Sunday, 23rd July Australian Society for Fish Biology Conference 2017

• Evidence for systemic age underestimation in shark and ray ageing studies - Alastair V Harry
• Quantifying shark depredation encounters while commercial, charter and recreational fishing in Western Australia - Gary Jackson
• Assessing variability in standardised harvest rates from shore-based recreational fishing surveys. - Alissa Tate
• Tailor tales: 18 years of monitoring wild harvest fisheries in Queensland - Lenore Litherland
• Cruising along or collapsing: what is the status of WA’s last cobbler fishery? - Kim Smith
• Reconstructing the footprint of an Australian penaeid-trawl fishery to support ecosystem-based management - Craig J Noell

The value of subsea infrastructure and artificial reefs to fish and fisheries

• Multispecies presence and connectivity around a designed artificial reef off coastal Sydney, Australia - Krystle Keller
• Ecological changes to the marine community after instalment of an artificial reef on the south-west coast of Western Australia. - Matthew Hammond
• Reef Vision: Recreational fishers monitoring artificial reefs using baited remote underwater video systems. - Michael Tropiano
• Insights into fish associations with various artificial structures in southwest WA - Paul D Lewis
• A comparison of fish assemblages associated with two gas flowlines and the adjacent seafloor. - Todd Bond
• Fish-habitat associations on subsea pipelines on the north-west shelf, Western Australia - Dianne McLean
• Seascape patterns and habitat differences explain spatial variability in nearshore temperate fish assemblages - Matt Rees

• The extent and adequacy of monitoring of Australian threatened freshwater fish - Mark Lintermans
• Using species distribution modelling to identify priority areas for conservation of freshwater fishes in southwestern Australia - Benjamin M Ford
• Multi-scale environmental processes influence juvenile recruitment success in a non-migratory fish - Mischa Turschwell
• Modelling population dynamics of fish in the MDB- from local to Basin-scale - John D Koehn
• Habitat use of fishes in a perennial tropical Australian River - Krystle Keller
• Quantifying links between instream woody habitat and riverine fish populations - Zeb Tonkin
• River flows support key life-history events of spotted galaxias (Galaxias truttaceus) in south-western Australia - Paul G Close
• Comparing fish body condition measures as indicators of fitness for two lowland fish species - Stephen R Balcombe

• There be Giants! How a new species of ocean sunfish managed to hoodwink the world - Marianne Nyegaard
• Comparative assessment of morphological and pigmentation characters during larval development of species of 10 genera of F. Gobiidae and two genera of F. Eleotridae - Tony Miskiewicz
• Regional variation in life-history strategies of penaeids and their resilience to changing temperatures. - Inigo M Koefoed
• Novel methods to assess long-term trends in size and age at maturity in fished stocks - Henry Wootton
• Genomics reveals patterns of dispersal for two reef fish with differing reproductive characteristics along the ecologically significant coast of northwestern Australia - Richard D Evans
• Coast to coast: population structure and connectivity of southern Australia’s only sciaenid, mulloway (Argyrosomus japonicus) - Tom Barnes
• Connectivity of fishes from the Kimberley region, Western Australia, using otolith geochemistry - Sarah Hearne
• Revisiting the analysis and interpretation of otolith chemistry studies for determining stock structure - Daniel Gaughan

Changes to macroalgal habitats – causes and consequences & 

The Great Southern Reef: ecology, value and threats

• Climatic conditions and seaweed habitat quality provide indicators of reef fish recruitment strength - Shaun K Wilson
• Ontogenetic shift of a commercially important endemic species, Lethrinus punctulatus, from nearshore macroalgal beds to offshore sessile invertebrate habitats - Michael Taylor
• Angelfishes hybridisation in Christmas Island: ecological and biological aspects - Federico Vitelli
• Can commercial harvest of the long-spined sea urchin, Centrostephanus rodgersii, reduce the impact of destructive urchin grazing on macroalgae communities and associated fisheries? - John P Keane
• Biology and dietary composition of the harlequin fish othos dentex in south-western australia - Ben French
• Fish ear bones record the bomb radiocarbon decline in an upwelling area off southern Australia - Gretchen L. Grammer
• Geographic distributions and assemblages of labrids along the south west coast of Western Australian over the past decade   - Jack Parker
• What is driving changes in size at maturity (L50) in Australia’s largest Southern Rock Lobster fishery? - Lachlan Mcleay

• Wet and dry season flows influence juvenile fish abundance in a tropical river - Alison King
• Visual census, photographic records and the trial of a video network provide first evidence of the elusive Sicyopterus cynocephalus in Australia. - Brendan C Ebner
• Estuarine specialist: the Stokell's smelt - Nicholas Ling
• Large scale population dynamics of a flow dependent enigmatic freshwater fish. - Charles R Todd
• Facilitating passage to spawning habitat for an endangered percichthyid - Ben Broadhurst
• Testing genetic models of dispersal and speciation in a tropical freshwater stream headwater-specialist, the Exquisite Rainbowfish (Melanotaeniidae: Melanotaenia exquisita) - Michael Hammer
• Hemi-clonal unisexual carp gudgeons (Eleotridae: Hypseleotris): systematic clarification of species boundaries and various hybrid lineages in southeastern Australia. - Peter Unmack
• Extreme genetic structure has conservation implications for Australian smelt (Retropinna semoni) in Queensland, Eastern Australia - Md Rakeb-Ul Islam

• One-way traffic: Black Bream passage through a storm surge barrier. - Stephen Beatty
• Freshwater catfish, Tandanus bostocki, move further and maintain larger home ranges during elevated flow in a regulated river, Western Australia - Daniel Gwinn
• Environmental triggers of migration in an urban population of Australian Bass - Culum Brown
• Skipped spawning by diadromous fishes drives the direction and extent of material subsidies across marine-freshwater ecotones - David Crook
• Acoustic telemetry reveals the contrasting ways in which four key fishery species use a south-western Australian Estuary - Daniel E Yeoh
• Vertical Migrations in fishes: how novel sensors elucidate the drivers of daily migrations in freshwater and marine environments - Adrian Gleiss

Ningaloo Reef: biology and ecology of fish inhabiting an Australian icon

• Links between coral morphological assemblage and fish communities at Ningaloo Reef - Anna K Cresswell
• Understanding how coral reef fish abundance and richness in Ningaloo Reef is influenced by habitat and other environmental predictors. - Renae Hoskins
• Considering multiple factors in assessing the effectiveness of a large-scale marine protected area for conserving targeted fish communities - Thomas H Holmes
• Baited video, but not diver video, detects a greater abundance of legal size target species within no-take areas at Ningaloo - Julia Haberstroh
• The significance of macroalgae to the diets of juvenile fish and ecosystem function in a tropical coral reef lagoon - Cameron Desfosses
• Different factors predict the distribution of two sympatric urchin species along a fringing coral reef: Ningaloo, Western Australia - Cindy Bessey

• The Wild West - David Morgan
• Good golly it’s a Molly! Did the mining downturn lead to the introduction of Poecilia latipinna to the Pilbara region of Western Australia? - Dean C Thorburn
• Responses of the fish community and biomass in Lake Ohinewai to fish removal and a carp exclusion barrier - Brendan Hicks
• Demonstrating the benefits of carp removal in the ovens river - Scott M Raymond
• Edwardsiella ictaluri is present in wild catfish in Australia - Alan Lymbery
• Molecular characterisation of a new species of Cryptosporidium in goldfish (Carassius auratus) - Cindy J Palermo

• Accelerometry reveals diel activity patterns in Port Jackson sharks, Heterodontus portusjacksoni  - Julianna P Kadar
• Broad-scale movements of white sharks in eastern Australia from acoustic and satellite telemetry - Barry Bruce
• Temperature-structured vertical movement behaviours in oceanic whitetip sharks - Samantha Andrzejaczek
• Albany a turning point for juvenile southern bluefin tuna? - Mark Chambers
• Vertical migration in the open ocean and its implications for the evolution of size in whale sharks - Mark Meekan

Ningaloo Reef: biology and ecology of fish inhabiting an Australian icon

• Impact of recreational fishing on fish and shark assemblages within the Ningaloo Marine Park - Tim Langlois
• Understanding and quantifying shark depredation in a recreational fishery - Jonathan D. Mitchell
• Using stable isotopes to understand ecology of sharks and fish at Ningaloo Reef - Mat Vanderklift
• The biogeography of tropical reef fishes: endemism and provinciality through time - Peter Cowman
• Movement and diving behaviour of Whale Sharks (Rhincodon typus) tagged at Ningaloo Reef - Richard Pillans

• Freshwater mussels as ecological engineers in permanent water refuges in southwestern Australia - Justin A Benson
• A complicated symbiosis: understanding the parasitic-mutualistic continuum between Temnocephala and spiny crayfish - Maggie J Watson
• The invasion of Running River and the story of its refugees. - Karl G Moy
• Variation of trophic dependence of different fish consumers in two mountain lake ecosystems from subtropical Taiwan - Rita S.W. Yam