Fishes - Australian Museum Fish Site

The Fish Department - Fieldwork

Staff of the Fish Section occasionally participate in fieldwork. Trips range in length from a day up to six weeks and cover localities as close to home as Sydney Harbour, or as far afield as French Polynesia, Vanuatu or Madagascar. These pages show images from some of the fieldwork undertaken over the last few years.

The majority of the fishes are collected for research purposes but occassionally specimens are collected as part of commercial work, or for use in the preparation of the Museum's exhibitions. All specimens collected are entered into the collection database and incorporated into the research collection. Specimens in the collection are used in research programs by scientists in many countries around the world.

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Muddy puddle
November - December 2002
N.E. New South Wales
collecting vessel
May - June 2000
Philippine Islands
canoes
Sept - Oct 1998
Solomon Islands

Brooke on boat
19 March 1998
Sydney Harbour
local fishing vessel
April - May 1997
Vanuatu - northern
The Lewia
May - June 1996
Vanuatu - southern

Scaly Damselfish
1995 - ongoing
Larval studies
Mark with net
1995 - 1998
Cox's River
GBR sunlight
Jan - Feb 1993
Outer Barrier Reef

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