2003 ASFB Annual Conference New Zealand - Abstracts

Biological Invasions: Consequences for Parasites, Pathogens, Emerging Diseases, and Fisheries in the Marine Environment.
Gregory M. Ruiz¹ and Fred C. Dobbs²

Risk assessment and screening of potentially invasive fishes
Cindy Kolar

Emerging possibilities for the use of pheromonal attractants in fish control.
Peter W. Sorensen

Eradication of exotic pest fish – present and future options
Ronald Thresher

The use of fine mesh monofilament mist nets to control rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus) from a small lake complex, in the Waikato region, New Zealand.
Grant Barnes¹, David Speirs¹, Keri Neilson², Rachel Kelleher³

CARPSIM: A Tool for Evaluating Management Strategies for Carp (Cyprinus Carpio L.)
P. Brown¹ and T. Walker²

Incursion response to Undaria pinnatifida in southern New Zealand
Chadderton, W.L.,¹ Stuart M.,² Cooper, S.,³ West, C.J.,³ Harrison, A.⁴

Bioeconomic modelling in the development of invasive species policy
David Choquenot¹, Simon Nicol² & John Koehn²

Origins of New Zealand goby species
Kendall D. Clements, Tony Hickey and Shane Lavery

Dumb barge teaches important lessons: the translocation and management of a cryptogenic sea squirt
Ashley D. M. Coutts

A Risk Management Framework for Marine Biosecurity in New Zealand
Camilla Cox

Invasions of temperate Australian waters by the tropical seaweed Caulerpa taxifolia.
Dr Bob Creese and Mr Bill Talbot

The Spread of Coarse Fish in New Zealand
Neil Deans

Diet, vertical distribution and movements of brown bullhead catfish (Ameiurus nebulosus) in southern Lake Taupo, New Zealand
Michel Dedual

Eradicating the European Carp from Tasmania
Diggle, John¹, Tim Farrell¹, Paul Donkers¹, Rodney Walker¹, Jemery Day² and Nicholas Bax²

Ballast water, Sea Chests and Foreign Species: recent research at the Cawthron Institute
Tim Dodgshun, Doug Mountfort & Ashley Coutts

Invasive Gobies In Northern New Zealand Estuaries
Malcolm P. Francis¹, Cameron Walsh², Mark A. Morrison² and Crispin Middleton²

Baseline evaluation and monitoring of marine invasions in Australia and New Zealand
Chad Hewitt¹ and Graeme Inglis²

New Zealand Marine Biosecurity: Policies and strategies in a changing environment
Chad L. Hewitt, Jane Willing, Maria Cassidy, Camilla Cox, Liz Jones, Debra Wotton

Niche overlap between larvae of introduced and native fish in an Australian lowland river
Alison King

Priority management actions to reduce the future impacts of existing invasive freshwater fish species in Australia.
John Koehn¹ and Rachel Mackenzie²

Gambusia: Really Bad or Just Misunderstood?
Nicholas Ling

Assisted dispersal of freshwater fish species in southeastern Australia: what are the mechanisms and what can we do about it?
Mark Lintermans ^1,2

Invaders in the North – an Appraisal of Queensland’s Strategic Approach to Pest Fish Management
Rachel Mackenzie

Shoot first, and then ask questions: A look at aquarium fish imports and invasiveness in New Zealand
R M McDowall

Will Restoring Native Fish Habitat In The Murray-Darling Basin Simply Increase The Availability Of Habitat For European Carp?
Simon Nicol, Jarod Lyon and Jason Lieschke

Potential spread and impact of a little known alien fish introduced into Australia: the Oriental weatherloach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus).
Tarmo A. Raadik and Wayne Koster

Impacts of Alien salmonids on freshwater biota in Australia: Part 1 – background, review of impacts, and defining the issues.
Tarmo A. Raadik¹, Mark Lintermans², Jean Jackson^3, Michael Hammer⁴

Impacts of Alien Salmonids on freshwater biota in Australia: Part 2 - Impediments to effective management, and future directions
Tarmo A. Raadik¹, Mark Lintermans², Jean Jackson^3, Michael Hammer⁴

The rise and rise of Gambusia holbrooki in Australia – Serious threat or scapegoat for poor environmental management?
Ivor Stuart¹, Jarod Lyon¹ and Shanaugh McKay¹

The invasion of New Zealand waters by Murphy’s mackerel (Trachurus symmetricus murphyi) — another American in the southwest Pacific
Paul Taylor

Incursion response framework, New Zealand Marine Biosecurity: Policies and strategies in a changing environment
Debra Wotton

Management actions for the critically threatened native fish the lowland longjaw galaxias (Galaxias cobitinus)
Richard Allibone¹, Peter Ravenscroft², Ross Dungey³, Murray Neilson⁴, Simon Elkington⁵

Bycatch Management In Australia’s Northern Prawn Fishery
David Brewer

Likely effects on growth and mortality of brown trout (Salmo trutta L.) in the Goulburn River after Mitigation of Coldwater Discharge from Lake Eildon, Australia
Paul Brown

The Cheilodactylidae Does Not Exist In Australia Or New Zealand
C.P. Burridge¹, A.J. Smolenski²

Examining Hypotheses Of Historical Isolation And Contemporary Gene Flow Among Populations Of An Estuarine-Dwelling Sparid Spanning The Presently Inundated Bassian Land Bridge
C.P. Burridge¹, A.C. Hurt^{1, 3}, L.W. Farrington^{1, 4}, P.C. Coutin³, C.M. Austin¹

Reducing bycatch in Queensland’s trawl fishery – experimental charters using nets with square mesh codends show promising results
Matthew Campbell, Keith Chilcott, Anthony Courtney, Shane Gaddes, Peter Kyne, Darren Roy, Mark Tonks, Clive Turnbull* and Claire van der Geest*

Relationships of the Odacidae, a temperate Australasian labroid fish family (Perciformes; Teleostei)
Kendall D. Clements¹, Michael E. Alfaro^2,3, Jen Fessler³ and Mark Westneat³

Can egg strontium content be used to differentiate between sea-run and resident brown trout spawning redds?
Gerard P. Closs¹, Mohammad Reza Sangi², and Joathan Kim³

Management of lowland Murray River wetland habitats: Salinisation and acidification impacts on fish communities.
Anthony Conallin and Bernard McCarthy

Assessing the Potential of Otolith Chemistry for Determining Recruitment Sources of Golden Perch (Macquaria ambigua) in Inland Rivers
David Crook ^a, Bronwyn Gillanders ^b and Andrew Sanger ^c

Flexible life history strategies in a New Zealand diadromous galaxiid, giant kokopu (Galaxias argenteus)
Bruno O. David^1*, Lindsay Chadderton², Gerard P. Closs¹, Bernard Barry³, Andreas Markwitz³.

Diel changes in density and size structure of giant kokopu within individual stream pools: Daytime tolerance vs nightime agro.
Bruno David¹, Gerard Closs², Eric Hansen², Shannon Crow²

Biology of fish associated with moored FADs: implications for the development of a FAD-based fishery in New South Wales, Australia
Tim Dempster

Attraction of wild fish to sea-cage fish farms: implications for wild stocks
Tim Dempster¹, Pablo Sanchez-Jerez², Just T. Bayle-Sempere², Francisca Giménez-Casalduero², Carlos Valle

The Macquarie perch of Lake Dartmouth
John Douglas

Impact of angling on the trout population in a small Victorian stream.
John Douglas

Testing assumptions of migratory reconstructions using otolith chemistry
Elsdon, Travis S., and Gillanders, Bronwyn M.

Regional scale population structure for snapper in South Australia
Anthony Fowler and Karina Hall

Structural Considerations in Building a CASAL
R.I.C. Chris Francis, Brian Bull, Alistair Dunn, & David J. Gilbert

Impact of the invasive ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi on the Kilka fisheries Clupeonella engrauliformis in the Southern Caspian Sea

The population genetics of Daughterless Carp
Dr Dean Gilligan

Distribution and biology of the smalltooth sandtiger shark Odontaspis ferox (Chondrichthyes: Odontaspididae).
Ken Graham^a, Ian Fergusson^b, and Leonard Compagno^c

Risk Assessment Methods For Diverse Bycatch In The Northern Prawn Fishery.
Shane Griffiths, David Brewer and Roland Pitcher

Application of otolith microchemistry to investigate stock structure and movement patterns of snapper (Pagrus auratus) in South Australian waters.
Karina Hall^ab, Anthony Fowler^a and Bronwyn Gillanders^b

Can variation in otolith chemistry provide information on migration behaviour of snapper, Pagrus auratus, in Victorian waters?
Paul Hamer, Greg Jenkins and Patrick Coutin

Retropinna in retrospect: the taxonomy of a small Australian freshwater fish
Michael Hammer¹, Peter Unmack², Mark Adams³ and Keith Walker¹

TAC-based management of the snapper, Pagrus auratus, fishery in the inner gulfs of Shark Bay, Western Australia
G. Jackson

Results from an annual, statewide survey of the Queensland mud crab, Scylla serrata.
Eddie Jebreen¹, Sue Helmke², Chad Lunow², Clare Bullock³, Stuart Hyland² and Neil Gribble².

The influence of climate on the catch of King George whiting in Victorian bays and inlets
Greg Jenkins

Fish passage and stranding of native fish in off-channel habitats of the Murray River
Matthew Jones and Ivor Stuart

Density-dependence and population variability of inanga (Galaxias maculatus (Jenyns)) in a small New Zealand pastoral stream.
I. G. Jowett and J. Richardson

Predictive modeling and spatial mapping of freshwater fish and decapod assemblages: an integrated GIS and neural network approach
Michael K. Joy & Russell G. Death

Addition of artificial hollow refuge in an agricultural stream: Does river blackfish (Gadopsis marmoratus Richardson) utilise them?
Minal T Khan, Tariq A Khan and Michael E Wilson

Reef-induced circulations and their influences on the distribution of presettlement fishes
Michael J. Kingsford¹, Scott C. Burgess¹, and Kerry Black²

Utilisation of artificial aquatic macrophytes by small native fish and crustacean in a New South Wales lake.
Lake, Michael D,¹ Shirley, Michael J.¹ and Nolan, Andrew²

What do tag returns tell us?
Jason Lieschke¹, Charles Todd¹, Richard Barker² and Simon Nicol¹

Behavior and Attitude toward Fishery Sustainability in Zhoushan, PRC: Perspectives of Fishermen
Jiehua Lu¹, Jianxin Li², Guangzhou Wang³, Yuzhu Li⁴

The effects of a post-fire sediment “slug” on the fish fauna of the Ovens River, Victoria
Jarod Lyon and Justin O’Connor

Density dependent reproductive investment in the greenlip abalone, Haliotis laevigata.
Luke A. McAvaney

Stock discrimination and movement of narrow barred Spanish mackerel across northern Australia as indicated by parasites
B.R. Moore¹, R.C. Buckworth², H. Moss¹, R.J.G. Lester¹

Estimating the effect of a prawn trawl fishery on juvenile pink snapper, Pagrus auratus, in Shark Bay, Western Australia
Mike Moran & Mervi Kangas

Common p-Beliefs in a Multi-species Commercial Fishery
Elkana Ngwenya

An Analysis of Morphometrics of Bluefin Tuna
Elkana Ngwenya

A Time-varying Parameter Fish Migration Model
Elkana Ngwenya and Hannah Muhar

Summer and winter larval fish assemblages around oil/gas platforms in Bass Strait, south-eastern Australia – what’s the attraction?
Francisco J. Neira

Movements of golden perch, Macquaria ambigua, in the Murray River, south eastern Australia.
J. P. O’Connor, D. J. O’Mahony and J. M. O’Mahony

Physiological ecology of bull sharks Carcharhinus leucas in the Brisbane River
Richard D. Pillans^1,2 and Craig E. Franklin²

Systematic review of the widely distributed mountain galaxias (Galaxias olidus) species complex in eastern Australia: biodiversity loss before our eyes!
Tarmo A. Raadik¹ and Mark Adams²

Fisheries environmental assessments – world’s best practice
Simone Retif and Celeste Shootingstar

Is Predator Control Of Gambusia affinis In Northern New Zealand Lakes Necessary and Feasible?
D. K. Rowe. J. Smith

How low can they go? Impacts of cold water releases on larval and juvenile native Murray-Darling Basin fish species.
Tom Ryan

Spawning dynamics of carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) in the River Murray, South Australia, shown by macroscopic and histological staging of gonads
Benjamin B. Smith, Keith F. Walker

Genetic diversity, population structure, and effective population size in New Zealand snapper Pagrus auratus
Peter Smith¹, Lorenz Hauser², Greg Adcock²

Juvenile amphidromous gobies from the Hawaiian Islands employ chemical cues to locate freshwater streams and guide them up their water falls.
Peter W. Sorensen

Automated carp removal from fishways
Ivor Stuart and John McKenzie

Diel feeding and gastric evacuation of the golden galaxias (Galaxias auratus)
Stuart-Smith, R.D. and Barmuta, L.

Developing indices of abundance for inshore pelagic finfish from opportunistic aerial sightings data
Paul Taylor

Habitat Related Differences in Growth and Condition of New Zealand Koi Carp (Cyprinus carpio).
Grant Tempero, Nicholas Ling.

Long-term changes in the marine climate of south east Australia: evidence and implications for marine species
Ronald Thresher

Over a decade of quota management in the South East Fishery
Richard Tilzey

Was population decline inevitable? Modelling the impacts of cold water releases on native fish.
Charles Todd and Tom Ryan

Developing methods suitable for the study of the endangered Maugean skate (Dipturus sp L.)
Treloar, Michelle.,^1&2 Laurenson, Laurie¹ and John Stevens²

The Aussie fish invader Arenigobius bifrenatus (bridled goby): Current distribution and habitat requirements for successful establishment.
Natalie Usmar ¹ and Trevor Willis ²

Artisanal Elasmobranch Fisheries in South-Eastern Indonesia: The Target Fishery for Large Batoids
William T. White¹, Pak Dharmadi², Pak Fahmi³ & Ian C. Potter¹

Can a Participatory Approach to Fisheries Management be Effective in Practice?
Williams, K.A. & McPhee, D.P.

Willow Root Mats: Exotic Habitat for Native Fish
Michael Wilson, Minal Khan, Heath Cameron, Paul Jaskerniak, Chandramali Jayawardana

Introduced fishes in Western Australia
David Morgan, Howard Gill, Mark Maddern and Stephen Beatty

Use of ramps for fish passage past small barriers.
Cindy Baker and Jacques Boubée

Reproductive Cycle of Golden Galaxias (Galaxias auratus)
Scott Hardie

Spatial variation in increment otolith formation can affect precision of age estimation – example from the NSW sea mullet (Mugil cephalus) fishery.
Kimberley A. Smith *

Murray Barrage Fish Passage Assessment
Qifeng Ye and Jason Higham

Fisheries environmental assessments – world’s best practice
Simone Retif and Celeste Shootingstar