Prioritising #conservation actions for red #handfish - article by PhD student Tyson Bessell & colleagues bit.ly/3Ch4REG

It's national #ThreatenedSpeciesDay. Half of all known handfish species are considered threatened with extinction (@IUCNRedList), and for another 5 species we do not have enough data to know their status. @TSCommissioner #BiodiversityCrisis #conservation #extinction

Excited that our project leader Dr Jemina Stuart-Smith is taking part in this year's @InsideNatGeo #NatGeoFest this week! Huge thanks to @InsideNatGeo for supporting our #handfish research and conservation ❤

Resighted 681 days after first being observed, this once 3cm little red handfish named Irwin is now double the size & very much an adult! Thanks to generous sponsors who named this Critically Endangered handfish in honour of Steve Irwin. handfish.org.au/meet-the-fis… 📸 Tyson Bessell

Not so 'red' red #handfish found recently at one of our monitoring sites as part of regular @IMASUTAS surveys to estimate population size & track growth/movement/habitat preferences for this #CriticallyEndangered species. (📷 Jemina Stuart-Smith)

Meet 'Hope'! This little red handfish has been named by the Hope-Suds team in Hobart - a volunteer-run social enterprise selling hand-made soap & donating proceeds to charity. #grateful #hope #conservation #handfish 📷 Tyson Bessell

We recently re-sighting some of our captive-raised red handfish juveniles in the wild (2 months post release) #conservation #criticallyendangered #handfish (📷T. Bessell)

Paper on #handfish #conservation effort & challenges published in #BiologicalConservation in light of recent @IUCNRedList updates that reveal them as the most threatened marine bony fish family: bit.ly/3lfjC1B (📷 Andrew Green, Ziebell's handfish, last seen ~2005)

World, meet Froggy! Froggy was named by the @echoview team in memory of Chris Bellears, 'a dearly missed colleague and friend who had a soft spot for the charismatic handfish'. We're sorry for your loss, but we appreciate the gesture and support (📸 Tyson Bessell)

Red #handfish raised in captivity at @IMASUTAS @UTAS_ as part of a #conservation strategy to bolster wild populations: 7mo old, 20 mm long. (📷 J. Stuart-Smith) #endangeredspecies