Demographic rates of juvenile corals are critical to reef recovery, yet their variation across environmental gradients remains understudied. Over three years, we assessed juvenile coral vital rates across the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and Torres Strait (TS), spanning 14° latitude and diverse inshore to offshore environments. Environmental conditions varied, with annual temperatures ranging 24–28 °C, high turbidity in the southe...

The Torres Strait tropical rock lobster Panulirus ornatus (TRL) fishery is of immense social, cultural and economic importance to the region’s Indigenous fishers from both Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG). During 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic indirectly impacted this fishery as well as a number of other fisheries reliant on international export markets. The TRL fishery is managed using an empirical (data-based) Harvest Contr...