Holothurian and Giant Clam surveys North West Australian Marine Parks - Ashmore and Mermaid Reefs, Parks Australia and CSIRO 2022

This is a record for the data collected from surveys of shallow reef habitats at Ashmore Reef and Mermaid Reef Marine Parks in 2022. The surveys were carried out to provide Parks Australia with an understanding of the impacts of foreign fishing on the abundance and diversity of sea cucumbers in shallow reef ecosystems and to inform future monitoring and management.
UVC Reef Life Survey method and ROV
345 sites were surveyed across 5 habitat types: intertidal reef; shallow subtidal lagoon; deep lagoon; western reef edge and eastern reef edge.
Data on percent habitat type was for Mermaid Reef transects only