AFMA officer frees a turtle from marine debris and netting (source: AFMA)

AFMA to assist research on turtle tangles

AFMA officers who find foreign ghost nets or other abandoned fishing gear will now also assist in research to learn more about the destruction this marine debris can cause.

AFMA fisheries officers on patrol in northern waters will be equipped to collect genetic samples from marine turtles that may be found entangled in ghost nets or other derelict fishing gear as part of a research project of the North Australia Marine Research Alliance, based at the Arafura Timor Research Facility in Darwin. (read full article)

Current projects

Population connectivity of the catadromous fish Lates calcarifer across Van Diemen Gulf using a genomic approach

Optimizing the management of tropical reef fish through the development of an integrative approach

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Investigating trophic role of roving apex predators in tropical estuaries across space and time of northern Australia: a case study with euryhaline elasmobranchs

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Developing new ecotoxicological methods for marine ecosystems

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Research at sea

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Impact of ghost nets on sea turtle populations

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