East Australian Current

yeah yeah right then young man there's a little incident occurred this uh earlier this year that we should discuss really isn't there yep

yep so um uh for anyone that hasn't been out to the Stradbroke Island um we can get quite quite variable weather we do get get currents throughout the year um we got the East Australian current just off the coast um Everyone's seen Finding Nemo, so everyone knows what the East Australian Current is.

It's one of the things that brings us all our big wildlife and why we have such amazing marine life on the East Coast is because of those conditions we get.

But it can be quite challenging to dive in.

Where do we sit in this FODMAP, mate?

Uh, probably at the very bottom because, um, there's tiger sharks, um, everywhere off our coastline and, and we're seeing more and more of them as the East Australian current runs harder and harder every year.

We're, we're, we're seeing them on the tag shark listing stations and also our catches on our smart drum lines, but even our tagging and tracking program where we're putting satellite tags on animals and they're, they're going down those lower reaches of, of southern New South Wales and down into Victorian and Tasmanian waters.

Hmm.

There, there are...

Ocean temperature is, is a, is a big driver, and, and season matters.

So, um, we, we've said that their greater use of continental, uh, shelf waters during spring and summer coinciding with warmer water, uh, in the East Australian Current.

With the East Australian Current comes productivity and, and, and prey.

And yeah, it's certainly evident in the animals that we've tested that they love all those different animals.

Where do we sit in this FODMAP, mate? probably at the very bottom because there's tiger sharks everywhere off our coastline and we're seeing more and more of them as the East Australian Current runs harder and harder every year.

We're seeing them on the tag shark listing stations and also catches on our smart drum lines, but even our tagging and tracking program where we're putting satellite tags on animals and they're going down those lower reaches of southern New South Wales and down into Victorian and Tasmanian waters.

So describe, you know, the perfect conditions probably isn't the right term, but we've established so far on the podcast that great whites, G-dubs, I'll probably refer to them on here.

Yeah, definitely.

Ocean temperature is a big driver and season matters.

So we've said that the greater use of continental shelf waters during spring and summer coinciding with warmer water in the East Australian Current, with the East Australian Current comes productivity and praise.

So Along the east coast in New South Wales, you get a mackerel run.

There's white sharks and bull sharks there at the same time.

Tiger sharks are pretty much found across our coastline all year round now because the conditions that we see, the East Australian Current runs pretty warm all year, so they're down as far as southern Australia New South Wales, some of our tagging work shows, tiger sharks down in northern Tasmania.

So, yeah, with white sharks present any time of the day, mainly between May and October and November each year, but it can be detected at any time of the year.

We've had white sharks.