Over the last few years Charlie Huveneers, a PhD candidate at Macquarie University, and Rob Carraro, doing his honours degree at Newcastle University, have been studying the wobbegong species of New South Wales, which are heavily targeted in ommercial drop-line fishing. They both noted that the ornate wobbegong Orectolobus ornatus appeared to be breeding at a size a great deal smaller than had been previously recorded. more ...