Wednesday, 9th November Australian Society for Fish Biology Conference 2022

Welcome

Invited Plenary 4: Katherine Cheshire

Invited Plenary 5: Michael Hammer

Combined Q&A

• Charting recovery during extreme and uncertain times - the role of science, leadership and a diversity of voices - Katherine Cheshire
• Taxonomy as the foundation and synapses for fish biology - Michael Hammer

• Reading the biomineralized book of life: Expanding otolith chemical research and applications for fisheries and ecosystem-based management - Patrick Reis-Santos
• Whole genome sequencing can transform Australian fish biology - Matthew McGee
• Using DNA barcoding to identify undersampled and threatened alpine freshwater crayfish species - Maggie J Watson
• Using environmental DNA to reconstruct target and by-product catch composition for fisheries vessels - Madeline Green
• Big fish, small fish, no fish; when size (and quality) matters for genetic species identifications of fishes? - Sharon A Appleyard
• Developing an eDNA tool for fish population monitoring in streams - Alexander Vaishampayan

• The doors are closed, but the windows are open: Fish parasites bypassing Australia’s biosecurity measures - Shokoofeh Shamsi
• How much screen time is too much for baby golden perch? - Patrick McSweeney
• Neophobic behavioural responses of parasitised fish to a potential predator and baited hook - Raf Freire
• Heating up cold-water fish to improve fishery outcomes in the NSW trout fishery      - Nathan Miles
• A systematic review of fish health assessment methods to inform research and management. - Max C Mallett
• Parasites of larval & juvenile freshwater fish of the Murray Darling Basin - Di Barton

• Getting modern fish-protection screens in rivers: principles for effective stakeholder engagement - Tom Rayner
• Nineteen year study into the ecological succession of an estuarine wetland following the staged opening of floodgates - Craig A Boys
• Performance of a fish protection screen at a gravity-fed irrigation diversion - Joachim Bretzel
• Fish passage in the Australian tropics - Geoffrey M Collins
• Recent advances to lift fish safely across barriers with Tube Fishways - Iain M Suthers
• Susceptibility of fish to entrainment through different irrigation infrastructure in the Fitzroy Basin - Michael J Hutchison

• How precise are estimates of spawning area and spawning biomass of sardine off southern Australia? - Gretchen Grammer
• Life history of the vulnerable Melbourne skate to inform fisheries management and conservation - Bailee Woolley
• The first age data for the commercial octopus species, Octopus berrima - Erica Durante
• Queensland’s commercial shark catch: monitoring insights and catch characteristics - Lenore Litherland
• Sailfish science: building collaborations to delineate the global population structure of a migratory pelagic fish - Laura Smith
• Carcharhinus tilstoni and Carcharhinus limbatus: An exploration of SNP markers in blacktip shark species in Queensland - Kate D Masci

ASFB Alien Fishes Committee Meeting: 12:30PM - 1:30PM in Phoenix Room

Fisheries Management Committee Meeting: 12:30PM - 1:30PM in Monaco II Room (Join virtually: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85778001970?pwd=YWxkKzVhY2VvUE5VY3ViVkQ4Y1cxZz09)

• EASI-Fish – A Flexible Catch-Independent Approach for the Quantitative Assessment of the Cumulative Impacts of Fisheries on Bycatch in Data-Limited Settings - Shane Griffiths
• Leveraging fishers’ bycatch avoidance skills to reduce impacts on elasmobranchs in industrial longline fisheries - Leslie A Roberson
• A 3D perspective on sediment turnover and feeding selectivity in blennies - Casey L Bowden
• Using conceptual models to build ecosystem understanding of an exploited embayment in Western Australia - Neil R Loneragan
• Predicting basin-scale population responses of Golden Perch to flow management using a stochastic metapopulation modelling approach - Henry Wootton
• Is my model fit for purpose? Validating a stochastic population model for predicting freshwater fish responses to hydrological scenarios - Robin Hale

• Forecasts of marine heatwaves for marine industries: reducing risk, building resilience and enhancing management responses - Jason Hartog
• The persistence of a key coral reef ecosystem function in a post-bleached world - Helen Yan
• Weedy (common) sea dragon strandings in Sydney in April 2022: causes and population impacts - David J Booth
• The acute and legacy impacts of marine heatwaves on fish growth in the Pacific Ocean - Jessica R Randall
• Northeast Victoria bushfire recovery monitoring - Jason Lieschke
• Black Summer Blackfish - rain is not enough - Matthew Beitzel

• Keynote: The National Recreational Fishing survey: a new way forward - Andy Moore
• Utilisation of creel surveys, boat ramp cameras and recruitment monitoring to inform the development of a harvest strategy for the Victorian recreational snapper fishery - Justin Bell
• Diving into digital data collection: the Fish MoDE app story - Peta Schofield
• The impact of management changes on the recreational fishery for Sand Flathead in Tasmania - Alexia Graba-Landry
• Moving from paper to digital data collection for recreational fishing: the Fisheries Queensland Boat Ramp Survey experience   - Tonia L Sankey

• Going beyond the effects of wildlife tourism on target species: does white shark cage-diving change the spatiotemporal distribution of silver trevally (Pseudocaranx georgianus) - Joshua D Dennis
• Effects of phylogeny and co-occurrence on the colour divergence of coral reef fishes - Thiago MJ Fiuza
• Marine life and fisheries associated with offshore oil and gas structures in southeastern Australia and possible consequences for decommissioning - Tiffany L Sih
• Spatially structured relationships between white banana prawn catch and riverine flow in the Northern Prawn Fishery, Australia - Mischa Turschwell
• Reconsidering the impossible: a size-based approach to the recruitment potential of larval fish cohorts - Iain M Suthers
• Key research priorities for the future of Australian fish and fisheries research - Bonnie J Holmes

• Model complexity in Moreton Bay bug and saucer scallop stock assessments - Montana Wickens
• Forgoing the distance: Assessing the suitability of new model-based multivariate analysis for fisheries science via an NSW ocean prawn trawl elasmobranch bycatch case study - Tom Barnes
• Habitat partitioning and machine learning help map species distributions in an iconic crustacean - Matthew McMillan
• Diel behaviour change and ontogenetic shifts of vagrant coral reef fish - Alexander Rigg
• Enhancing efficiency and robustness for BRUVS monitoring – a spatially balanced approach - Stacy L Bierwagen
• Multi-method approach to advance provenance determination for stocked fish - Susannah M Leahy
• The Australian Fish Chorus Catalogue: a collection of spectrographic and audio fish chorus records - Lauren A Hawkins

• Desiccation tolerance of river and floodplain mussels in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin  - Elka Blackman
• Fish in the wallum – a story of drought, fires and aliens - Luke Carpenter-Bundhoo
• Finding water: locating the remaining refuges for fish in Western NSW at the peak of the 2018-2020 drought - Karen F Danaher
• Menindee fish kill response activities and native fish recovery in the Lower Darling-Baaka - Iain M Ellis
• Three years of the Native Fish Recovery Strategy – what have we achieved and what is to come? - Stuart Little
• No time to lose, throwing caution slightly to the wind if we wish to conserve freshwater fishes - Peter Unmack
• Opportunism and revitalising of purple-spotted gudgeon (Mogurnda adspersa) populations following emergency rescue of an inland population - Mitch S Turner

This session will be followed by networking drinks at the Broadbeach Tavern (5:45PM).

Oasis Shopping Centre, Old Burleigh Rd, Broadbeach.

• Keynote: Does survey mode matter? Four cases studies comparing fisher demographics and fishing activity from telephone and web-based recreational fishing surveys - Karina Ryan
• Keynote: Integrating recreational fishing into harvest strategies: what do recreational fishers want and do we have the data to achieve it? - Ashley Fowler
• Facing up to the challenges of assessing Victoria's recreational fisheries   - Simon D Conron
• Estimating recreational catch - Manuela Mendiolar
• Post-release survival of swordfish (Xiphias gladius) in the southeast Australian recreational fishery - Barrett W. Wolfe
• Queensland fisheries interactive dashboards on recreational fishing and economics - Jessica L Baker
• Factors motivating participation and satisfaction of recreational fishers in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria - Simon Conron

• The luckiest catchment in the mdb: resilience lessons from the paroo - Adam Kerezsy
• Systematics, hybridisation and biogeography of Mogurnda in the Wet Tropics of Queensland - Samuel Amini
• Fishpass Design of the Xayaburi Hydroelectric Power Plant, Laos - Michael MRR Raeder
• Installing fish detection systems within the Xayaburi Run of River Power Plant - Lee Baumgartner
• Developing quality assurance practices for PIT tagging in the Mekong River - Thanasak Poomchaivej
• A pilot study of migrating fish in the Mekong river using acoustic tagging technology in southern Laos PDR - Wayne Anthony Robinson
• How useful?: A review of three fish-friendly irrigation guidelines written for the Lower Mekong - Nicolette L Duncan