Upcoming Events

18 - 22 August Coast to Coast Conference 2008 Crossing Boundaries in Tropical Rivers and Estuaries: Maintaining Connections [Run jointly by Marine and Tropical Sciences Rearch Facility (MTSRF) and Tropical Rivers and Coastal Knowledge (Track)] Wednesday 20 August. 

For more events please visit our Calendar of Events.

 

 

 
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Welcome

The Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Limited (RRRC) was created in 2006 to implement the Australian Government's Marine and Tropical Sciences Research Facility (MTSRF) in North Queensland.

Research that is conducted by the MTSRF is for public benefit.  This website enables the MTSRF to disseminate scientific outputs to the general community in a readily accessible format.

For more information see the About Us section. If you are unable to locate the information you are seeking, please contact our Cairns office and our staff will be happy to assist you.

 

 

 

The ICRI International Year of the Reef 2008 is a worldwide campaign to raise awareness about the value and importance of coral reefs and threats to their sustainability, and to motivate people to take action to protect them. All individuals, corporations, schools, governments, and organizations are welcome and actively encouraged to participate in IYOR 2008. [More]

 

 

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Protected Fish Stage a Comeback (24 June 2008)

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Project 4.8.4 JCU Simpfendorfer, C. (2008) June Milestone Report

This milestone report outlines the results of the first year of commercial fisheries observer surveys. In total 91 days of commercial inshore fishing was observed. The results indicate a wide range of shark and fish species are caught by commercial fishers. Key shark species include blacktip, spot-tail, scalloped hammerhead, milk and whitecheek sharks. All of these species are currently the focus of life history investigations by students as part of this project. Key fish species include grey mackerel, threadfins (blue and king), barramundi and many others. [pdf 270.4 kb]

For further information on this project please click here: Project 4.8.4 Evaluation of the impacts from industry and community uses on inshore biodiversity.

 

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