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If regulatory approval is received, a pilot sponge farm could be established in Torres Strait. The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), in collaboration with CRC Torres Strait, the Torres Strait Regional Authority, and the Yorke Island Community Council, has completed a two year study on the feasibility of and best practice methods for farming sponges at Masig (Yorke) Island. [ read more ]

Corals already under pressure from global climate change are facing an additional threat in the form of pesticides running off from the land, shows a new scientific study published in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series. [ read more ]

For the first time in several years, large fresh water flood plumes carrying sediment, nutrients, other pollutants and debris from the mainland have travelled to the outer reefs of the Great Barrier Reef threatening vulnerable corals. [ read more ]

Although the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) seems likely to escape a major bleaching event this summer, a recently released United Nations report is turning up the heat on the issue of global warming. [ read more ]

CORALS GET RESPITE FROM CROWN-OF-THORNS

Recent "early warning" surveys suggest a crown-of-thorns starfish outbreak is not an imminent threat to corals on the Great Barrier Reef. [ read more ]