Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour
Working harbour of Italian-founded fishing fleets landing western rock lobster since the nineteen twenties.
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This guide to the Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour in Perth follows a thread of fisheries science that began in nineteen sixty eight, when researchers started counting lobster larvae too small to see. It traces how that decades-long puerulus monitoring program let scientists forecast catches years ahead, and how that foresight turned the Western Rock Lobster fishery into a world sustainability pioneer. You will meet the collectors built to mimic drifting seaweed, and the scientists who still check them today.
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