DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRY, FISHERIES AND MINES Habitat Mapping Mark Meekan (AIMS) Cary McLean (AIMS) David Williams (NRETA)

DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRY, FISHERIES AND MINES AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE Provide a description of aggregation sites in terms of bathymetry and current flow Aim AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE

DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRY, FISHERIES AND MINES AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE Map of sample sites Channel Point DarwinChambers Bay Caution Point AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE

DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRY, FISHERIES AND MINES AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE Objectives Put the listening station results into a spatial context Are fish occupying a particular habitat type? How do movement patterns relate to current flows? AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE

DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRY, FISHERIES AND MINES AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE Used an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler Profiled a series of transects across the study sites over flood and ebb tides –Caution Point –Chambers Bay –Peron Islands AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE

DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRY, FISHERIES AND MINES AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE

DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRY, FISHERIES AND MINES AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE

DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRY, FISHERIES AND MINES AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE

DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRY, FISHERIES AND MINES AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE

DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRY, FISHERIES AND MINES AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE

DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRY, FISHERIES AND MINES AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE Work in Progress Develop model of current flow Add listening stations Look at spatial patterns of sonar signals (fish distributions) in relation to current flow Catching a bigger jewfish than Chris Errity AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE