Guest Blog By Dr. Adrian Flynn(a) and Dr. Travis Dutka(b)
(a) Marine Ecologist and Director at Fathom Pacific
(b) Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University Department of Ecology, Environment, and Evolution.
The waters of Western Port in southeastern Australia are a recreational fishing haven and hidden beneath its turbid waters, a unique fragile seafloor community has been newly described. Here, bryozoans, skeleton-forming filter-feeding organisms also known as ‘lace corals’, form expansive areas of reef that support a high diversity and abundance of macroinvertebrates important to snapper and other prized recreational fish species.
Continue reading “Social mapping of Australian bays and conservation of Fish Aggregating Bryozoans”
