Monday, 18th November Australian Society for Fish Biology Conference 2024

Welcome to Country

Conference Welcome & Presidents Address

• Future Fisheries: Frontier Technologies For Sustainable Management  - Catherine Ball

Briefing for session chairs and student award judges. 

All involved are required to attend. 

• Collapse of a data-rich fishery for Snapper (Chrysophrys auratus) - what went wrong - Anthony Fowler
• Understanding movement ecology to inform conservation management of freshwater fish - Wayne Koster

Plus 15 minutes of Q&A at the end of the session. 

• Good stock assessment practices when cost-constrained - Malcolm Haddon
• Improving the biological realism of assumptions in data-limited assessments - Alex Hesp
• Free Tools – not so “free”? The evolution, risks and costs of fishery stock assessment tools - Natalie A Dowling
• Quantifying unavoidable bycatch of rebuilding stocks in a multi-species, multi-sector fishery – a métier-based approach - Paul Burch

Panel discussion to follow end of presentations

• More than one way to build a fish – how functional divergence of Australian smelt challenges the form-function relationship   - Daniel P Svozil
• More than one way to be a planktivore: the vast morphospace of plankton-feeding reef fishes - Isabelle Ng
• Did marlin really eat that? An investigation into possible secondary predation in marine predator diet - Tristan Guillemin
• Global phylogeny of the perciform genus Acanthistius Gill, 1862, with revision of its placement in relation to Serranidae. - Younis Menkara
• The whole tooth: changes in tooth size and shape associated with ontogenetic changes in prey consumption by white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) in Australia. - Emily Hunt

Additional Chair: Qifeng Ye

• Australian freshwater cods: past, present and future. - John Koehn
• Body size dictates physiological and behavioural responses to hypoxia and elevated water temperatures in Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii) - Darren L McPhee
• Cod preferences for temporary accommodation during the breeding season - Brendan C Ebner
• Playing for time and space: telemetry reveals the behaviour of trophy Murray cod in an impoundment - Gavin L Butler
• Murray cod in the Lower River Murray: Past, present and future - Brenton Zampatti

• Tails of lobster stock assessment in Australia and the UK. - Genevieve A. C. Phillips
• Latitudinal mixing and movement of Eastern School Whiting (Sillago flindersi) in southeastern Australia indicated from otolith trace element chemistry - Karina C Hall
• Satellite telemetry reveals offshore movements and habitat use of mature-sized yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi) - Belinda K Goddard
• Evaluating predictability of catch in a highly mixed trawl fishery using stacked and joint species models - James Smith
• Implementing mandatory catch reporting for Tasmania’s recreational rock lobster fishery – Data collection and social perception one year on - Holly HR Rickards

Followed by a panel discussion

• Using chemical signatures in exoskeletons to recreate crustacean population structure - Adam Reade
• Is fish biology a dying art? There is still lots to discover, we just need to look harder. - Peter G. Coulson
• Diatom biomanipulation to reduce nutrients, improve water quality and increase food-web primary production in natural and aquaculture systems. - Simon JC Tannock
• Parasites associated with ornamental fish imported into South Africa: Are we in trouble? - Iva Prikrylova
• Fish using tools: Uncovering factors driving tool use evolution - Juliette Tariel-Adam

Panel discussion to follow end of presentations

Additional chair: Qifeng Ye

• A Decade of Progress: Update and Future Directions for Mary River Cod Conservation - Tom Espinoza
• Mary River cod assessment and recovery from extreme events in the Moonaboola - Luke Carpenter-Bundhoo
• Setting the trend: integrating long-term monitoring data to assess trends in riverine fish populations across Victoria - Zeb Tonkin
• Some stuff about genetics and evolution in Maccullochella - Peter Unmack

• Assessing the genetic health of stocked fish species in the Murray–Darling Basin  - Md Golam Sarwer
•   Large-scale fish biodiversity assessments using aquatic eDNA metabarcoding: The Great Australian Wildlife Search as a case study. - Haylo Roberts
• Identification of olfactory receptor genes driving pheromone detection in the invasive Eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki)  - Louise Tosetto
• Sailfish science: building collaborations to delineate the global population structure of a migratory pelagic fish - Laura Smith
• Integrative phenotyping reveals new insights into anemonefish adaptive radiation. - Manon Mercader

Additional Chair: Stacey Bierwagon

• Eco-morphology of shark electroreception - Casey O'Connor
• How can we motivate citizen scientists to help uncover the secrets of billfish? - Laura Smith
• Foraging for scraps - Loeva Martin-Podevin
• Ray ecology and behaviour in estuarine systems - Molly Grew
• Beyond the Bait: Comprehensive monitoring of fish communities on offshore artificial reefs - Stephanie Woolley
• Population dynamics of upstream-migrating juvenile anguillid eels in a hydropower-regulated tropical river in Indonesia - Vitas Prakoso

An annual conference highlight for our student delegates!

Date: Monday 18th November
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Queens Wharf Hotel
Cost: Free for registered students

Tickets must be selected by attending student at time of registration