Ever come across one of these on your fishing trip? It’s a spawning bristleworm! 🧐 😮 Bristleworms are a type of Polychaete worm, meaning ‘having much hair’. There are around 13,000 species of Polychaetes globally and some 195 species found in coastal Victoria and Bass Strait. They can live from just a few weeks, to several years! These guys reproduce on their own by expelling sperm or eggs into the water column, as this one is doing, simultaneously. A drop in temperature is thought to be the t