I’d suggest conspiracy rants about Finland not really existing can go on your existing site of choice though.

Merry Xmas! Bahhh humbug, be tortured by the ghosts of technologies past like I have, Mike J