Integrated Reef Fish Monitoring Project (IMR)
The project focuses on monitoring reef fish assemblages in deep-water inter reef areas, inshore nursery grounds and fringing reefs of high continental islands. The surveys will first set monitoring baselines for offshore deep water inter-reefal fish communities beyond safe limits of SCUBA based surveys. Underwater Visual Census survey will occur on 8 island groups using transect based methods (Emslie & Cheal, 2018). Nursery seascapes will be surveyed with RUVS (non-baited BRUVS) and BRUVS to survey fishes various habitats (estuary, mangrove, seagrass, reef flat) in three seascape elements (coastal, inter-reef, and continental island).
BRUVS and ROVs will be employed for data acquisition in three nodes, the northern, central and southern GBR. Sampling will be a spatially balanced design among different habitats (e.g. shoals, Halimeda banks, sponge gardens) as well as Marine Park zoning.
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| Date (revision) | 2026-10-24 |
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| Status | completed |
| Update frequency | asNeeded |
| Metadata language | en |
| License | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 |
| Source metadata | ISO 19115 XML |
| Last updated | 2026-11-05 |
| Created | 2026-11-05 |
| API | package_show |