Wednesday, 20th November Australian Society for Fish Biology Conference 2024

• Long-term movement ecology and habitat use of threatened Speartooth Sharks Glyphis glyphis to inform management. - Julia Constance
• Ungrateful Australian lungfish eating themselves out of house and home - Colin L Burke
• Non-lethal age estimation of Australian bass (Percalates novemaculeata) to inform fisheries management and conservation. - Josh J Whiley
• Mitigating threatened species bycatch in commercial gillnet fisheries - Joni Pini-Fitzsimmons
• Genomic tools for connectivity assessment and adaptation potential in the spotted handfish (Brachionichthys hirsutus) - Sharon Appleyard

Followed by a panel discussion

• Flow Velocities to Improve Dissolved Oxygen Concentrations in the Darling-Baaka River and Reduce Fish Deaths - Donald C Davis
• Flow management options for the Lower Darling-Baaka River to improve ecological outcomes - Simon Mitrovic
• Sediments, parasites and golden perch: what happened in the most recent Menindee fish kill? - Matthew Balzer
• Fixing the roof when the sun is shining – responding to extreme events in less extreme ways - Cameron Lay
• Cold water pollution mitigation at a large dam via bubble plume destratification - Matthew Gordos
• Chilling consequences: navigating cold water pollution and fish recruitment in the Murray-Darling Basin - Laura Michie

• Drone-based habitat use of rays in estuarine systems - Molly Grew
• Snails pace: nomadic movement of a harvested rocky shore gastropod - Kate M Seinor
• Unravelling cryptic bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) ecology to inform shark control in Australia - Bonnie Holmes
• Fish passage prevention as a goal - the Tantangara Creek Fish Barrier - Lizzie Pope
• Combining telemetry and fisher knowledge to investigate movement and habitat preferences of oceanic whitetip and silky sharks around the Central Pacific  - Molly E Scott

• Challenges and risks facing Australian fisheries: potential solutions - Daniel Corrie
• Transforming Fisheries Management: A Case Study of the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF) - Wez Norris
• What research is needed to address challenges facing wild-capture fisheries? - David c Smith
• Using the NSW Marine Estate Management Strategy to prioritise the use of Fisheries resources - Thor Saunders
• Challenges to the stock assessment community: helping build stock assessment capacity in Australia - Catherine M. Dichmont

Followed by a panel discussion

• Apollo Marine Park: A shark and ray hotspot? - Sasha Whitmarsh
• Deep trouble for Australia's deep water sharks & rays - Leonardo Guida
• Environmental drivers of abundance of key Australian shark and ray species - Leanne Currey-Randall
• What's in a saw? An exploration of the chemical fingerprint of rostral teeth to gain insights into sawfish life history and spatial ecology  - Veronika N Biskis
• Cashing in on Conservation: The Blue Economy of Manta Ray watching in the Maldives - Hannah Moloney

Followed by a panel discussion

• Using eDNA to assess how estuarine fish communities respond to consecutive extreme events of drought, bushfire, and post-fire flood - Jessica A Tout-Lyon
• When it rains it pours: native fish responses to a major flood in a drying climate - Ruby Stoios
• Big flood, bad outcome  - John Trethewie
• Fish out of water: Climate change threats to drought refuges in Australian dryland rivers - Jonathan C Marshall
• A statistical framework for predicting the water temperature of freshwater rivers and streams - Patricia Koh
• Consequences of a prolonged estuary mouth closure on a temperate marine fish - George C Giatas

• How radiogenic isotopes could support fisheries science - Arieli Tristao Rezio
• Elevated discharge reconnects a fragmented riverscape facilitating long-distance migration of a potamodromous fish - Jason Thiem
• Unravelling estuarine fish connectivity: A multi-disciplinary approach - Patrick Reis-Santos
• Seasonal movement patterns and habitat use of striped marlin (Kajikia audax) and black marlin (Istiompax indica) in the northwestern Pacific Ocean - Wei-Chuan CHIANG

• Assessing the environmental performance of Australia’s fisheries: trends, challenges and evolving information needs. - Brian Page
• Benthic impact pathways and data supply chains to inform offshore renewable energy developments in southern Australia - Alan Jordan
• Ecological Risk Assessments in Commonwealth fisheries – a 20+ year review - Miriana Sporcic
• Developing and testing a multi-species harvest strategy for the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery - Paul Burch

Followed by panel discussion

Everyone welcome

• The importance of off-river areas for fish in the mid and lower Lachlan catchment of the Murray-Darling Basin: three case studies - Adam Kerezsy
• Maccas on a knife edge: genetics reveals the parlous state of NSW’s biggest Macquarie perch population - Mark Lintermans
• Fish Jenga: applying metapopulation principles to water management for coastal river fishes - David Crook
• The 10 in TEN program for recovering our threatened aquatic fauna – an update - Jarod Lyon
• From Droughts to Floods to Recovery: Revealing complex influences of large dams on the habitat of the Threatened Australian Lungfish - David T Roberts

• Growth response of an estuarine fish to past and present environmental conditions - Koster G Sarakinis
• Extreme heatwaves in summer have the largest impact on the metabolism of a temperate marine fish - John Morrongiello
• Global resilience of reef fishes despite multiple bleaching events - Pooven Muruga
• Ecological generalism and physiology mediate species biogeographic ranges under ocean warming - Chloe Hayes
• The gut microbiome and host molecular response of a grouper to a marine heatwave - Roger Huerlimann

• A step-by-step guide to ageing octopus: bridging critical knowledge gaps for sustainable fisheries management  - Louise Hosking
• Comparison of the larval development of 5 genera of clingfishes (F. Gobiesocidae) from south-eastern Australia - Tony Miskiewicz
• Reconsidering the impossible: a size-based approach to the recruitment potential of larval and juvenile Pacific hake (Merluccius productus) - Iain M Suthers
• Applications of otolith oxygen isotope analysis for age validation in fisheries assessment - Melissa Tan
• Assessing drivers of freshwater fish recruitment variation infloodplain environments - William Mr O'Connor

• Sea Change Australia: Co-developing Climate Adaptation Pathways for Australia’s Fisheries and Aquaculture - Gretta Pecl
• Implications of climate change on harvest strategies: A perspective from the front lines - Pia Bessell-Browne
• Supporting climate adaption in Australia’s seafood sector: climate and ecosystem status reports - Stephanie Brodie
• Integrating Climate Change into Fisheries Management: A Risk-Based Approach - Daniel Corrie

Followed by a panel discussion

• How to train your seahorse: can captive-bred White’s seahorses, Hippocamus whitei, learn to avoid predators for conservation-stocking? - Mitchell Brennan
• Mapping Walking Sharks: New Distribution Insights for Site-Associated Species in Papua New Guinea - Jessica Blakeway
• An investigation into the replacement of Malanda rainbowfish by Melanotaenia spllendida through introgression - Karl G Moy
• Southern Pygmy Perch in the Upper Billabong Creek: Rehabilitation Leads to Recovery - Tim Marsden
• Using information on species’ ecology to optimise eDNA sampling for the nationally threatened Australian grayling - Dylan van der Meulen

Followed by a panel discussion

• Preparing fisheries for an unforgiving climate: lessons from the north - Laura K Blamey
• Application of marine heatwave forecast information is dependent on industry agility - Jason Hartog
• Forecasting a summer of extremes: Building stakeholder response capacity to marine heatwaves - Alistair Hobday
• Using otoliths to understand how marine heatwaves affect fish growth - Jessica R Randall

• Investigating age and growth dynamics of the common gurnard perch; an emerging recreational fishery species in Tasmania  - Samantha Roser
• Age and growth of kawakawa (Euthynnus affinis) in the Indian Ocean - Irwan Jatmiko
• Using copepod community data to improve models of larval fish abundance - Joshua J. R. Esman
• Basin-scale management of water and fish: sensitivity analysis to refine a metapopulation model of Golden Perch. - Charles R Todd
• Deciphering larval dispersal for southern rock lobsters across Australia to guide management - Katie A Cresswell

• Machine learning applications to electronic monitoring in Australia's marine fisheries - Geoff Tuck
• The potential for eDNA methods to be used for fishery-independent estimates of fish biomass - Meaghan L Duncan
• Snapper Science Program - supporting the recovery of an iconic fishery species - Troy A Rogers
• Genetic Analysis and Risk Assessment Framework for Greenlip Abalone Stock Recovery in South Australia - Stephen Mayfield