Monday, 8th October Australian Society for Fish Biology Conference 2018
Registration Opens
8:00AM - 5:00PM
Monday, 8th October
Skyline Lounge
Welcome
9:00AM - 9:30AM
Monday, 8th October
Skyline Room
Plenary
9:30AM - 10:30AM
Monday, 8th October
Skyline Room
Chair: John Morrongiello
Morning Tea
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Monday, 8th October
Skyline Lounge
Fisheries Management
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Monday, 8th October
Realm Room
Chair: Malcolm Haddon
Sponsored by:
- Managing quota in a multi-species, multi-gear fishery in Shark Bay WA - Rebecca Oliver
- Responding to changing demands in fisheries management, refocussing monitoring and assessment - George Day
- Fish, fisheries and environmental assessment and management - Marcus P Lincoln Smith
- Healthcheck for Australian Fisheries Sustainability - Richard Little
- Performance of Australian fisheries relative to target objectives - Nicholas Hill
Adaptive Management
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Monday, 8th October
Panorama Room
Chair: Katherine Cheshire
- Applied science in the era of ‘fake news’: are we moving forward or backward? - Jarod Lyon
- Influence of river flows on small-scale movements of Golden perch and Murray cod in the Namoi River: implications for water sharing planning. - Craig A Boys
- “Does anyone here speak water-ish?” – How the benefits of environmental flows get lost in translation. - Kylee Carpenter
- Friends with benefits when fish science met environmental water management - Heleena Bamford
- Meta-population model to inform the management of a once widespread flow dependent freshwater fish. - Charles Todd
Behavioural Responses
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Monday, 8th October
Vista Room
Chair: Robin Hale
- Recovery of threatened dwarf galaxias along Dandenong Creek, Melbourne - Rhys Coleman
- Using behavioural information to inform conservation of the threatened dwarf galaxias - Robin Hale
- Distinct behavioural responses of selected closely related New Zealand native galaxiids to progressive escapable hypoxia - Christine Ulrich
- The effects of hypoxia on Australian freshwater fish species - Bronwyn M Gillanders
- Effects of temperature on habitat use and home range patterns of coral trout Plectropomus leopardus on the Great Barrier Reef Australia - Molly E Scott
- Mixed-species Shoaling as a Behavioural Mechanism Facilitating the Survival of Tropical Fishes in Temperate Regions - Kai C. Paijmans
Life History and Evolution
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Monday, 8th October
Horizon Room
Chair: Brendan Ebner
- Understanding the effects of river flows on population connectivity and genetic viability of Australian freshwater fish species - Katherine Harrisson
- Live fast, die young? Mixed effects modelling reveals limited support for a pace-of-life syndrome in trout - Thomas A Schmitt
- Ecology matters: pace-of-life syndrome differs between two populations of eastern mosquitofish with divergent life history - Giovanni Polverino
- Niche construction by a farming fish & the natural selection of domestication - Rohan Brooker
- Life-history, ecology and demographics of the spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias) in an environmentally impacted estuarine environment - David Moreno
Lunch
12:30PM - 1:30PM
Monday, 8th October
Skyline Lounge
Fisheries Management
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Monday, 8th October
Realm Room
Chair: Ashley Fowler
- Reforming the South Australian Marine Scalefish Fishery - Jon Presser
- Best practice guidelines for Australian fisheries management agencies - Richard Little
- The role of partially protected areas as a conservation and management tool - April E Hall
- Evaluating fishery management strategies with the inclusion of a marine closure. - Jemery Day
- Adapting to challenges in a Western Australian abalone fishery - Shane Walters
- MSC certification as a driver for collaboration between science, management and industry – the WA experience. - Sascha Brand-Gardner
Adaptive Management
1:30PM - 2:45PM
Monday, 8th October
Panorama Room
Chair: Jarod Lyon
- Integrating diverse data types to improve predictions of size-structured population dynamics - Jian Yen
- Do fish respond to enhanced in-stream detritus? Using ecology to inform restoration - Gabriel L Cornell
- Fish and Flows: Developing objectives and targets for freshwater fish in NSW Long Term Water Plans - Katherine Cheshire
- Looking for larvae in a stressed river system – is adding water enough? - Stephen Balcombe
- Modelling the impacts of reservoir expansion on a threatened riverine fish - Scott Raymond
- Monitoring fish response to environmental flows in a northern Victorian river - Matthew Jones
Behavioural Responses
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Monday, 8th October
Vista Room
Chair: Bob Wong
- Abiotic drivers of Murray cod activity rates - Jason D Thiem
- Time-energy budgets derived from animal-borne instruments clarify the responses of fish to changing temperatures - Adrian Gleiss
- Accelerometers forecast behavioural response to climate change in critically endangered sawfish - Karissa Lear
- Effects of ocean acidification and warming on behavioral and metabolic traits of a large pelagic fish - Taryn D Laubenstein
- A growth-promoting agricultural pollutant alters ecologically important behaviours in fish - Michael G Bertram
- A psychiatric pollutant compromises antipredator behaviour in fish. - Bob BM Wong
Life History and Evolution
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Monday, 8th October
Horizon Room
Chair: Osmar Luiz
- Local larval retention and dispersal results in distinct environmental histories in a temperate reef fish - Stephen Swearer
- Recruitment and habitat use of juvenile fish in the challenging macrotidal environment of the kimberley - Camilla Piggott
- Evaluating the contributions of black bream (Acanthopagrus butcheri) spawning tributaries to year class strength in the Gippsland Lakes using otolith trace element fingerprinting - Oliver R.B. Thomas
- Within-season changes in otolith microstructure and chemistry expose the complex early life history of a temperate marine finfish - Troy A Rogers
- A new method for non-destructive high resolution oxygen isotope analysis of otoliths - Sarah Hearne
- Is critical speed the best measure of swimming capabilities for fish larvae? - Jeffrey Leis
Afternoon Tea
3:00PM - 3:30PM
Monday, 8th October
Skyline Lounge
Fisheries Management
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 8th October
Realm Room
Chair: Jon Presser
- Fisheries integration across the Pacific: Australia and Chile. - Claudio Castillo-Jordán
- Socially responsible stingray fishing rules - working with all stakeholders to achieve a balanced solution - Jo Klemke
- Enhancing the human nutrition and livelihood benefits from a small-scale, small-pelagic fishery - Kim Hunnam
- Keeping pace with market shocks - Blake Taylor
- Integrating customary rights into fisheries management - Shane Holland
Adaptive Management
3:30PM - 4:45PM
Monday, 8th October
Panorama Room
Chair: Zeb Tonkin
- Understanding the feasibility of using artificial habitats to protect galaxiid populations in yingina / Great Lake - David N Ikedife
- Continuing the recovery of barred galaxias - learning by doing - Lauren Johnson
- Immigration of silver perch into tributary streams of the Murray River and the influence of streamflow - Wayne Koster
- An application of flagship species and broad scale aquatic biodiversity indicators for potential water resource developments in northern Australia - Brendan C Ebner
- Screening the Cohuna Channel diversion to keep native fish in Gunbower Creek - Peter Rose
- Fish Passage in streams of the Gulf of Carpentaria, unique life histories driven by highly variable flow regimes - Tim Marsden
Behavioural Responses
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 8th October
Vista Room
Chair: Robin Hale
- Environmental change in early ontogeny influences cognitive ability in intertidal gobies - Penelope S Carbia
- Long-term changes in sociality of butterflyfishes linked to population declines and coral loss - Cassandra A Thompson
- Halos of fear the impact of predation threat on feeding behaviour of mesopredatory fishes around patch reefs - Emily Lester
- Seeing Red: The role of long wavelength sensitive cones in the visual ecology of bluestriped goatfish - Louise Tosetto
- Fatal Attraction: Factors influencing mate preference in the Running River Rainbowfish - Karl Moy
- Quantification of colour patterns reveals rapid differentiation and conflicting geographic range effects on reef fish colouration - Christopher R Hemingson
Biology, Ecology and Evolution
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Monday, 8th October
Horizon Room
Chair: Katherine Harrisson
- Seasonal dynamics of tidal pool fish community in the Seongsan of Jeju Island, Korea - Hyuck Joon Kwun
- Distribution, ecology and potential establishment of the non-native ocellate river stingray Potamotrygon motoro (Potamotrygonidae) - Jeffrey T.B. Kwik
- Dietary comparison of the tropical herbivore Siganus fuscescens and a range of temperate seagrass-associated omnivorous fishes - Casper S Avenant
- Exploring spatial heterogeneity of algal removal by herbivorous fishes on coral reefs - Robert P Streit
- The ecology of important subsistence fishery species under varying environmental conditions - Eva C McClure
- Damage-resilient Sargassum holdfasts are not targeted by herbivorous fishes - Zoe Loffler
Alien Species Committee meeting
5:10PM - 6:00PM
Monday, 8th October
Panorama Room
Student Night
6:00PM - 8:00PM
Monday, 8th October
Panama Dining Room