Georgia Third

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology PhD student @ucsc 🐟 Science and Innovation @FulbrightNZ scholar 🇳🇿 Fisheries ecology & sustainable fisheries management 🎣

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My open access (first-class honors!) MSc #MarineScience thesis on #NZ snapper is now publically available. The discovery of unique morphologies and corresponding dietary differences will help contribute to #sustainablefisheries of this taonga

https://t.co/iAFFWrTFSK

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@spider_hoof Couldn’t you earn the full rebate if you had multiple children in one household based on the average of $300 on childcare costs p/w per child?

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@BlahaFrancisco Thank you! It’s a couple of tweets down on my profile or it can be found here https://t.co/3bs9H2vhmN

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So the verdict's out. The mushy fleshed Hauraki Gulf snapper are starving! My research remains the only study of snapper diet nationwide TLDR: It's not just because of commercial fishing like Woolford implies

[A detailed thread]

https://t.co/nQXgmaXdgF

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@mish_ona Agreed! The energetic demands from back to back La Nina’s and climate change are enormous! I believe that has been the tipping point this year

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This thread attempts to condense an entire thesis into a few tweets. I have much more to say about this! @TheSpinoffTV if you want to post any more articles on snapper diet you should come to the experts first, LegaSea is not an objective source. [end]

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My concern is if we ban bottom-trawling in the gulf, the trawling effort is going to increase in the Bay of Plenty, which is already severely under pressure. Conservation efforts need to be inclusive of fish around the country, not just in the Gulf.

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@ThomstonMusic @meladoodle Meeeee

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A conference field trip to the aquarium was a fun bonus

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A whole week of talking fisheries! Already learnt so much thanks to a mosaic of great speakers @CalNevaAFS

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@mish_ona @rnz_news I didn’t notice any, but was difficult to tell as I was working with frozen fish. I’m guessing this has something to do with the heatwave and increased metabolic demands on the fish