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Marine Life Society of South Australia Inc,
c/o 1/23 Kolapore Ave, LARGS NORTH South Australia 5016 (Australia)
Email: info@mlssa.org.au
(Those Nearshore Reports are no longer available to us.)
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Liaise with groups such as AusOcean, Friends of Parks, Friends of Gulf St Vincent, etc..
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Thanks Brad, that was a former version of our society’s website. You are welcome to send us a copy of your photo to info@mlssa.org.au for us to help you identify it. We also recommend the Atlas of Living Australia- though it can be a little daunting to use at first (it’s a big database).
Our old site is available once more, Brad
You could also try the Fishes of South Australia page on iNaturalist, which has 255 fish species so far, and more than 6,000 observations: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/fishes-of-south-australia
Yes, thanks Brett. Please share those photos with us if you are still able to
Hi Brett,
Your information is of particular interest because MLSSA is aware that several seahorse experts (one at the South Australian Museum, one from USA who regularly visits SA) are currently trying to determine whether the Shorthead seahorses at places in the upper Spencer Gulf are the same as those in the lower Gulfs including around Adelaide, or whether they might be subspecies or at least genetically separate populations.
I’m a MLSSA committee member who I believe has the greatest personal interest in this matter (within MLSSA) because of my amateur interest in South Australian seahorses, pipefish and their kin over decades.
Feel free to contact me,initially through this portal and then if you are happy to chat on the phone I would provide my mobile phone number, no worries.
Hi Natasha, we have just sent a membership application form to you for completion.
There are lots of seahorses up at Port Augusta, as Jeff Bowey up there will tell you.
Good luck with your studies.
Regards
Steve
Dear Steve Reynolds,
Your printing of the long-ago article by Isabelle Abrams in Readers’ Digest and your wish to ” Live the Dream” was wonderful from the SEAGRASS LADY. . Thanks for this tribute.
I still plan and execute extensive restoration including mangroves an d sometimes coral reefs. I have large plans for the global restoration of seagrass and hope that Jeff Bezos or some other billionaire will share my dream.I came to Sydney and helped the Supreme Court Judges in 2019 in a legal battle about an oil spill off the northern townships polluting West Timor from a leak of a lease in the northern Australian shelf by a Thai Gas and Oil Company. There were articles the following year in 2020 about the decision quoting my name as a key witness. Keep up the good work in Southern Australia. Once of my inspirations and professors interested in seagrass was Eugene Ferguson-Wood of Adelaide on leave to Miami, when I was a grad student.
My web site is being upgraded next week to include my Blue carbon and my biodiversity in seagrass habitat work. GCEEF.org
Best to your whole group. with warm greetings, Anitra Thorhaug
Hi Anitra
Thanks for your lovely email message to the Marine Life Society of South Australia.
It was a real surprise!
It’s good to hear from you and get up to date details.
Do you mind if we share your message online with our members ?
Keep up the good work yourself.
Cheers
Steve Reynolds
President
MLSSA
Fantastic feedback, thanks!!
Gday, I have little confidence that this might be useful, but just in case no-one noticed it,
in the following crudely-illustrated on with lines and circles,
you can see the difference between areas of highest growth/activity, where it’s shallow/inward,
and where the concentrations are OUTward, re possibly useful discovery into the blooms’ expansion-behaviors?
i.e. there might be something DIFFERENT, around especially Cape Jervis, if this image is anything to go by.
Perhaps this image is temporary, amongst seasonal, life, and other cycles,
but if it is similar to a REPEATED pattern, of outward rather than shallow concentrations,
then especial/extra research there and perhaps less-so in the other 2 circles highlighted in this image, might discover a growth-environmental advantage that is although however marginal, marginALLY-enough, that it might explain one piece of the puzzle / perhaps even a particular vulnerability of the species in question?
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cuiFMv-qqN160_hGwa1ph1eJDBAEduge/view?usp=sharing]
P.S. I also note that Cape Jarvis looks like it might? have recently expanded the number of farms after-clearing, around Silverton / Deep Creek? (perhaps not, that’s a guess) There also might be something WATER TABLE wide, that has slowly been making it’s way down to the sea, hence a potential WIDE distribution. (compared to something close to the beach, where it’s very small and concentrated? )
Thanks Rod
You pose a good and valid question about nutrient run off and this warrants further investigation
Thanks for the photos of the Anchor trail. Could the photos be numbered or put in numerical order to match the brochure? Many thanks.
Certainly, Lynn. Which group of anchor photos are we talking about exactly?
Steve
Hi, great information relating to the various jetties remains in SA. Query ,how many 3 pier Jetties are remaining apart from Port Augusta West in Australia?. Just doing a bit of research to help us secure funding for it.
The level and the alignment and level are still holding true for the length and width of the Jetty.
Many of the older Jetties that have been made safe have used external pylons and kept the internal pylons underneath due to the Historical Facts.
Regards .
Hi Dennis, Apologies but we have only just sighted your query. Did you have any luck re funding at all?
Cheers, Steve