NOTE ON THE CONSERVATION STATUS OF THE GIANT BULLY, GOBIOMORPHUS GOBIOIDES (TELEOSTEI, ELEOTRIDAE)

The giant bully has been reported over a wider range, increasingly oft en, and in higher abundance in recent years compared with the 1960s an d 1970s. These changes correlate with a change in the frequency with w hich various sampling methods have been used and the variety of habita ts fished. This corroborates assumptions that few records and low abun dance in the earlier years did not accurately reflect the species' dis tribution and abundance, but were a result of problems encountered in sampling brackish, estuarine habitats. Records now show the species to be very widespread and at least locally abundant at low elevations an d close to the sea.