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Fishing for Data on Plastics

The problem of plastics in our oceans and their potential impact on people, plants, animals and entire ecosystems was front and centre at the recent United Nations Ocean Conference in Portugal. Through the UN Environment Assembly, more than 500 organisations and 21 additional governments, including Australia, have signed up to commitments to change how plastic […]

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New Paper: Accuracy of species identification by fisheries observers in a north Australian shark fishery

A new paper involving Environment Institute member Corey Bradshaw, as well as Bree Tillett (Charles Darwin University & Australian Institute of Marine Science), Iain Field (Charles Darwin University, Australian Institute of Marine Science and Macquarie University), Grant Johnson (Northern Territory Fisheries), Rik Buckworth (Northern Territory Fisheries & CSIRO), Mark Meekan (Australian Institute of Marine Science) […]

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