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Ravenous Kingfish Hit Port Stephens Marine Park

There are fears thousands of "ravenous" kingfish that escaped a state government jointly-run fish farm off Port Stephens will devastate the marine...

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13 Feb 2018

World's Loudest Fish Victim Of Unique Talent

Each year, over a million Gulf corvina swim to their spawning grounds along the Colorado River Delta. These fish are famous for their loud,...

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22 Dec 2017

Cuttlefish Live Fast-Die Young

With a lifespan of just 18 months, giant cuttlefish are known to 'live fast and die young'. For a few months each year about 12km across a bay from...

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22 May 2017

Aquarium Turtle More Terrifying Than Sharks!

Sharks draw the crowds at marine exhibits with their promise of peril, but in this city’s aquarium lurks a bigger menace. Lucy the turtle. Lucy is a...

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11 May 2016

Oz Abalone Farm Success

In the pristine waters of Flinders Bay, near Augusta in Western Australia, the seabed is being transformed. Hatchery-bred abalone grown to maturity...

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25 Apr 2016

Kiwi Sponge Key to Cancer Cure

The Mycale henscheli sponge makes a chemical that could one day be a more effective cancer drug, with fewer side-effects than current medicines. A...

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16 Apr 2016

How World Subsidises Overfishing

By now, plenty of people are familiar with fossil fuel subsidies — the hundreds of billions that governments spend to bankroll the burning of oil,...

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23 Mar 2016

The Bizarre Red-lipped Batfish

In the video below, catch a rare look at a red-lipped batfish, one of the strangest residents of the underwater kingdom off of Cocos Island. This...

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27 Feb 2016

Bizarre Sex Lives of Oean Creatures

Romance! Danger! Hope! And the wildest sex even you can imagine. In her new book Sex in the Sea, coral reef ecologist Marah J. Hardt dishes on the...

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21 Feb 2016

Shark Fatality Realities

Sharks strike fear into the heart of swimmers but there were only six fatalaties worldwide in 2015. Hysteria about shark attacks bears little...

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16 Feb 2016

Nice little place they have down there by the water. Good place to go for a quick and fun outing. Interesting seeing all the various types of marine life they have in one building.

Archie

The Island Bay Marine Education Centre's Bait House Aquarium is an interactive marine experience based in Island Bay on Wellington's south coast.There are lots of different sea creatures on display including a couple of octupuses, sea horses, lobsters to name a few. You can also gently touch and handle starfish, sea cucumbers, sea anemones, crabs and other sea life found in the local rock pools outside.There's far more inside than you would expect. The volunteers and expert staff are very friendly and helpful. It is really reasonably priced and we were all entertained for ages. Really good fun and educational too. Definitely worth checking out with the family.

Haydn