Mark McGrouther

Australian Museum CEO and Executive Director Kim McKay in conversation with Ichthyology Collection Manager Mark McGrouther at the Australian Museum Research Institute (AMRI). Mark started work at the Australian Museum in 1981 and over the next three decades he participated in over 30 expeditions within Australia and throughout the Pacific region. "Sydney harbour is, well I like to describe it as a marine jewel. It really is extraordinary, there is nearly 600 species recored from the harbour. And when you compare that with the mediterranean, it has more species that the mediterranean more species that all north western Europe combined, so we are sitting on a fish mine… "