Marine Mothers

Peter Macreadie - Baby fish and seagrass

Bron and Anth are involved in a major stouch about who's Mum is best - this glorious Mother's day.

Todays take on the weather is that the Bureau of Maybeology do not get up for the 5am forecast - but are just ready to go home after a big night out.

One third of the worlds protected areas are in Australia. However, you explore for oil, fish, and store carbon dioxide in them, and nuclear testing didn't seem to be ruled out.

The Japanese whaling industry has discovered it has a massive stockpile of "research" whale meat - so they have had to hire a marketing company. The portion sizes are too small to really make a dent - a new meaning to supersize me !

The vast majority of invertebrates and fish is a broadcast method - let the sperm and eggs go and see what happens (the nightclub method). The next step is the brooding process, when the mother puts them all together, either with lunch or making them get their own lunch (unusually) plankton.

Live births are much less common, but is done be things from seastars. In case of the seastar, it can use all three !

Peter received his award from Sir Gus Nossel, the same person who gave his father an award for microbiology when he was a kid.

Peter is looking to understand the impact of fragmenting seagrass beds, which are a key nursery to fish species. What size and shape will be best and necessary to preserve the fisheries that depend on the seagrass.

Nelson Aspen is the Channel 7 Sunrise Hollywood and lifestyle reporter.

Nelson gave us a wide review of the marine disaster movies, the Pirate genera, and the fate of different stars that drowned in movies.

And his contribution to the worst underwater movie - check out Hello Down There (Paramount, 1969)

" Gillian"

" Pistol Packin' Mama"

" Thank you "

The Waifs

Al Dexter

Totally Gourdgious

Its raining - you can get wet, getting ready to get wet. No wind. 10 m vis on the bottom