Wednesday, 7th September Australian Society of Fish Biology and Oceania Chondrichthyan Society Conference 2016
Opening comments
8:40AM - 8:45AM
Wednesday, 7th September
Plenary Hall
Keynote Presentation
8:45AM - 9:45AM
Wednesday, 7th September
Plenary Hall
Fish evolution, phylogeny and systematics
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Wednesday, 7th September
Plenary Hall
Chair: William White
- Fish Phylogenetics: Swimming into the 21st Century - Peter F Cowman
- Population genomics & taxonomy in Australasian fishes: the five Ws and one H (what, why, when, where, who and how) - Sharon Appleyard
- Australia’s diverse eel fauna: a preliminary overview of their taxonomy and biogeography - John J Pogonoski
Monitoring and observing systems, environmental data and applications to fish and fisheries
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Wednesday, 7th September
Tasman A
Chair: Rudy Kloser
Sponsored by:
Recreational and commercial fisheries
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Wednesday, 7th September
Tasman B
Chair: Jeremy Lyle
- Refining a Nordmøre-grid for the Spencer Gulf prawn-trawl fishery - Craig Noell
- Inter-annual and regional variation of fish in prawn trawl by-catch: The importance of temporal replication for identifying potential trawl related impacts - Owen Burnell
- Methods for determining in situ target strength - Ben Scoulding
- Variability in Atlantic mackerel target strength and its effects on acoustic abundance estimates - Ben Scoulding
The emergence of socio-ecology in fish and fisheries research
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Wednesday, 7th September
Tasman C
Chair: Karen Alexander
- Transitioning to a brave new world: the need for, and challenge of, interdisciplinary research. - Stewart Frusher
- Feedbacks as a bridging concept for advancing transdisciplinary sustainability research - Kirsty L Nash
- Developing knowledge and tools to inform integrated marine management: Spencer Gulf as an Australian case study - Bronwyn Gillanders
- In the water with white sharks - Charlie Huveneers
Morning Tea
11:00AM - 11:30AM
Wednesday, 7th September
Exhibition Foyer
Fish evolution, phylogeny and systematics
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Wednesday, 7th September
Plenary Hall
Chair: Michael Hammer
- A review of the Ocean Sunfishes (Family Molidae) in Australia and New Zealand, using genetics and fisheries by-catch data - Marianne Nyegaard
- Who’s your mama? Riverine hybridization of threatened freshwater trout cod and Murray cod. - Alan Couch
- Lates calcarifer immune transcriptome reveals the Mincle C-Type Lectin Receptor as a partial replacement for TLR4 in LPS recognition in fish - Emmanuelle Zoccola
- Asexual reproduction in elasmobranchs: who needs claspers anyway? - Christine L Dudgeon
- Variability in multiple paternity rates for grey reef sharks (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) and scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini) in Papua New Guinea - Madeline E Green
- Population structure and phylogeography of the Galápagos shark (Carcharhinus galapagensis) across the Pacific. - Diana A Pazmino
Monitoring and observing systems, environmental data and applications to fish and fisheries
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Wednesday, 7th September
Tasman A
Chair: Patrick Lehodey
Sponsored by:
- Using fishing vessels for basin-scale ecological monitoring using bio-acoustics and the continuous plankton recorder - Rudy J Kloser
- Coastal ocean observations for fisheries - Charitha Pattiaratchi
- Physical oceanographic influences on tropical reef and continental shelf fish from IMOS observations. - Craig Steinberg
- A biogeography of the mesopelagic zone based on estimated myctophid biomass within Deep Scattering Layers - Roland Proud
- New data and models to resolve ecosystem status and trends on the Kerguelen Axis in the Southern Indian Ocean - Rowan Trebilco
- Looking into the future: seasonal to multi-year forecasts for fish and fisheries - Alistair Hobday
Recreational and commercial fisheries
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Wednesday, 7th September
Tasman B
Chair: Emily Fisher
- Mulloway anglers or citizen scientists? - Lauren J Veale
- Aspects of the age, growth and reproductive cycle of tailor (Pomatomus saltatrix) in eastern Australia - Hayden T Schilling
- A cracking new improvement in the daily egg production method: Using in situ hybridisation for discerning Chrysophrys Auratus eggs and larvae. - Mike Steer
- Stochastic demographic analyses of the silvertip shark (Carcharhinus albimarginatus) and the common blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus) from the Eastern Indo-Pacific - Jonathan Smart
- Catch composition of a traditional Indonesian shark fishery operating off north-western Australia - Grant J Johnson
- Arthurs Lake – estimating the trout population size of a large impoundment fishery. - Tim Farrell
The emergence of socio-ecology in fish and fisheries research
11:30AM - 12:45PM
Wednesday, 7th September
Tasman C
Chairs: Stewart Frusher & Kirsty Nash
- Bridging the Land-Sea divide for future food security. - Richard S. Cottrell
- Environmental and socio-political shocks to the seafood sector: what does this mean for resilience? Lessons from two case studies, Atlantic mackerel and Atlantic salmon - Karen A Alexander
- Relationships between Maori freshwater values and flow: developing tools for incorporating cultural fisheries values into flow management decisions. - Shannan K Crow
- Creating outcomes for Maori communities and taonga freshwater fisheries through collaborative research partnerships - Erica K Williams
- Development of a Harvest control rule (HCR) for Australia’s Torres Strait tropical rock lobster (TRL) fishery - Roy Deng
Socio-ecology Discussion Group
12:45PM - 1:00PM
Wednesday, 7th September
Tasman C
Chairs: Stewart Frusher & Kirsty Nash
Lunch
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Wednesday, 7th September
Exhibition Foyer
ASFB AGM
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Wednesday, 7th September
Fish movement and population connectivity
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, 7th September
Plenary Hall
Chair: Jennifer Ovenden
- Hangin in ya PJs: Social networks in Port Jackson sharks - Culum Brown
- Crossing paths and time budgets: pelagic sharks and human activities in Spencer Gulf and the Great Australian Bight - Paul J Rogers
- Using an individual-based simulation of kinesis, advection and movement behaviours in Pacific skipjack tuna to examine assumptions in stock assessment - Joe Scutt Phillips
- Determining demographic processes responsible for dramatic changes in South Australia's snapper fisheries - Anthony Fowler
- Partial migration of grey mullet (Mugil cephalus) on Australia’s east coast revealed by otolith chemistry - Ash Fowler
- Temporal and spatial variation in strontium in a tropical river: implications for otolith chemistry analyses of fish migration - David Crook
Monitoring and observing systems, environmental data and applications to fish and fisheries
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, 7th September
Tasman A
Chair: Ana Lara-Lopez
Sponsored by:
- Seasonal forecasting of dolphinfish distribution in eastern Australia to aid recreational fishers and managers - Stephanie Brodie
- Creating win-win scenarios for longer term monitoring of the marine domain? - Stewart Frusher
- Baited Underwater Video for an integrated monitoring network: Developing indicators and an appropriate national framework. - Neville S Barrett
- Look out behind! Are additional cameras in baited video worthwhile? - Sasha K Whitmarsh
- Converging new technologies allow improved methods for tracking sharks and acquiring contemporaneous environmental data. - Kim Holland
- Use of baited remote underwater video systems (BRUVs) to estimate presence and size of juvenile white sharks Carcharodon carcharias - David Harasti
Recreational and commercial fisheries
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, 7th September
Tasman B
Chair: Jeremy Lyle
- The evolution and influence of Commonwealth fishery and stock status reporting - Lee Georgeson
- The status of Australia's fish stocks in relation to the total catch and economic value - Fay Helidoniotis
- Twenty-Five Years of Quota Management of Australia’s South-East Fishery – Success or Failure? - Kevin Rowling
- Using MSC certification of a commercial and recreational crab fishery in Western Australia to achieve social licence - Emily A Fisher
- Management Strategy Evaluation for a Multi-Sector Highly Variable Fishery: the South-East Australian ‘Western’ Snapper Stock - Athol Whitten
- Effects of climate change on coral trout and associated fisheries - Morgan Pratchett
Invasive species: impacts, detection and control
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, 7th September
Tasman C
Chair: Ben Broadhurst
- Establishment risk models highlight biosurveillance priorities for New Zealand lakes - Nicholas Ling
- Characterisation and aetiology of Jelly-like gonad condition (JGC) in the common carp, Cyprinus carpio (L) - Raihan Mahmud
- The Capture of Invasive European Carp in Lake Sorell, Tasmania - Chris Boon
- Assessing maturity of Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio) in Lake Sorell to determine spawning capability and susceptibility to varied fishing techniques. - Christopher D Bowen
- The shift in behaviour of European carp in Lake Sorell, Tasmania - Jonah L Yick
- Sustained Exclusion of Koi Carp (Cyprinus carpio) from Lake Ohinewai, New Zealand - Grant Tempero
Afternoon Tea
3:30PM - 4:00PM
Wednesday, 7th September
Exhibition Foyer
Fish movement and population connectivity
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 7th September
Plenary Hall
Chair: David Crook
- Application of an acoustic positioning array to investigate 3-dimensional habitat utilisation by an air breathing fish (Neoceratodus forsteri) in a seasonally stratified riverine impoundment. - David T Roberts
- Understanding eel behaviour to aid the development of downstream migration options for short-finned eels - David N Ikedife
- Will they stay or will they go? The occupancy and population dynamics of Murray cod in a cold-water impacted River - Zeb Tonkin
- Did the fish cross the road, and if so, why? - John R Morrongiello
Monitoring and observing systems, environmental data and applications to fish and fisheries
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 7th September
Tasman A
Chair: Brendan Ebner
Sponsored by:
- More sharks in the north: Shark diversity and abundance along the Great Barrier Reef - Leanne M Currey
- Opening the floodgates to fish and prawn recovery in a temperate coastal wetland. - Craig A Boys
- Native fish use of engineered habitats - Matthew Beitzel
- Fish community condition in the Koondrook-Perricoota Forest, a large lowland river floodplain forest. - David Hohnberg
Threatened species
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 7th September
Tasman B
Chair: Mark Lintermans
- Stairway to heaven or highway to hell: the pathway to recovering threatened freshwater fish in Australia. - Mark Lintermans
- Genetic structure and effective population size of the river blackfish in their most northern catchment suggests their long-term population viability is threatened - Stephen Balcombe
- Emergency efforts to conserve Running River Rainbowfish from extinction - Peter Unmack
- Are specific populations of key threatened MDB fishes native or introduced? - Peter Unmack
Invasive species: impacts, detection and control
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 7th September
Tasman C
Chair: Nicholas Ling
- Trojan Y genetic control of the invasive fish Gambusia holbrooki: rationale, progress, challenges and management realities. - Jawahar G Patil
- Understanding and managing Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) in the Glenelg River, Victoria, Australia. - Leigh Thwaites
- Response of size and abundance of redfin perch to successive removals - Brendan J Hicks
- Alien fish response to enlargement of a temperate reservoir - Ben Broadhurst
Ferry Depart from Wrest Point to MONA
5:50PM - 6:00PM
Wednesday, 7th September
Conference Dinner at MONA
7:00PM - 11:00PM
Wednesday, 7th September
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1st Trip from MONA return to Wrest Point
9:30PM - 10:15PM
Wednesday, 7th September
2nd Trip from MONA return to Wrest Point
11:10PM - 12:00AM
Wednesday, 7th September