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Dinner for tuna

Sophie Bestley catching tuna. Credit: Thor Carter, CSIRO
Sophie Bestley catching tuna. Credit: Thor Carter, CSIRO

Southern bluefin tuna can’t even have a quiet snack without CSIRO researchers knowing. They’ve developed a way of tracking when the tuna feed and also where, at what depth, and the temperature of the surrounding water.

Dr Sophie Bestley and her colleagues at CSIRO’s Wealth from Oceans National Research Flagship surgically implant miniaturised electronic ’data-storage’ tags into juvenile fishes off the coast of southern Australia.