Ocean jackets (Nelusetta ayraudi) are distributed from North West Cape (W.A.) through southern coastal waters to the south of Queensland. They have not been recorded from Tasmanian waters. Seawards their distribution ranges from coastal embayments where juveniles school seasonally to waters just off...
1. To investigate species composition of blue-eye in southern Australian waters through a detailed morphological and genetic comparisons of two identifiable morphs, and, if two species do exist, to prepare guideline information on their spatial and geographic distributions.
2. To assess stock structure and to determine the approximate extent of gene flow among populations taken from different area of southern Australia.