Thursday, 21st November Australian Society for Fish Biology Conference 2024

• Connecting Traditions: Pairing Indigenous and Western Fisheries Knowledge. - Faith Ochwada
• Data and modelling for the good of fish - Hayden Schilling

Plus 25 minutes Q&A at the end of the session. 

• Aquatic Olympian: How fast can fish swim in fishways? - Yoel Jeremy
• Food for thought: Prioritising fish passage barriers to support human nutrition security is a new frontier - Nicolette Duncan
• Population dynamics of upstream-migrating juvenile anguillid eels in a hydropower-regulated tropical river in Indonesia - Vitas Prakoso
• Remote sensing in remote locations: A new approach to find and prioritise barriers to fish passage for conservation   - Hugh Allan
• Culvert baffle design to improve fish passage for small-bodied fishes: A rapid evidence synthesis - Paul Franklin
• Attracting fish into fishways - Bill Peirson

• Applications of AIML for catch detection in the Australian sub-Antarctic fisheries - Geoff Tuck
• AI/ML-Based Seabird Counting in the Wild for Conservation Compliance - Muhammad Saqib
• Harnessing artificial intelligence to inform length-based stock assessments and sustainable fisheries management in Tasmania. - Alyssa Marshell
• Population level welfare scoring for cage-cultured salmon, using hydroacoustic transducers and artificial intelligence - Sunil Kadri
• Novel use of deep neural networks on photographic identification of epaulette sharks (Hemiscyllium ocellatum) across life stages - Martina Lonati

Followed by a panel discussion

• Are beliefs more important than facts? Predicting recreational fisher support for conservation action - Alexander Vaishampayan
• Do Electrical Shark Deterrents Attract Sharks? Assessing the risks of an emerging animal management strategy - Casey O'Connor
• Latest Findings - Fisheries Depredation Research Queensland (FDRQ) Project - Jaeden Vardon
• Long-term harvest trends in the multispecies Queensland Sea Cucumber Fishery - Kristen L McSpadden
• Oyster Aquaculture in New South Wales: A Comparative Policy Analysis  - Nathaniel Hess

Lunch will be in The Avenue
The Annual General Meeting will be held in the Arena

• Design and monitoring of the first bypass fishway on a high weir in tropical Australia - Andrew P Berghuis
• Bromfield Street Weir Removal Project: The Ultimate Fishway! - Craig Reid
• Movin’ on up: Understanding pouched lamprey climbing behaviour to improve habitat connectivity at instream structures.   - Cindy Baker
• Piping hot fish passage: First attraction and transport of wild fish using a novel hydraulic fishway - Jasmin C Martino

• Bridging Technological Gaps in Taiwan's Sustainable Fisheries - Kuo-Wei Yen
• Smart approaches to surveying rec fishing facilities - Loeva Martin-Podevin
• Development of a machine learning toolkit to rapidly assess overgrazing impacts of sea urchin species in New Zealand and Australia - Ariell Friedman
• From Pixels to Insights: Unsupervised Learning in Tropical Fish Image Classification - Alexandru Mihai

Followed by a panel discussion

• Enhancing impoundment-based fisheries in New South Wales: a coordinated monitoring approach to promote sustainable stocking and management - Nathan Miles
• The Pacific longline tuna fishery – what you didn’t want to know - Patricia Kailola
• Improved fisheries management and aquaculture growth aligns with fewer shocks to Australian seafood production - Zoe Doubleday
• Molecular tools for enhanced traceability in the shark liver oil trade - Madeline Green
• Shifts in habitat suitability and seasonal movements of a top marine predator - Adrienne Gooden

Panel discussion to follow end of presentations

• Baseline Fish Community Assessment in the Fitzroy River  - Melinda Scanlon
• Fish passage in the Australian tropics – lessons from five seasons of fishway monitoring - Geoffrey Collins
• Opportunistic analysis of Murray River fishway function. - Thomas C Ewing
• Fish community change associated with fishway construction - Buchan Weir Rock Ramp Fishway - Tim Marsden

Panel discussion to follow end of presentations

Everyone welcome

Everyone welcome