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PROJECT NUMBER • 1998-141
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Environmental determinants of recruitment success of King George whiting

Catches of King George whiting in Victorian bays and inlets vary greatly from year to year. This research was aimed at finding out how much of this variation was due to the environment, and whether we could use measures of environmental variables to predict catches in the future. King George whiting...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
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Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-036
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Implementation of dynamic reference points and harvest strategies to account for environmentally-driven changes in productivity in Australian fisheries

The need to adapt stock assessment methods and harvest strategies to explicitly and justifiably account for shifts in productivity has been recognised by the AFMA Resource Assessment Group for the Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery (SESSF), not least as a result of clearly evident...
ORGANISATION:
Pisces Australis Pty Ltd
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People development program: 2014 FRDC International Travel Bursary- Dr Zoe Doubleday

Project number: 2008-314.45
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $4,484.48
Organisation: University of Adelaide
Project start/end date: 2 Jun 2014 - 29 Jan 2015
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The International Otolith Symposium is only held every five years and is possibly the most important conference I could attend during my four-year post-doctoral appointment at The University of Adelaide. The Symposium will provide a platform for the exchange of information and promote the development of novel techniques and applications for otolith-based analysis in ecology and fisheries management. My research, under the direction of Prof Bronwyn Gillanders, is focussed on examining long-term changes in fish populations, associated with climatic variability and human impacts, through the use of otolith microchemistry and sclerochronology (growth pattern analysis). I also supervise multiple Honours and PhD student projects related to fish otoliths and other calcified tissues. The Symposium is thus highly relevant to my key field of research.

The Mediterranean Fisheries Science Laboratory in Sète, France, is Europe’s leading research group in ecosystem focussed fisheries management. The group develops innovative tools to assess global change impacts to marine ecosystems, with a particular emphasis on the resistance and resilience of exploited populations. This complements the research strengths of Prof Gillanders research group at The University of Adelaide. Visiting the laboratories in Sète will thus provide a further opportunity to foster international collaboration and exchange research skills and expertise in fish and fisheries research.

Funding opportunities for travel are limited for early career researchers and the International Travel Bursary will provide necessary financial support to undertake the proposed objectives. I will maximise the funding and benefit of the bursary by combining conference attendance with a laboratory visit.

Objectives

1. Attend the 5th International Otolith Symposium and present a research paper entitled “Broad and local scale drivers of growth of an estuarine fish species and implications for climate change."
2. Visit IFREMER’s (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea) Mediterranean Fisheries Science Laboratories and present an overview of my research at the Laboratories’ weekly seminar series.
3. Develop collaborative linkages with a range of researchers at the Symposium and IFREMER.
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