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Post Voyage Update: Spring bloom brings ‘jelly balls’ to NSW coast [media release 3/11/08]

About the Voyage

The East Australian Current (EAC) can generate small eddies (between 30-100 km diameter), in the region of the Stockton Bight (east of Port Stephens, 33ºS), off central New South Wales. Stockton Bight is anecdotally recognised as an unusual nursery area for New South Wales fisheries.

Learn more about this voyage in the Voyage Plan SS1008 [PDF].

In a previous voyage in October 2006 the team from the University of New South Wales sampled such an eddy revealing dramatic concentrations of late stage larvae of commercial fishes. [...more]

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Meet the Voyagers

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Near real-time data from the RV Southern Surveyor while she is at sea.

SS10/08: Map showing location, intending sampling route and ports of embarkation and completion [...view track]