Monday, 24th July Australian Society for Fish Biology Conference 2017
Registration Opens
8:00AM - 5:00PM
Monday, 24th July
Harbour Side Foyer
Environmental Stress and its Effect on Fish 1
8:30AM - 10:30AM
Monday, 24th July
PRT Stage
Chairs: Chris Hallett & Kathryn Hassell
- Environmental metabolomics provides insights into physiological responses of southern sand flathead in Port Phillip Bay - Sara Long
- Health status of sand flathead (Platycephalus bassensis), inhabiting an industrialised and urbanised embayment, Port Phillip Bay, Victoria as measured by biomarkers of exposure and effects - Jarrad K Baker
- The Montara oil spill, Timor Sea – two years of fish health monitoring - Marthe Monique Gagnon
- Fish dissection 101 – fish sampling considerations and how to produce hundreds of response endpoints - Kathryn Hassell
- Sharks, rays and abortion: the prevalence of capture-induced parturition in elasmobranchs - Kye R Adams
- Environmental drivers of growth and predicted effects of climate change on a commercially important fish - Joshua Barrow
- The influence of environmental factors on the habitat use of Black Bream Acanthopagrus butcheri and the implications of artificial oxygenation in the Swan-Canning Estuary - Jake Watsham
- Accelerometers reveal thermal performance regimes in free-ranging elasmobranchs - Karissa Lear
Diets and Trophic Interactions
8:30AM - 10:30AM
Monday, 24th July
Kalyenup 1
Chair: Ben French
- The great escape: are marine blennies using land to avoid predation? - Chris Fulton
- Top shelf bottom feeders - Food provisioning in stingrays - Joni Pini-Fitzsimmons
- Habitat connectivity exerts opposing effects on piscivory and browsing - Tyson SH Martin
- Latitudinal and ontogenetic variation in the diet of a pelagic mesopredator (Pomatomus saltatrix), assessed with a classification tree analysis - Hayden T Schilling
- Navigation and homing ability in a benthic shark - Sherrie L Chambers
Recent Advances in Stock Assessment and Management 1
8:30AM - 10:30AM
Monday, 24th July
Kalyenup 2
Chair: Malcolm Haddon
Sponsored by:
- Exploring model structure uncertainty using a general stock assessment framework: The case of Pacific cod in the Eastern Bering Sea - Andre Punt
- Data-Poor Stock Assessment Options for Australia - Malcolm Haddon
- The state of fisheries science in the early 21st century - A perspective from the future? - Brent Wise
- Empirical harvest strategy and tier system for the Torres Strait tropical lobster fishery - Eva Plaganyi
- Decision rules for quota setting to support spatial management in a lobster (Jasus edwardsii) fishery - Richard McGarvey
- Addressing limitations with catch curve assessments applied to data-limited fisheries - Alex Hesp
Morning Tea
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Monday, 24th July
Harbour Side Foyer
Environmental Stress and its Effect on Fish 2
11:00AM - 1:00PM
Monday, 24th July
PRT Stage
Chairs: Chris Hallett & Kathryn Hassell
- Genomic signatures of local adaptation reveal source-sink dynamics in a high gene flow fish species - Katherine Cure
- Climate-mediated changes to the distribution and density of reef fishes family pomacentridae in south-western australia - Tanika C Shalders
- The decline in abundance and diversity of Chaetodon butterflyfish and effects on sociality due to coral loss. - Cassandra A Thompson
- Direct versus indirect effects of climate change on coral reef fishes - Morgan S Pratchett
- Monitoring the response of large-bodied fishes to flood and drought using fishery catch compositions to provide baseline data - Greg Ferguson
- Multiple and opposing effects of urbanisation on estuarine fishes - Nicholas A Yabsley
- Drivers and symptoms of environmental stress among estuarine fish communities of southern Australia - Chris S Hallett
Fish Ecology
11:00AM - 1:00PM
Monday, 24th July
Kalyenup 1
Chair: Samantha Andrzejaczek
- Collecting broad scale ecological data with stereo video technology - Jordan S Goetze
- Assessing the impact of macrophyte density on underwater video camera monitoring of fishes in tropical wetlands - Bryan Baker
- An assessment of fish assemblages in Moorea’s marine reserve network using stereo-video techniques - Brooke Gibbons
- Habitat type and beach exposure shape fish assemblages in the surf zones of ocean beaches - Hayden P Borland
- Suitable surrogacy for decadal-scale conservation planning in a warming subtropical region with persistent patterns and shifting species - Hamish A Malcolm
- Advancing trait-based ecology of fishes by bridging the gap between marine and freshwater studies - Osmar Luiz
- Case study of using national on-line services to annotate and analyse underwater imagery: SQUIDLE+ and GlobalArchive - Tim Langlois
Recent Advances in Stock Assessment and Management 2
11:00AM - 1:00PM
Monday, 24th July
Kalyenup 2
Chair: Malcolm Haddon
Sponsored by:
- Spatial structure in stock assessments: results of simulation-estimation experiements - Andre Punt
- Review of minimum legal size limits for finfish in Western Australia - Patrick Cavalli
- Accounting for depletion levels in juvenile biomass when determining stock status - Fay Helidoniotis
- Accounting for sample size when estimating natural mortality from maximum age - Norman G Hall
- No tanking: estimating the age of pelagic fish eggs directly from field samples - Jonathan Carroll
- Fisheries Interaction Index: A Method Based on Catch And Spatial Data - Marcelo Reis
- Catch-per-unit-Effort: A Pig’s Ear or a Silk Purse? - Malcolm Haddon
Lunch
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Monday, 24th July
Harbour Side Foyer
AGM
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Monday, 24th July
Auditorium
Afternoon Tea
3:30PM - 4:00PM
Monday, 24th July
Harbour Side Foyer
Debate
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 24th July
Auditorium
Conference Bash
7:00PM - 11:00PM
Monday, 24th July
Time: 7:00pm
Date: Monday 24th July, 2017
Venue: The Boatshed, Princess Royal Dr, Albany