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We carry out both our own marine research projects and support various university research and routine Government and other assoiciations recording actvities, such as sea grass monitoring, tidal and intertidal surveys, exotic species ident projects, algal collations and more. We log, almost weekly, underwater marine life sightings for reefwatch and others. We also carry out our own survey of Marine Life (Beaumaris Peninsula) All people, whether divers or beachcombers at low tide, can select a small area of the coastal fringe such as an intertidal rock platform or a definable segment of a sub-tidal reef. Using the booklet Marine Life of the Coastal Fringe (B. Whiteway, No. 6 in the Sandringham Environment Series), and/or other identification guides, you can survey the marine life of the chosen area. The results can be entered on the checklist below. Marine Care Ricketts Point Inc. would like to record the data you collect. It becomes really interesting when the identical survey is carried out next year and it is compared with the original survey. Perhaps new animals and plants will have appeared. The density of populations may have increased. Your platform or reef’s performance can be compared with others inside the sanctuary and with those from outside. The checklist below is really a modified Reef Watch – tailor-made for key species found in our own particular locality.Click here for the 2005/6 Survey Results. |
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