Tuesday, 19th August Australian Society for Fish Biology Conference 2025

This includes 10minutes of audience Q&A

• A community-led approach for recording traditional fishing catches through a phone- based app and monitoring program in the Torres Strait, Australia - Kenny Bedford and Natasha Stacey

• Molecular Monitoring for Sustainable Fisheries: Enhancing Traceability, Compliance, and Conservation - Madeline Green

This session will conclude with a 15 minute Q & A

• The impact and implication of Perkinsus olseni on Australian abalone fisheries - Ben Stobart
• Expansion of Pocillopora aliciae coral beds in Sydney: coral-reef fish behavioural responses - Giglia Beretta
• Longevity over-fishing and conservation of old fish - R Keller Kopf
• Impacts of floods on microplastic presence in freshwater fish - Rhiannon A Van Eck
• Efficacies of cooking and depuration for reducing current-use pesticide residues in wild-caught giant mud crabs (Scylla serrata)   - Benjamin Gray

This session will conclude with a 15 minute Q & A

• Reeling in innovation: Identifying barriers and enablers influencing the successful adoption of AI for fisheries management - Jessica Hunter
• Advancing Catch Monitoring with AI: Early Results from Australia's Sub-Antarctic Fisheries - Geoff Tuck
• Habitat use and spatial structure of juvenile Negaprion acutidens revealed by UAV surveys in Dongsha Atoll - Chia-Yun J Li
• Integrating Remotely Operated Vehicles into Elasmobranch Research: A Pilot Assessment of Methodological Performance - Martina Lonati
• From giants shoulders: what can we do with BRUVs? - Tim J Langlois

Session Chairs: Stephanie McCaffrey, Rosy Lone, Alex Habilay

• Team Takam: two-way learning in science and culture on fishes of the upper Fly River, Papua New Guinea - Micah Borok
• Yarriin: Culture, Fish and Flow - Exploring western science and Gomeroi cultural perspectives and knowledge of the Peel River, Tamworth - Stephanie McCaffrey
• Co-producing marine knowledge: Insights from an eight-year monitoring alliance in Bardi Jawi sea Country - Katherine Cure
• Totally tubular art: connecting communities, culture and informing fish actions in the Baaka - Rosy Lone
• Mapping fish assemblages and benthic habitats in Marra Sea Country: Implications for marine spatial planning in the Gulf of Carpentaria - Sofi Forsman
• "Walking Knowledge Systems Together: Two-Eyed Seeing on the Courben Nundah (Severn River)" - Katherine Cheshire

• Over-fishing social fish - Culum Brown
• Application potential of environmental enrichment in aquaculture and fisheries - Zonghang Zhang
• Behavioural Thermoregulation and Stress Responses in Recreationally Angled Swordfish - Ciara Willis
• The Catch Welfare Platform - Working Toward Improved Profitability and Sustainability by Reducing Stress and Injuries within Fisheries Catches - Sunil Kadri
• Understanding of fish welfare in small-scale mariculture: practices and perceptions in snubnose pompano Trachinotus blochii farming in Vietnam - Linh P. Pham

This session will conclude with a 15 minute Q & A

• Troubled waters in the land down under: Pervasive threats and high extinction risks demand urgent conservation actions to protect Australia’s native freshwater fishes - Nick Whiterod
• From Carbon Flow to Fisheries Management: Addressing the Future of Mesopelagic Fisheries for Tuna and Swordfish Stocks - Ciara Willis
• Microplastics in seafood: What we know, why it matters, and where we are heading - Nina Wootton
• From detection to impact - Abalone Viral Ganglioneuritis in the Southern Zone of the Abalone Fishery in South Australia - Stephen Mayfield
• NSW Tilapia Control Plan 2023: Minimising the risk of tilapia to NSW - Ian Boutell

This session will conclude with a 15 minute Q & A

• CheckEM: an open-source toolkit for standardising, cleaning, and visualising stereo-video fish survey data - Brooke Gibbons
• Beyond MaxN: AI insights into current BRUV metrics and absolute abundance estimation through distance sampling - Ben Maslen
• Ocean to lab – high-throughput genetic methods for fisheries and conservation management - Jorden Aulich
• Fishing for answers: Population genomics of Tiger Flathead (Platycephalus richardsoni) in southeast Australia - Amelia Jensen
• A possible more precise management unit delineation based on epigenomic differentiation of a long-distance-migratory marine fish Scomberomorus niphonius - Jianqing Lin

Session Chairs: Stephanie McCaffrey, Rosy Lone, Alex Habilay

This session will conclude with a 15 minute Q & A

• From the Ground Up: Rangers as Researchers - Stephina Salee
• A journey to achieve the social and economic objectives while maintaining sustainability of the Torres Strait Tropical Rock Lobster Fishery - Roy Deng
• The influence of community-based adaptive management on reef-fish assemblages in Fiji - Peter R Hughes
• Stranded Critically Endangered Largetooth Sawfish Pristis pristis provide insights into habitat and kinship - Samuel R. Amini
• Walking Together, In Both Worlds: Lessons from BMRG’s Adaptive Partnerships with Traditional Owners in Freshwater Ecosystem Management, Queensland. - Tom Espinoza

This session will conclude with a 45 minute panel discussion

• Microencapsulated lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus) essential oil as a growth-promoting and antimicrobial feed additive in saline-tolerant Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus fry - Mary Grace Sedanza
• Refining methods for quantifying the preferred temperature of fish - Maryane Gradito
• Towards safer and more practical anaesthesia methods for fish in field settings - Jasmin C Martino

This session will conclude with a 45 minute panel discussion

• Using Light to Lure or Repel: Exploring sensory traps for invasive Eastern Mosquitofish - Louise Tosetto
• In-stream barriers prevent reinvasion of a headwater stream by introduced trout and facilitate range expansion of native Galaxias olidus. - Hugh Allan
• Carp population trends in the NSW Murray-Darling Basin: what does 30 years of standardised sampling tell us? - David Crook

This session will conclude with a 30 minute panel discussion

• The influence of artificial structures on fish and fisheries - Dianne McLean
• Rapid elemental profiling for species identification of marlin - Patrick J Burke
• Far from the shallow: new insights into the ichthyofauna of Australia’s deep coral reefs - Yi-Kai Tea

Session Chairs: Stephanie McCaffrey, Rosy Lone, Alex Habilay

This session will be a panel discussion 

Fish Welfare Annual Committee Meeting

**The Poster Session has been brought forward to 4:30pm due to program changes**
A two hour dedicated session to give posters more publicity. This designated session is intended to encourage more attendees to view the posters and engage in discussions with the presenters.

Date: Tuesday 19th August
Time: 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Location: Darwin Convention Centre
Cost: Free for registered delegates

Ticket must be selected during registration.