South Australia has the smallest and a vulnerable flesh-footed shearwater population in Australia, which is restricted to two to four islands in southern Spencer Gulf. Previous estimates of abundance in South Australia suggested the species may only number in the 100s. Given the ...
Fur seal populations were eliminated over much of their range in southern Australia by early colonial sealers in the early parts of the 19th century. Almost a century and half later, these populations are finally recovering. The best and most continuous data set on the recovery o...
The National System for the Prevention and Management of Marine Pests requires tools for the detection and monitoring of marine pests. Recent development of taxon-specific quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) assays that screen plankton samples for marine pests has been ...
Effects of hyper-saline conditions upon six estuarine fish species from the Coorong and Murray Mouth
This study examined the salinity tolerance of juvenile fish species from the Coorong, South Australia, using controlled aquarium trials. Seven species were tested under gradually increasing salinity at two temperatures (14 °C and 23 °C) to determine lethal (LC10, LC50, LC90) and ...
This report examines the reproductive biology of five fish species (Acanthopagrus butcheri, Aldrichetta forsteri, Rhombosolea tapirina, Afurcagobius tamarensis and Pseudaphritis urvillii) in the Murray Mouth and Coorong of South Australia. Specifically, this study aims to outline...
River regulation and freshwater flow extraction for agricultural, industrial and residential use are common practices across Australia and have had severe impacts on water-dependent ecosystems including estuarine environments and coastal fisheries. In recent years, the need for e...
This report is the third assessment of the Lakes and Coorong Fishery (LCF) for pipi. The most recent assessment of Ferguson and Mayfield (2006) suggested that the resource was depleted based on an extended period of concurrent high annual catches and declining fishery catch per u...
This stock assessment of pipi, Donax deltoides, (also known as Goolwa cockle) in the Lakes and Coorong Fishery (LCF), South Australia, builds on two previous assessments (MurrayJones and Johnson 2003...
This is the 10th stock assessment report for the South Australian snapper fishery since 1997 and comes three years after the last assessment that was undertaken in 2010. Since then there has been significant change in this fishery. This includes a comprehensive review of the fish...
The Pike Anabranch and Floodplain is one of three large anabranch systems in the Riverland region of the lower River Murray, South Australia. The Pike Anabranch bypasses Lock and Weir No. 5, resulting in a head differential (total >3 m), which creates a diverse range of aquatic h...