Slow increase in Australia’s eastern grey nurse shark population shows conservation actions are on track

Sep 5, 2025

Scientists collected biopsy samples from more than 300 grey nurse sharks off the coast of New South Wales. The DNA of these sharks was profiled to reveal family relationships that can help to estimate population size. Based on this work, the number of adults in the eastern grey nurse shark population is estimated to have…

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Mar 11, 2024

Lights, cameras, pilchards and whales: surveying life in Hunter Marine Park

Sep 4, 2025

At depths below 50 metres, their cameras are capturing the wonderful world of fiddler rays, catsharks, Port Jackson sharks, hermit crabs, leatherjackets, lobsters, nannygai, bellowfish, serpent eels, sea whips, wobbegongs and snappers. The three-week survey began on 12 August, and is working around the weather. It is led by Dr Jacquomo Monk of the Institute…

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Seeing ocean life through eDNA: new insights from south-eastern Australia

Sep 2, 2025

The voyages, conducted in July 2023 and May 2024, were part of the South-East Australian Marine Ecosystem Survey (SEA-MES) on the CSIRO Research Vessel (RV) Investigator. More than 500 eDNA samples were collected and analysed from 91 survey sites along the continental shelf between Tasmania and southern New South Wales. This is the first comprehensive…

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