Baseline Final Report
ECOLOGICAL MONITORING OF REEF FISHES, INVERTEBRATES AND MACROALGAE AT LORD HOWE ISLAND MARINE PARK, NEW SOUTH WALES, 2006-2010 SURVEY AND REPORTING: 1,2 1 2 2 GRAHAM EDGAR , JOE VALENTINE , TONI COOPER , RICK STUART-SMITH , 3 3 SALLYANN GUDGE , IAN KERR 1 AQUENAL PTY LTD, 244 SUMMERLEAS ROAD, KINGSTON, TAS 7050 2 INSTITUTE FOR MARINE AND ANTARCTIC STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA, NUBEENA CRES, TAROONA, TAS 7053 3 LORD HOWE ISLAND MARINE PARK, PO BOX 161, LORD HOWE ISLAND, NSW 2898 AUGUST 2011 A QUE NAL PTY LTD www.aquenal.com.au DOCUMENT INFORMATION TITLE: Ecological Monitoring of reef fishes, invertebrates and macroalgae at Lord Howe Island Marine Park, New South Wales, 2006-2010 PUBLISHER: AQUENAL PTY LTD ABN 86 081 689 910 244 Summerleas Road Kingston Tasmania 7050 Phone +61 (0)3 6229 2334 Fax +61 (0)3 6229 2335 E-mail: admin@aquenal.com.au Website: www.aquenal.com.au REPORT CITATION: Aquenal (2011) Ecological Monitoring of reef fishes, invertebrates and macroalgae at Lord Howe Island Marine Park, New South Wales, 2006-2010. Report for New South Wales Marine Parks Authority by Aquenal Pty Ltd, Kingston, Tasmania, August 2011 2 SUMMARY Quantitative surveys of reef communities across the Lord Howe Island Marine Park (LHIMP) were undertaken during February/March each year from 2006 to 2010, with the exception of 2007. A total of 49 different sites were investigated overall, including 33 core sites resurveyed most years, and up to 46 sites surveyed in a single year. A total of 285 fishes (250 identified to species level), 31 crustaceans, 51 molluscs and 38 echinoderms were recorded, including eight new fish records and the first sighting of the eastern rock lobster Sagmariasus verreauxi at the island.
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