News – Handfish Conservation Project

Best Practice Guidelines for Diving & Snorkelling with Handfish

Jemina Stuart-Smith December 19, 2022 No Comments

The Best Practice Guidelines for Diving and Snorkelling with Handfish is a collaborative initiative promoting ethical diving with threatened and vulnerable handfish species in Tasmania. These guidelines were developed by…

Ziebell’s handfish

Jemina Stuart-Smith November 23, 2020 No Comments

Ziebell’s handfish is named in honour of an avid diver and fisher named Allen ‘Alby’ Ziebell, who collected some of the original specimens. We were lucky to be contacted by…

Red handfish habitat restoration

Jemina Stuart-Smith November 18, 2020 No Comments

One of the key threats to Red handfish survival is the loss and degradation of their habitat. This could happen for several reasons, including climate change, land-based pollution or siltation,…

Raising red handfish, with Rachelle Hawkins, Seahorse World.

Jemina Stuart-Smith November 12, 2020 No Comments

Rachelle Hawkins is one of the owners and directors of Seahorse World in Beauty Point, Tasmania and is the original Head Biologist of the seahorse farm, having worked with the…

Finding Spotted handfish, with Carlie Devine.

Jemina Stuart-Smith July 22, 2020 No Comments

We recently caught up with Carlie Devine, CSIRO as a photographer, scientific diver and research technician, to chat about her work over the years with with Spotted handfish. Background: tell…

Ocean Geographic feature on Red handfish

Jemina Stuart-Smith July 17, 2020 No Comments

Earlier this year, Handfish Conservation Project coordinator Dr Jemina Stuart-Smith was invited to contribute an article to Ocean Geographic on Red handfish. The article has just been published! You can…

The search for Red and Ziebell’s handfish

Jemina Stuart-Smith May 4, 2020 No Comments

Red and Ziebell’s handfish are small cryptic fish that don’t move much and are difficult to find. There are two known populations of Red handfish in south-eastern Tasmania, and Ziebell’s…

Writing about handfish – with Katherine Richardson

Jemina Stuart-Smith May 1, 2020 No Comments

We caught up with Katherine Richardson, a local Tasmanian writer, who is putting together a children’s book on Red handfish. Katherine – tell us a bit about yourself! I grew…

Handfish monitoring with Helen O’Neill (CSIRO)

Jemina Stuart-Smith January 16, 2020 No Comments

We caught up with Helen O’Neill – a research assistant at CSIRO. Helen is involved in a number of projects including the Australian National Fish Collection, developing and populating fishIDER…

Handfish DNA

Jemina Stuart-Smith September 23, 2019 No Comments

Our Red Handfish IMAS/CSIRO PhD student, Tyson Bessell, is incorporating a genetic component into his research. Under the direction of expert geneticists, Dr Sharon Appleyard (CSIRO, Hobart) and Dr Carolyn…

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