Wednesday, 10th October Australian Society for Fish Biology Conference 2018

• Partnerships Underpin Sustainable and Responsible Recreational Fisheries - Steven Cooke

• Looking a little deeper: The importance of temperate mesophotic ecosystems to scientists, managers and recreational fishing - Joel Williams

• Do tropical reef fishes depend on seaweed meadow habitats? - Christopher J Fulton
• Unseasonal reductions in macroalgal canopy height have lasting effects on tropical fish communities - Joshua R van Lier
• Multi-scale habitat associations of serranid fishes across coral reef and macroalgal meadows at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia - David C Ellis
• Do tropical reef fishes exhibit foraging microhabitat preferences in macroalgal meadows? - Yi-Yang Chen
• The role of habitat composition in structuring the distribution of reef fish assemblages across a tropical to temperate gradient - Paloma A Matis

• Raising awareness of Australia’s most threatened freshwater fish: the compilation of a Red Hot Redlist - Mark Lintermans
• Statistical approaches to assessing threatened status in Australian freshwater fishes - Amy Tims
• Monitoring a critically endangered galaxiid by portable pit tag detection - Hugh Allan
• Identifying and addressing water chemistry differences affecting post-release survival of Snake River Sockeye Salmon smolts - Jesse Trushenski
• Assessing the benefits and risks of translocations in depauperate species: a case study of the conservation management of the critically endangered red-finned blue-eye, Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis. - Peter Unmack
• Were the New Zealand and Australian graylings (Prototroctes spp.) distinct species? - Gerry Closs

• Investigating the trophic ecology of a migratory benthic shark using stable isotope analysis - Sherrie L Chambers
• Fine-scale site fidelity and social network structure of a reef manta ray population - Robert JY Perryman
• Stingray sociality – A case study for the utility of heterarchical analysis in understanding animal societies - Joni Pini-Fitzsimmons
• Animal-borne video reveals novel habitat-use in white sharks - Oliver JD Jewell
• The cryptic lives of tiger sharks – hidden complexities and enigmatic behaviours in a three-dimensional realm - Samantha Andrzejaczek
• Project AIRSHIP: Spotting sharks using blimp-mounted cameras for conservation and human safety - Kye Adams

• Spatial complexity in abundance, size, age and sex in populations of Southern Garfish in South Australia - Anthony Fowler
• Long-term , inter-regional variation and drivers of growth in an iconic fisheries species - Jasmin C Martino
• The quantification of large-scale, systematic changes in rocky reef fish assemblages across the NSW Marine Park network using Baited Remote Underwater Video - Nathan A Knott
• Laying the foundations of South Australia’s Blue Infrastructure Initiative: Windara Reef Stage 1 - Sarah-Lena Reinhold
• Large-scale synchrony in NZ fish growth and its implications for fishery productivity - John Morrongiello

• Taxonomy to support biodiversity conservation of Australian rainbowfishes - Michael Hammer
• It’s now or never….the future of threatened small-bodied freshwater fishes in the southern Murray-Darling Basin - Nick S Whiterod
• Re-establishing Macquarie perch in the Ovens River: Actions, engagement and a novel evaluation approach - Zeb Tonkin
• Spawning habitat of Macquarie perch in the Cotter River, Australian Capital Territory. - Ben Broadhurst

• Fish are smarter than you think: Implications for welfare - Culum Brown
• Fish welfare standards in aquaculture - Melina Tensen
• A remote-operated vehicle reveals the effects of capture on post-release behaviours of sharks - Vincent Raoult
• The effectiveness of three common fish anaesthetics on the native estuarine fish, the Blue-spot Goby (Pseudogobius sp.) - Sarah McDonald
• Influencing attitudes of recreational fishers to interactions with Sharks and Rays - Keith Rowling

Objectives of workshop: This session draws on scientists, veterinarians, policy makers and animal welfare inspectors to discuss the issues of ethics and welfare around our treatment of fish.

Workshop outcomes: Work towards a consensus position for ASFB on fish welfare and potential recommendations for legislation.

• Degraded habitat increasing the susceptibility of resident fishes to disease - Leteisha Prescott
• Establishing best practice classification of shark behaviour from bio-logging data - Jenna L Hounslow
• Scent and sensibility: EE2 disrupts male mate choice in fish - Minna Saaristo
• Sex on steroids - Bob Wong
• The depths of winter. - Joshua Barrow
• Predation drives recurrent convergence of an interspecies mutualism - Rohan M Brooker
• How to count baitfish - the problem of too many fish - Kynan Hartog-Burnett
• The distribution, form and function of false eye-spots in coral reef fishes - Christopher R Hemingson
• Production to predation - the trophic ecology of pelagic ecosystems in the western Tasman Sea - Lucas Kas
• Variation in fish communities and feeding behaviour in response to boat moorings and seagrass density in an urban estuary  - Brendan S Lanham
• Does it matter who gets caught first? Behaviour selectivity of fishing - Clement Ng
• Age, growth and mortality of tailor (Pomatomus saltatrix) in eastern Australia - Hayden T Schilling
• Inside the otolith: the proteome of the fish inner ear - Oliver R B Thomas
• A fish can change its stripes: behavioural drivers of rapid colour change in bluelined goatfish - Louise Tosetto
• Conferred feeding efficiency benefit in Caribbean tube sponges from sponge-dwelling goby - Aldo Turco
• Oxygen consumption profiles and critical oxygen concentrations indicate distinct hypoxia tolerance in selected closely related New Zealand native galaxiids     - Christine Ulrich
• Ageing gracefully: Determining the age of fish around Heard Island and McDonald Islands on the Kerguelen Plateau - Tom Barnes
• Genetic differentiation and population structure of gizzard shad Konosirus punctatus in Korea and Japan - Wooseok Gwak
• Australasian fishes an online resource for everyone. - Amanda C Hay
• Performance of Australian fisheries relative to target objectives - Nicholas Hill
• Business as usual for the human use of Moreton Bay Marine Park - Rob A Kenyon
• Australian fisheries management system  - Nastaran Mazloumi
• Where have we been, where are we going? 10 years into the recovery of an important demersal scalefish resource in Western Australia. - Shane Walters
• Field Manuals for Sampling to Monitor Australian Waters - Joel Williams
• Coping with Climate Change: effect of dietary fat content on the thermal tolerance of barramundi - Daniel F Gomez Isaza
• How regional fishery bodies have responded to climate change - Gretta T Pecl
• Physical trade-offs shape the evolution of buoyancy control in sharks - Adrian Gleiss
• Cryptic habitat use of white sharks in kelp forest revealed by animal-borne video - Oliver Jewell
• Hydrology drives fish condition comparison of a wet dry tropical river with an arid zone river - Stephen J Faggotter
• Investigating habitat values of Halophila ovalis and Chaetomorpha linum in the Swan-Canning Estuary - Shanna Fulwood
• Moving numbers: innovative models for fish telemetry - John Morrongiello
• Social licence and citizen science: Potential and progress - Gretta T Pecl
• Carppooling – carp removal during infrastructure upgrades in Canberra - Matthew Beitzel
• Comparison of catch rates and catch composition among research-angler diary and fishery-independent survey methods - Simon D Conron
• The boy can dance: Ritual courtship of the Opal cling goby - Brendan C Ebner