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Nov 11 2013

Award Winning Lyngbya Research

Lyngbya is a cyanobacteria that grows quickly when fed nutrients that can come from wastewater, fertilisers, animal faecies and garden waste.

A team of scientists headed by Assoc Professor Ryan Vogwill at the University of Western Australia have won an outstanding award. They have been working with the Department of Parks Wildlife staff in Broome, Yawuru Rangers, RBWG and volunteers from Broome community to help us understand why Lyngbya blooms have been occurring in Roebuck Bay in recent years.

The Broome Lyngbya Taskforce won the award for ‘bringing together the community to discover the role of nutrient inputs in the proliferation of noxious algae in Roebuck Bay’.

Read the short article for answers »


Nov 5 2013

Commercial fishing ends In Roebuck Bay

All smiles for rec fishers today in Broome, with the announcement that commercial gillnetting in Roebuck Bay will come to an end in Roebuck Bay by the end of the current fishing year.

All smiles for rec fishers in Broome, with commercial gillnetting in Roebuck Bay ending.

There has been a big announcement today by the State Government that commercial gillnetting in Roebuck Bay will cease by the end of the current fishing year.

Threadfin salmon (Blue nose and Giant) in Roebuck Bay have very localised genetic population, this means they live, eat and breed their whole life in the bay.  Hear the story on the ABC in Broome » 


Nov 4 2013

Shorebirds in peril

The world's most astounding migration of shorebirds begins from Roebuck Bay, but their stopover for food on the way to their breeding grounds inear the Arctic Circle is in the Yellow Sea where the mudflats are being filled in for industrial development. Jan van der Kam.

Broome’s migratory shorebirds are struggling to find food on their annual breeding migration due to industrial developments on their staging grounds on the Yellow Sea. © Jan van de Kam.

Roebuck Bay’s shorebirds are an inspiration for their ability to navigate and fly 10,000kms each year to breed in the Arctic Circle. However their migration is under threat as described in the Weekend Australian by Environment Editor Graham Lloyd.  Broome’s shorebird expert Chris Hassell is quoted in the story.  To read more about the migration and situation in the Yellow Sea, get hold of the book, Invisible Connections by Jan van der Kam from Broome Bird Observatory and Kimberley Bookshop »


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