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SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE ARTIFICIAL REEFS

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Restoring fish life to Sydney Opera House

PictureArtificial reef structures
Project leader: Prof David Booth
Collaborators:  Giglia Beretta UTS, Emma Bombonato Sydney Opera House
 
Since 2018, UTS Fish Ecology lab is partnering with Sydney Opera House to survey fish life around the Opera House, and add small habitat units designed to enhance fish life.  Regular surveys have revealed a mosaic of marine life including octopuses, small reef fishes and larger species such as bream, leatherjacket and luderick.  The small reefs installed in May 2019 we added are attracting several new species, and as they encrust with algae and sponges their habitat value will increase.

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  • HOME
  • OUR PEOPLE
  • CURRENT RESEARCH
    • WEEDY SEADRAGON ECOLOGY
    • TROPICAL VAGRANT FISHES IN TEMPERATE AUSTRALIA
    • WHITES SEAHORSE
    • SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE ARTIFICIAL REEFS
    • DEMOGRAPHY OF CORAL REEF FISH
    • RIGS TO REEFS
    • EFFECTS OF CORAL BLEACHING ON FISH
  • HOW YOU CAN HELP
  • GALLERY
  • CONTACT US
  • Publications
  • Science Week 2021