Bron and Dr Beach bring you this week’s hour of all things wet ‘n salty, including:
• Baykeeper Neil Blake calls creeks and rivers the ‘skinny bits of the bay’, so with that in mind, Neil joins forces with Werribee Riverkeeper John Forrester to talk about platypus, and their connection to the sea. Neil also reports on his recent work with Darebin Creek Sweepers, and John will tell us about a clean-up event happening tomorrow.
• We’ll then catch up with Jacqui Younger and Mandy Robertson for an update on the ‘Save Our Spidercrabs’ campaign, including the group’s response to a recently proposed spidercrab bag limit reduction by Victorian Fisheries Authority, the value of research into spider crab population dynamics, and a growing interest in the campaign to protect the Spider Crabs as we start to think about what this year’s migration and moulting event might bring.
• And in Life’s a Beach, Dr Beach returns to the marine soundscape: this week on how Fin Whale songs can be used for seismic imaging of the ocean crust and perhaps replace noisy air gun surveys.