19 Feb 2025

eDNA programme to help preserve fish species

From Nights, 10:30 pm on 19 February 2025

A new partnership has been launched to assess the status of over six hundred New Zealand and Australian marine fish species using cutting-edge environmental DNA technology.

The programme is run by Australian philanthropy group the Minderoo Foundation.

Michael Bunce is the director of their ocean research division, Oceanomics, and a world-leading geneticist and he joins Emile Donovan.

Cod fish swimming past mussel bed at top of South Island.

Cod fish swimming past mussel bed at top of South Island. Photo: Supplied / Emilee Benjamin