Assessing and mapping northern Australia’s endangered shellfish reefs

Overview

Project researcher Dr Marina Richardson will discuss the project’s findings and assess the current status of tropical oyster (also called shellfish) reefs across Northern Australia. This project undertook full assessments of reef condition at selected sites to develop rapid assessment methods suitable for estimating oyster populations, supported biodiversity, habitat preferences and settlement substrates to inform future management, monitoring, and conservation status of tropical oyster reefs.