Education

Watch the video below to learn about marine pests and what you can do to help protect your industry and Australia’s marine environment.

Transcript - Biosecurity Basics (DOCX – 22 KB)

Passive surveillance, education and awareness of marine pests

The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry worked closely with the Marine Pest Sectoral Committee (MPSC) and key stakeholders to develop educational material targeting ports, marinas, divers and aquaculture sectors.

The focus is to increase awareness of marine pests, leading to improved passive surveillance and reporting in these sectors.

The project is called Passive Surveillance, Education, and Awareness (PSEA) of marine pests. The project fulfils the objective to promote tailored education and awareness materials to engage marine pest observer groups in passive surveillance activities, under Activity 2.3 of the MarinePestPlan 2018-2023.

A project summary outlining the aims, outcomes and benefits of the PSEA project can be downloaded below.

• Project summary – Passive surveillance, education, and awareness of marine pests (PDF – 284 KB)
• Project summary – Passive surveillance, education, and awareness of marine pests (DOCX – 1.0 MB)

The Marine Pest Sectoral Committee (MPSC) has developed educational posters and fact sheets for each of the four sectors to help raise awareness of marine pests and increase passive surveillance.

Posters and fact sheets for can be downloaded from the following sections on this webpage.

To access the full suite of materials, please contact the MPSC Secretariat at mpsc@aff.gov.au

Posters

The posters target ports, marinas, divers and the aquaculture industries. You can download, print and display the posters that are relevant to you.

Ports posters

• Marine pests - Ports poster (PDF – 1.14 MB)
• Marine pests - Ports poster (DOCX – 481 KB)

Marinas posters

• Marine pests - Marinas poster (PDF – 1.12 MB)
• Marine pests - Marinas poster (DOCX – 541 KB)

Divers posters

• Marine pests - Divers poster (PDF – 2.15 MB)
• Marine pests - Divers poster (DOCX – 918 KB)

Aquaculture posters

• Marine pests - Aquaculture poster (PDF – 2.84 MB)
• Marine pests - Aquaculture poster (DOCX – 999 KB)

If you have difficulty accessing these files, visit web accessibility for assistance.

Fact sheets

The Marine Pest Sectoral Committee (MPSC) has developed fact sheets to help raise awareness of marine pests and increase passive surveillance.

The fact sheets target ports, marinas, divers and the aquaculture industries. You can download, print and share the fact sheets that are relevant to you.

Ports fact sheets

• Marine pests - Ports fact sheet (PDF – 1.09 MB)
• Marine pests - Ports fact sheet (DOCX – 389 KB)

Marinas fact sheets

• Marine pests - Marinas fact sheet (PDF – 757 KB)
• Marine pests - Marinas fact sheet (DOCX – 466 KB)

Divers fact sheets

• Marine pests - Divers fact sheet – specialist divers (PDF – 3.54 MB)
• Marine pests - Divers fact sheet – specialist divers (DOCX – 659 KB)
• Marine pests - Divers fact sheet – generalist divers (PDF – 3.54 MB)
• Marine pests - Divers fact sheet – generalist divers (DOCX – 659 KB)

Aquaculture fact sheets

• Marine pests - Aquaculture fact sheet (PDF – 989 KB)
• Marine pests - Aquaculture fact sheet (DOCX – 658 KB)

If you have difficulty accessing these files, visit web accessibility for assistance.

Other education resources

• Marine pests and how to identify them.
• The National Introduced Marine Pest Information System (NIMPIS)
• Education and learning resources – (Victoria)
• Marine Pests: Look – Report – Protect (Queensland)