Through the generous support of FRDC and State, Territory and Commonwealth fishery agencies, the Australian Society for Fish Biology (ASFB) has hosted a national workshop series since the early 1980's with eminent local and overseas scientists presenting keynote addresses on major themes. ...

This project reports on: 1) our detailed evaluation of current methodologies for otolith chemical analysis, and our recommended procedures when electron probe microanalysis is used for stock delineation in finfish 2) our assessment of the accuracy and precision of otolith probe microanalysis...

Of the eighteen species of Scomberomorus recognized by Collette and Russo (1979), the migratory behavior of only three species S. cavalla (king mackerel), S. maculatus (Spanish mackerel) and S. commerson (the narrow-barred Spanish mackerel) have been studied by tagging programmes. In these instances...