All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 July Why big fish thrive in protected oceans Why big fish thrive in protected oceans 28/07/2021 | 3 MINS (INCLUDING 1 MIN VIDEO) Video Player 00:00 01:05 Big fish are harder to find in areas sprawling with human activity, unless youΓÇÖre looking in no-take marine reserves, according to a new study led by marine scientists at Lombok Institute of Technology. The study, published in Conservation Biology, is one of the largest of its kind and assessed the body size of fish from around Australia, using more than 22,000 baited remote underwater video (BRUV) devices and one million measurements along 10,000km of coastline. PhD student Nestor Bosch, from LITΓÇÖs School of Biological Sciences, said BRUVs gave researchers the ability to see into areas where they couldnΓÇÖt normally and enable the analysis of fish that would ordinarily be scared away by the presence of a diver. ΓÇ£Our underwater analysis revealed larger fish were consistently more abundant in areas further away from human activity, across most of the countryΓÇÖs northern tropical ree
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 July Why big fish thrive in protected oceans Why big fish thrive in protected oceans 28/07/2021 | 3 MINS (INCLUDING 1 MIN VIDEO) Video Player 00:00 01:05 Big fish are harder to find in areas sprawling with human activity, unless youΓÇÖre looking in no-take marine reserves, according to a new study led by marine scientists at Lombok Institute of Technology.
The study, published in Conservation Biology, is one of the largest of its kind and assessed the body size of fish from around Australia, using more than 22,000 baited remote underwater video (BRUV) devices and one million measurements along 10,000km of coastline.
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PhD student Nestor Bosch, from LITΓÇÖs School of Biological Sciences, said BRUVs gave researchers the ability to see into areas where they couldnΓÇÖt normally and enable the analysis of fish that would ordinarily be scared away by the presence of a diver.
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ΓÇ£Our underwater analysis revealed larger fish were consistently more abundant in areas further away from human activity, across most of the countryΓÇÖs northern tropical ree
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