Felt a little hot under the collar this summer? Analysis of water temperatures around Tasmania show that seas off the east coast were a whopping 4.4 degrees Celsius above average, partly due to the warm East Australian Current extending southwards. Read more in The Conversation.
Tasmanian water temperatures are beginning to fall after a hot summer, signalling some relief on the way for local salmon growers. Salmon farmer Tassal has blamed warm waters for its withdrawal from two tenders for supply contracts with Coles because the temperatures were impacting on the growth rates for its farmed fish. Read the full story at ABC News.
Hugh Richardson is an avid diver, travelling up and down the coast in search of WA's best dive spots. He's also a Redmap member and has logged some unusual sightings online.
The summer of 2015-2016 was one of the hottest on record in Australia. But it has also been hot in the waters surrounding the nation: the hottest summer on record, in fact. Read the full article in the Conversation AU.
ARE melting polar ice sheets as stable as we think or have we missed something? Could we face rapid sea-level rise in a few decades? Scientific debate about this has picked up in the wake of the March publication of two major research papers by scientists from the US, France, Germany and China. Read the full story by Peter Boyer in The Mercury.
Redmap and the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) will be chatting to fishers, boaters and the community at Seafest this Saturday, 2 April. Come along to the marine festival in Triabunna for your chance to win an aquarium full of lolly snakes or a marine book - and chat to the Redmap and IMAS staff about fishing and any weird and wonderful fish you've caught lately.
How do you turn a hobby like SCUBA diving into a job? Ask 17-year-old Tasmanian Jakob Lister. The high school student grabs his dive gear and heads underwater every chance he gets. Now he’s grabbed the chance to steer his love of the ocean towards a career. He’s won a Redmap scholarship to join a Marine Biology course, run by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, on Maria Island …
WARM sea temperatures have lured an assortment of unusual sea creatures to Tasmania in recent months – some slithery and others scrumptious. Anglers are buzzing over the larger numbers of sought-after table fish visiting the island, with catches of whopper yellowtail kingfish, snapper and broadbill swordfish. Read the full story in The Mercury.
It spans up to 3 to 4 metres, breaks the scales at 1000 kilos and resembles a giant flattened pufferfish minus spikes. Redmap has been receiving sightings of the unusual-looking ocean sunfish (Mola mola)! Read about the world's heaviest fish...
The fixed division of labor between crested penguin parents increases their chicks' vulnerability to food shortages made ever more common by climate change. The parents have been unable to adapt their habits to the challenges of increasingly frequent years of limited food supply and, as a result, will become further threatened by extinction. Read more at Science Daily.
