Posted by David Morgan on Friday, March 28, 2014,
The project will directly assess and address current and future threats
faced by south-western Australian endemic freshwater fishes such as climate
change and feral fish within the target area. The project will use the Balston’s Pygmy
Perch (BPP) fish species as a flagship species for conservation (listed as Vulnerable EPBC Act) and elevate its
status to enhance public awareness of aquatic ecosystem issues.
Goals:
· To provide an updated
distribution of BPP in the target ar...
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Tracking the movements of Black Bream and Sea Mullet
Posted by David Morgan on Tuesday, March 11, 2014,
This collaborative project (with the Murdoch Estuarine
Research Group, the Department of Fisheries, GeoCatch, Department of
Water, City of Busselton) aims to determine the movement patterns and spatial
and temporal distribution of the Black Bream and Sea Mullet within the Vasse
Wonnerup system which has been the subject of regular fish kill events.
Using an acoustic tracking approach that the FFGFHU has recently used to
successfully track the movement patterns of large feral goldfish in the...
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New study examining south-west Australia's aestivating fishes
Posted by David Morgan on Tuesday, March 11, 2014,
The FFG is undertaking a new study that is examining the
conservation status of the unique aestivating freshwater fishes of
south-western Australia; the Gondwana relic known as the Salamanderfish (Lepidogalaxiidae
salamandroides; the sole member of the Lepidogalaxiidae) and the
Black-Stripe Minnow (Galaxiella nigrostriata; one of only three members
of Galaxiella). These represent Western Australia's only two aestivating (survive
in seasonally inundated systems by burrowing into mud) freshwate...
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Australia's newest freshwater fish!
Posted by David Morgan on Monday, April 15, 2013,
The Little Pygmy Perch (
Nannoperca pygmaea sp. nov.) was officially named in
Zootaxa on April 12th 2013.
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Barry Jonassen Award
Posted by David Morgan on Thursday, August 2, 2012,
Congratulations to Jon Murphy for winning this years Barry Jonassen Award at the Australian Society for Fish Biology Annual Conference in Adelaide for his project
The molecular phylogeography of freshwater fishes in south-western Australia
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