Baited Remote Underwater stereo-Video (stereo-BRUVs) are being increasingly adopted as a standard marine biodiversity monitoring tool. I will present a review paper summarising the growth of the method, standard practices and new frontiers in research, both internationally and around Australia.
Building on the work of early adopters like Mike Cappo, Euan Harvey and Hamish Malcolm, I will chart how stereo-BRUV data is now being used to characterise and track change in fish assemblages and benthic habitats in various complimentary forms. I will talk about some of the positive and negative lessons learnt from recent work to synthesise data sets around Australia and describe new work to inform fisheries assessments, ocean accounting, and both state of the environment and marine park reporting.