Dr Beach and Anth are in the studio this week with many a marine story.

Mark Rodrigue (Friends of Barwon Bluff, Victorian Protected Areas Council) will be joining us to talk about the ecological importance of our Southern Rock lobsters and the risks they face. Despite increased numbers of this keystone species in our Marine Protected Areas, local communities are repeatedly witnessing poaching in no-take zones. Combined with a reduction in compliance officers, this bad behaviour challenges any ongoing increase in lobster population size back to sustainable numbers. If you see it, call 13 FISH to report it.

For the last couple of years South Australia has experienced a HAB - a Hazardous Algal Bloom, and the Premier declared it done this week. If RRR were in Adelaide you would have heard nothing else for recent years but the rest of Australia hasn't really been across this story (certainly as much as our SA friends would like)! We will do a little bit of HAB 101, talk about what, where and hopefully why. And are there any climate signals in this?

Finally Dr Prue Francis, Senior Lecturer in Marine Science and Professional Practice at Deakin Uni joins us live for an update on Ocean Literacy. There has been a world first global survey, and some very cool work in Victorian primary schools, plus much more to catch up about our ocean literacy.