Using eDNA to assess how estuarine fish communities respond to consecutive extreme events of drought, bushfire, and flood.

Project Member(s): Murray, S., Ajani, P.

Funding or Partner Organisation: NSW Department of Primary Industries (Recreational Fishing Trust - NSW)
NSW Department of Primary Industries (Recreational Fishing Trust - NSW)

Start year: 2023

Summary: This project will utilise weekly environmental DNA (eDNA) samples collected from NSW estuaries between 2018 - 2020 to explore how recreational fish assemblages were impacted by consecutive extreme events.

FOR Codes: Measurement and assessment of estuarine water quality , Fisheries sciences

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.