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While the rivers of northern Australia and the Murray-Darling Basin are renowned for their iconic, large-sized, fish species such as Murray Cod and Barramundi, the temperate inland waterways of Tasmania…
The federal government’s recent announcement “reproclaiming” the new Commonwealth Marine Reserves overturns previous plans to protect Australia’s marine biodiversity, and review the management of Australia’s…
Fish communities living in marine reserves may resist the impacts of climate change better than their counterparts in areas…
Southeast Australia is an ocean warming “hotspot” – a region where temperature at the ocean’s surface is increasing more rapidly than elsewhere. That means this part of Australia is like an outdoor laboratory…
Banning the practice of throwing back unmarketable or over-quota fish is only one of the measures needed to improve sustainable…
Careful management of the local environment and diversifying investment and lifestyle options for local people could be the…
The deliberate act of falsely representing, labelling or advertising food, known as “food fraud”, is not a recent phenomenon. The deceitful adulteration of food has a long history based on the promise…
Bottom trawling by fishing fleets has caused widespread concern over the environmental damage done to seabed habitats and marine life. It seems obvious that powerful boats towing large heavy nets that…
Last year the current government unveiled plans for the world’s largest network of marine parks around Australia’s coast. Now the Coalition has pledged to put a pause on the plan should it form government…
The NSW Government’s announcement this week allowing beach fishing in sanctuary (no-take) zones of marine parks flies in the face of sensible conservation of precious marine biodiversity. It is a warning…
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Director & Professor, Fisheries Economics Research Unit, University of British Columbia
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Wen Family Chair in Conservation, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor, Marine Ecology and Fisheries Biology, University of Plymouth; Marine Biological Association
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Professor of Marine Ecology, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Complex Systems and Environmental Policy, Bournemouth University
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Senior Research Fellow, Conservation Science, University of Oxford; Bangor University
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Professor & ARC Laureate Fellow, Thriving Oceans Research Hub, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
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Research Scientist, Fisheries & Marine Institute, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Chief Scientist, Heriot-Watt University
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Emeritus Professor of Environmental Governance, UCL
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Researcher in Ecosystem Dynamics, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Professor, Conservation Biology, The University of Queensland
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Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Associate professor, Singapore Management University
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Associate Professor in Marine Biology, Swansea University