Stephen Swearer

Jeffrey Shima

February 4, 2021

Under the moonlight: a little light and shade helps larval fish to grow at night

Jeffrey Shima, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Craig W. Osenberg, University of Georgia; Stephen Swearer, The University of Melbourne, and Suzanne Alonzo, University of California, Santa Cruz

Young fish need to find food to grow, but avoid being eaten themselves. That dance for survival is linked to moonlight, which has implications for fisheries management everywhere.

If these fish were released from farms, they might be hard of hearing. Arturo Boyra

May 2, 2016

Listen up: many farmed fish are hard of hearing – here’s why it matters

Tim Dempster, The University of Melbourne; Stephen Swearer, The University of Melbourne, and Tormey Reimer, The University of Melbourne

Farmed fish have a high rate of a deformity that hampers their hearing, and this can be a problem if they’re released into the wild.

The remote rivers of northern Australia could be home to untold numbers of new and threatened fish. Matthew Le Feuvre

January 19, 2016

We discovered 20 new fish in northern Australia – now we need to protect them

Matthew Le Feuvre, The University of Melbourne; James Shelley, The University of Melbourne; Stephen Swearer, The University of Melbourne, and Tim Dempster, The University of Melbourne

A score of new fish species discovered recently in northern Australia remind us how little we know about our country.

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Under the moonlight: a little light and shade helps larval fish to grow at night

Listen up: many farmed fish are hard of hearing – here’s why it matters

We discovered 20 new fish in northern Australia – now we need to protect them

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