Tuesday, 1st July Australian Society for Fish Biology & Australian Society for Limnology 2014 Joint Congress
Registration Open
8:00AM - 5:00PM
Tuesday, 1st July
Ground Floor Foyer
Introductions & Housekeeping
8:30AM - 8:45AM
Tuesday, 1st July
Waterfront Plenary Room
Plenary - Kerry Propser & Jane McMillan
8:45AM - 9:55AM
Tuesday, 1st July
Waterfront Plenary Room
Chair: David Crook
Plenary - Julian Williams
9:55AM - 10:30AM
Tuesday, 1st July
Waterfront Plenary Room
Chair: David Crook
Morning Tea & Poster Session
10:30AM - 11:30AM
Tuesday, 1st July
Ground Floor Foyer
Sponsored by:
- Ecological impacts of extraction during summer low flows on pool refuges in South Coast NSW - Robyn Bevitt
- Connecting science with management in a multi-tenure, cross-border landscape - Strategic Adaptive Management in the Lake Eyre Basin - Sonia Colville
- Performance of Small Mesh Drift nets in Rivers - Alan Couch
- Environmental drivers of depth use by an exploited reef fish - Leanne M Currey
- Persistent Waterholes in an Arid-zone River – Surprising Diversity and Abundance on the mid-Finke - Angus Duguid
- What’s the angle? Could trout angling benefit threatened native fish species in the ACT? - Lisa Evans
- Investigating trophic role of roving apex predators in tropical estuaries across space and time of northern Australia: a case study with euryhaline elasmobranchs - Sharon L Every
- WHEN COMMON SPECIES BECOME RARE: FRESHWATER MUSSELS IN THE HAWKESBURY-NEPEAN RIVER - Caroline A Forest
- Long term water quality monitoring in the Intersecting Streams - Tracy Fulford
- Nutrient release from inundated terrestrial vegetation in the Enlarged Cotter Reservoir - Sally Hatton
- Translocation of Murray hardyhead (Craterocephalus fluviatilis) from captive bred populations to aid in species recovery - Scott Huntley
- Parenting behaviour in threatened paragalaxiids of the Tasmanian central plateau. - Kevin Macfarlane
- The likelihood of floodgate opening (saline intrusion) causing conditions that promote algal blooms and fish kills in a coastal lagoon. - Gaia McNeil
- Murray River crayfish: could they be a key surrogate species for freshwater conservation? - Mae M Noble
- Mapping giant clams (Tridacnidae) in the Northern Territory, Australia using a novel remote video system - Shane Penny
- Spatial, temporal and size-based trophic analyses of albacore tuna using stable isotopes and fatty acids. - Heidi R Pethybridge
- Ecogenomic tracing of trophic connectivity in tropical coastal and freshwater fish communities. - Tom Rayner
- Integrated Ecosystem Condition Assessment - Christine Reid
- Comparative phylogeography of four aquatic species from the Murray-Darling Basin - Peter Unmack
- The gill net selectivity of four teleost species in south-western Australian estuaries - Daniel E Yeoh
- May the flow be with you – Modelling Hydroecological Risk - Douglas Green
- Saving Native Dwarf Galaxias While Controlling Invasive Mosquitofish: Taking Advantage of Local Adaptations To Variable Habitats - Rhys A Coleman
- Tracking the movements of three key recreational fish species in a south-western Australian estuary - Daniel Yeoh
- Discrimination and prediction of three tropical mackerel species based on otolith morphometrics - Lenore Litherland
- Catching the uncatchable with respondent-driven sampling: a new approach for surveying ‘hard-to-reach’ components of recreational fisheries - Shane Griffiths
Special Session - Trait variation: it exists and it matters
11:30AM - 12:45PM
Tuesday, 1st July
Waterfront Plenary Room
Chair: John Morrongiello
- Trait variation: it exists and it matters (and are our fish shrinking?) - John Morrongiello
- Modelling the consequences of differential fishing incidental mortality on susceptible behaviour types of wandering albatross - Geoffrey N Tuck
- Inter- and intra-specific variation in freshwater fish life history traits and the role of hydrology, phylogeny and spatial structuring - Mark J Kennard
- Traits and fates: life history characteristics and the decline of native freshwater fishes - Bruce Chessman
Movement/connectivity (1)
11:30AM - 12:45PM
Tuesday, 1st July
Meeting Room 2
Chair: Craig Boys
- Wet season movements of barramundi and forktail catfish: the role of fish movement as a driver of food web subsidies in a tropical lowland river - David Crook
- The movement, fidelity and behaviour of non-recreational elasmobranchs associated with a Sydney Offshore Artificial Reef (OAR) - Krystle Keller
- Mass-marking fish larvae via maternal transmission of enriched stable isotopes - Danswell Starrs
- Movement pattern and habitat use of giant trevally Caranx ignobilis in offshore reef habitats - Elodie J.I. Ledee
- Connectivity, phylogeography and behaviour of a desert-dwelling fish: does habitat matter? - Krystina D Mossop
Food Webs
11:30AM - 12:45PM
Tuesday, 1st July
Meeting Room 3
Chair: Simon Townsend
- Diet change in Macquarie perch and rainbow trout in a newly filling reservoir - Sally Hatton
- The trophic relationships of the platypus along an urban gradient - Melissa Klamt
- Using stable isotopes to identify important food sources of common fish associated with native and exotic riparian vegetation - Agnes D Lautenschlager
- The Ecology of the Desert Goby: Community level interactions and individual level variability - Nicholas P Moran
- Freshwater inflows to estuaries: do organic carbon subsidies support zooplankton production - James N Hitchcock
Fisheries Management and Assessment (2)
11:30AM - 12:45PM
Tuesday, 1st July
Meeting Room 4
Chair: Mark Grubert
- Finding a balance between gear and effort based management strategies to promote stock recovery in South Australia’s Garfish Fishery - Mike A Steer
- Southern garfish (Hyporhamphus melanochir) on the west coast of WA : living fast and dying young. - Kimberley Smith
- Combining indices of abundance from multiple surveys provides recruitment estimates for a widely distributed species in the NE Atlantic; Blue whiting - James P Keating
- An experimental analysis of assignment problems and economic rent dissipation in quota managed fisheries - Timothy J Emery
Lunch
12:45PM - 1:45PM
Tuesday, 1st July
Ground Floor Foyer
Special Session - Science Communication in the public sphere (1)
1:45PM - 3:15PM
Tuesday, 1st July
Waterfront Plenary Room
Chair: Krystina Mossop
- An Australian science communication case study based on the endangered fish red-finned blue-eye, Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis. - Adam Kerezsy
- Engaging marine communities in climate science using their own data, and the learning curve of social media tools - Dianne Bray
- Hunting porcupines: using citizen scientists to collect data on rare stingrays to support research and conservation efforts - Andrew Chin
- iSPY Fish , You SPY Fish, We all SPY Fish - Jo Wood
- Enhancing conservation of Australian freshwater ecosystems: identification of freshwater flagship fishes and relevant target audiences - Brendan C Ebner
- Natural champions for fish habitat – building capacity in Australia’s recreational fishing community through the Fish Habitat Network - Liz Baker
Movement/connectivity (2)
1:45PM - 3:15PM
Tuesday, 1st July
Meeting Room 2
Chair: Danswell Starrs
- Depth and space use of coral trout (Plectropomus leopardus) using passive acoustic tracking - Jordan K Matley
- The importance of natural flow to the recruitment success of an amphidromous shrimp in tropical Northern Australia - Peter Novak
- Divergent thermal performance thresholds in wild, co-habiting stingrays (Dasyatis fluviorum and Trygonoptera testacea) - Teagan A Marzullo
- A mobile predator? Variable space and depth use patterns of an exploited coral reef fish - Leanne M Currey
- Diadromous behaviours of three species of forktail catfish in the Daly River, Northern Territory - Sally C Oughton
- Hydrological connectivity between wetlands and rivers and its implication for fish biota: a case study for the Flinders catchment in north Queensland - Fazlul Karim
Invertebrate Ecology
1:45PM - 3:15PM
Tuesday, 1st July
Meeting Room 3
Chair: Erica Garcia
- Landscape-scale patterns of the diversity and distribution of Australian arid zone aquatic invertebrate communities - Jenny Davis
- The resilience of macroinvertebrate assemblages to multiple sediment release operations in forested, headwater streams - Patrick Bonney
- The productivity of the macroinvertebrate prey of the platypus in the upper Shoalhaven River, NSW - Richard Marchant
- Survival strategies of aquatic invertebrates as a response to drying in intermittent rivers - Sylvia Hay
- Cyclones, catchments and coastal streams: disturbing changes in macroinvertebrate assemblages over seven years - Judy N Davies
Alien/Invasive Species
1:45PM - 3:15PM
Tuesday, 1st July
Meeting Room 4
Chair: Zeb Tonkin
- Exploring differences in genetic diversity and population structure of two estuarine fishes from Victoria: the exotic yellowfin goby Acanthogobius flavimanus and the native blue spot goby Pseudogobius sp. - Sherrie Chambers
- Invasion of Siamese fighting fish (Osphronemidae) on the Adelaide River floodplain: the Northern Territory's first serious invasive pest fish - Michael Hammer
- Vagility and vulnerability: Dispersal of adult common carp (Cyprinus carpio, L.) around the Murray-Darling River Basin, Australia - Paul Brown
- The hard slog: Progress towards a National Carp Biocontrol Program. - Dean Gilligan
- Modelling recruitment dynamics of carp under different flow scenarios - Charles Todd
- Managing flows and carp - John Koehn
Afternoon Tea
3:15PM - 3:45PM
Tuesday, 1st July
Ground Floor Foyer
Special Session - Science Communication in the public sphere (2)
3:45PM - 5:00PM
Tuesday, 1st July
Waterfront Plenary Room
- Assessment of eco-labelling schemes for Pacific tuna fisheries - David Kirby
- Engaging with the aquaculture industry to increase support for novel biosensor technology - Sarah J Andrewartha
- Ensuring an enduring legacy: the multiple stories of the Native Fish Strategy - Fern Hames
- Science Communication and Knowledge Adoption: what is the difference and why should I bother? - Jaana Dielenberg
- Knowledge Brokers: Unique individuals or a flawed concept? - Ben Gawne
- Freshwater: Gaps in the Atlas of Living Australia - Lee Belbin
Environmental flows (1)
3:45PM - 5:00PM
Tuesday, 1st July
Meeting Room 2
Chair: Christopher Humphrey
- Life after Kakadu: 25 years of pursuing and applying knowledge on hydro-ecological dynamics in the more complex rivers of north-eastern NSW - Keith A. Bishop
- River recovery: How do macroinvertebrate assemblages change once antecedent flows are restored following years of heavily modified flows? - Harry Eason
- Larval abundance of cod (Maccullochella spp.) during targeted environmental watering in the Murrumbidgee River - Jason Thiem
- Recruitment Ecology of Maccullochella in the Upper Murrumbidgee 2011-2013 - Alan Couch
- Functional responses to environmental flows: linking benthic metabolism and dissolved organic carbon in the Snowy River - Ann-Marie Rohlfs
Ecosystem processes
3:45PM - 5:00PM
Tuesday, 1st July
Meeting Room 3
Chair: Darren Ryder
- Defining ecosystem processes for rehabilitation of Ranger uranium mine (NT) - Amy George
- Riparian zones in flat sandy systems, are they up to scratch? - Peter O'Toole
- Benthic algal resilience to frequent wet season disturbances by storm flows in low order streams in the Daly River, tropical Australia - Simon Townsend
- Can Top-Down Consumer Effects Be ‘Scaled-Up’? - Katherine S Lacksen
- Multi-scale comparison of stream metabolism within the wet/dry tropics - Erica A Garcia
- Phosphorus limits seston and periphyton production in iron-rich dryland streams? - Jordan A Iles
Freshwater Ecology (1)
3:45PM - 5:00PM
Tuesday, 1st July
Meeting Room 4
Chair: Angus Duguid
- Evaluating the additive effects of large-scale native fish stocking for enhancing recreational fishing - Taylor L Hunt
- DNA BARCODING AND ECOLOGICAL STUDIES: Finding Large Hidden Genetic Variation. - Ros St Clair
- Science or citizen science? Which will save the Oblong turtle? - Caitlin Bartholomaeus
- Fish spawning in the tropics - are low flows important ? - Cathy Doidge
- Examination of sampling processing methods for macroinvertebrate community monitoring in tropical shallow billabongs. - Lisa Chandler
- Do recolonization processes in intermittent streams have sustained effects on benthic algal density and assemblage composition? - Belinda J Robson
Buses depart for Mindil Beach
6:00PM - 6:15PM
Tuesday, 1st July
Ground Floor Foyer