Tuesday, 6th September Australian Society of Fish Biology and Oceania Chondrichthyan Society Conference 2016
Opening comments
8:40AM - 8:45AM
Tuesday, 6th September
Plenary Hall
Keynote Presentation
8:45AM - 9:45AM
Tuesday, 6th September
Plenary Hall
Fish movement and population connectivity
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Tuesday, 6th September
Plenary Hall
Chair: Christine Dudgeon
- Fine-scale population structure and sex-biased dispersal of a highly philopatric coastal shark species - Jo Day
- Integrative approach to elucidating the population structure of coastal reef fish in northern Australia (Part I: Otolith chemistry) - Thor Saunders
- Integrative approach to elucidating the population structure of coastal reef fish in northern Australia (Part II: Parasite assemblages). - Di Barton
- Integrative approach to elucidating the population structure of coastal reef fish in northern Australia (Part III: Genetics and summary) - Laura Taillebois
Biology, Ecology and Behaviour
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Tuesday, 6th September
Tasman A
Chair: Jayson Semmens
- Could capture stress affect future reproductive outcomes in elasmobranch species? A case study: the southern fiddler ray, Trygonorrhina dumerilii. - Cynthia A Awruch
- Are sightings of fish outside their usual ranges early indications of climate-driven range shifts or false alarms? - Hannah E Fogarty
- Interactions between cleaners and client fishes - Kate S Hutson
- How does metabolic phenotype and social interaction effect growth disparity of Spiny Lobster? - Audrey Daning Tuzan
Trophic ecology, habitats and ecosystem modelling
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Tuesday, 6th September
Tasman B
Chairs: Heidi Pethybridge & Jordan Matley
- Trophic ecology of a whale shark aggreagtion at Ningaloo Reef (Western Australia), from stable isotope anlaysis - Lara Marcus
- Mucus in elasmobranch dietary studies using stable isotope analysis: preliminary findings from the giant manta ray - Katherine Burgess
- Determining the functional limitations of using fatty acid profiles for diet determination with punch biopsies and degraded tissue samples - Lauren Meyer
- Examining diet variation in euryhaline and coastal elasmobranchs using fatty acid and stable isotope biomarkers - Sharon L Every
Recreational and commercial fisheries
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Tuesday, 6th September
Tasman C
Chair: Sean Tracey
- Developing robust and cost-effective methods for estimating the national recreational catch of southern bluefin tuna in Australia - Andy Moore
- Using ramp cameras to assess recreational fishing effort - Michael D. Smith
- Improving the accuracy of recreational catch estimates with complementary surveys and auxiliary data on human dimensions - Fabian I Trinnie
- Managing for change: the Tasmanian recreational fishery for rock lobster - Jeremy M Lyle
Morning Tea
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Tuesday, 6th September
Exhibition Foyer
Fish movement and population connectivity
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Tuesday, 6th September
Plenary Hall
Chair: Michelle Heupel
- Crossing lines: a multidisciplinary framework for assessing migratory hammerhead sharks across jurisdictional boundaries - Andrew Chin
- Genetics: a vital tool for understanding connectivity and the ability of a threatened marine species (Maugean skate (Zearaja maugeana)) to withstand future challenges. - Kay Weltz
- Inferring contemporary and long-term genetic connectivity from juveniles. - Pierre Feutry
- Genome wide SNPs reveal fine-scale population substructure in School Sharks (Galeorhinus galeus) - Floriaan Devloo-Delva
- Microsatellites of megafauna: what does genetics tell us about Australian manta rays? - Amelia J Armstrong
- The Genetic Status of the Tiger Shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) in Australian Waters - Safia Maher
Fish research in action
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Tuesday, 6th September
Tasman A
Chair: Mike Steer
Sponsored by:
- Climate impacts and adaptation options for Australian fisheries – 25 years of progress - Alistair Hobday
- Key principles for undertaking marine research that enables knowledge exchange and evidence-based decision-making - Christopher Cvitanovic
- Evaluating how the Murray-Darling Basin Plan is helping native fish - Katie Ryan
- Using anglers to survey Murray cod: What’s the catch? - Patrick Ross-Magee
- What's the future for the small, threatened wetland fish Nannoperca australis (southern pygmy perch)? - Charles R Todd
- Elevation and waterfalls structure fish assemblages in short-steep-coastal-streams - Brendan C Ebner
Trophic ecology, habitats and ecosystem modelling
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Tuesday, 6th September
Tasman B
Chair: Heidi Pethybridge
- At the junction where predators, temperate reefs and marine resource management interact - Natasha A Hardy
- Trophic ecology of coral trout: Is one sampling approach enough? - Jordan K Matley
- Extreme inverted trophic pyramid of reef sharks supported by spawning groupers - Johann Mourier
- The trophic impact of an estuarine pelagic fish: a bioenergetics approach - Christopher Lawson
- Trout in a New Zealand river: Disturbers of the trophic peace or not? - Adam Canning
- Physical and biological changes during the filling of a temperate upland reservoir following its enlargement - Sally Hatton
Physiology
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Tuesday, 6th September
Tasman C
Chair: Gretta Pecl
- An alternative explanation for global trends in thermal tolerance - James A Smith
- Hypoxia tolerance in fish: assessing phenotypic diversity and temporal repeatability among populations - Geoffrey M Collins
- Efficiency and versatility underpin the global ecological success of a single fish genus in extreme coral reef habitats - Christopher Fulton
- Mechanistic understanding of climate driven range shifts: using thermal tolerances of rock lobster to predict future range shifts - Samantha Twiname
- Is acclimation achievable? Long-term effects of combined hypoxia and temperature exposure on three freshwater fish. - Kayla L Gilmore
- Adaptive divergence in swimming performance and body shape of river and isolated reservoir populations of Australian smelt (Retropinna semoni) - Daniel P Svozil
Lunch
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Tuesday, 6th September
Exhibition Foyer
OCS AGM
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Tuesday, 6th September
Plenary Hall
Fish movement and population connectivity
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Tuesday, 6th September
Plenary Hall
Chair: Madeline Green
- Love between my brothers and my sisters, all over this river. - Alan Couch
- How low do we go- the challenge of passing juvenile fish upstream in sub-tropical/tropical Australia. - Tim Marsden
- Cue but no follow- through: the challenge of movement opportunity in the northern Murray-Darling Basin - Kate Hodges
- Designing fishways for floodplain species of the Lower Mekong Basin - Lee Baumgartner
- Migration phenology and biomass estimation of upstream migrating prawn (Macrobrachium spinipes) in a tropical north Australian river - Peter A Novak
- Rehabilitating passage for migrating Galaxias (family: Galaxiidae) through a 70 m pipe-culvert - Frank Amtstaetter
Fish research in action
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Tuesday, 6th September
Tasman A
Chair: Scott Raymond
Sponsored by:
- Science informs restoration of a fragmented ecosystem: a fish passage case study from an estuarine barrage - Chris Bice
- Fish need water: Developing and delivering flows for fish - Anthony Townsend
- Sometimes fish need more than water: Supporting flow management with complementary actions to enhance fish outcomes - Iain Ellis
- Bush Blitz fish surveys across remote northern Australia: scientific discovery, management outcomes and community engagement - Michael Hammer
- Harnessing ecological knowledge to inform fish-flow management - John Koehn
- Dams, rainfall, fires and fish: the links and opportunities for building resilience. - Stephen Beatty
Biology, Ecology and Behaviour
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Tuesday, 6th September
Tasman B
Chair: Sean Tracey
- Sawfish in Papua New Guinea: what we know and where to next - William White
- Come find me: Defining habitats and habitat use for Chondrichthyans - Melissa C Marquez
- Reproductive cycle of Urolophus cruciatus in south-eastern Australia. - Fabian I Trinnie
- How do Port Jackson sharks find their home? - Catarina Vila Pouca
- Contextually-specific variations in white shark activity measured by 3D-acceleration logger - Charlie Huveneers
- Morphology of the electrosensory system of three sympatric dasyatids from Moreton Bay. - Arnault Gauthier
Physiology
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Tuesday, 6th September
Tasman C
Chair: Samantha Twiname
- Future ocean conditions and the development, physiology, and behaviour of shallow sharks - Jodie Rummer
- Too hot to handle? The use of movement by a benthic elasmobranch species, Hemiscyllium ocellatum, to aleviate effects of elevated temperature. - Connor Gervais
- Animal-borne video and accelerometers reveal high energy requirements of white shark breaching behaviour - Jayson M Semmens
- Caudal fin aspect ratio as a predictor of maximum swimming speed - Darcie E Hunt
- Bioelectrical impedance analysis, not your granddaddy’s condition factor - Joe Margraf
- The intersection between fish physiology and behavior in regulating microhabitat use - Tiffany Nay
Afternoon Tea
3:30PM - 4:00PM
Tuesday, 6th September
Exhibition Foyer
Rapid Student Talks
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Tuesday, 6th September
Plenary Hall
Chairs: Stephen Beatty & Stacy Bierwagen
Student-Mentor Mixer at the Metz
6:00PM - 8:30PM
Tuesday, 6th September
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