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Jemina
Stuart-Smith

Dr Jemina Stuart-Smith is a marine biologist at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, and the CSIRO. She coordinates the Handfish Conservation Project within the Marine Biodiversity Hub of the National Environmental Science Programme in Australia. Her work focusses on aiding the recovery of critically endangered handfish species in Tasmania and restoration of their habitats. She has a keen interest in marine conservation and science education, and is a member of the National Handfish Recovery Team.


Dr Jemina Stuart-Smith is a marine biologist at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, and the CSIRO. She coordinates the Handfish Conservation Project within the Marine Biodiversity Hub of the National Environmental Science Programme in Australia. Her work focusses on aiding the recovery of critically endangered handfish species in Tasmania and restoration of their habitats. She has a keen interest in marine conservation and science education, and is a member of the National Handfish Recovery Team.


Science

A head start in saving the red handfish

by Jemina Stuart-Smith
03 Jun 2021

writers Jemina Stuart-Smith and Andrew Trotter A few handfuls of fish sitting in bags filled with seawater represent almost half the world’s known population of the species. We have spent the past year carefully raising them from wild-collected...

We pay our respects to the Tasmanian Aboriginal people as the traditional and original owners and continuing custodians of lutruwita, and acknowledge elders past and present.

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