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Managed for Sustainabilty

Our fisheries are scientifically assessed and comprehemsively managed.

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Collection

Collection is what we do and know best. We collect for the aquarium supply community, for research and for education. Our specialist knowledge and large animal expertise is recognised world wide. The articles below provide an overview of the scope of our collecting activities and some background to the industry.

 

 

A Sawfish in Minnesota

Cairns Marine is renowned worldwide for our capacity to capture, handle, husband and transport large animals. Check out this remarkable journey...

Cairns Marine Capability - a complete solution

Cairns Marine is a one-stop-shop for all aquarium specimen supply needs. We are a uniquely positioned supplier in that our company controls our own supply chain from collection through to despatch to domestic customers; and to receipt at the port of entry in the destination country for our export customers.

Exploring the Coral Sea Depths - Collecting on Re-Breathers

Exploring the deep walls of the Coral Sea using rebreathers is opening up a new world to scientists and aquarists.

Resource Stewardship at Cairns Marine

Carins Marine sets the benchmark for stewardship of the natural resources in the aquarium collection industry.

What Do We Stand For?

Our ties with the sea extend back before the 1960’s. Our family set up one of Australia’s first public marine exhibit - the Cairns Oceanarium.  Today we connect with millions of people through public aquarium displays and the aquarium community...

Why buy hand caught fish?

The tragedy of the cyanide fish trade is that both the consumer and collector ultimately loses. Fishers are paid very little for their product and destroy their own reefs in the process. Only the middle-man wins.

Aquarists play a lead role in conservation

Aquarists spread an appreciation of our amazing marine environments to people far from the reef's edge. In large part our modern environmental crisis comes from the pressures that huge urban populations put on the natural world.

It's not easy for people in the middle of a city to see the connection between their lifestyles and the collapse of the environment.

The important role that aquarists and public aquaria play is to build enthusiasm and appreciation of the marine world on which we all depend.