Conference/workshop reports

Beckley, L.E. 2003. Profile of a Rottnest recreational angler. 2nd WA State Coastal Conference, Geraldton, Australia.

Beckley, L.E. 2003. Gone fishing! Marine resource usage in the Rottnest Island Reserve, Western Australia. Australian Marine Sciences Association Conference, Brisbane, Australia

Beckley, L.E. 2004. Reconciling fisheries and conservation in estuaries. Proceedings 4th World Fisheries Conference, American Fisheries Society.

Beckley, L.E. 2005. Use of high resolution spatial data to assess recreational fishing effort displaced by marine park zoning. International Marine Protected Areas Congress, Geelong, Australia.

Beckley, L.E. and Avayzian, S.G. 2004. Oceans apart? Estuarine fisheries and conservation in south-eastern Africa and south-western Australia. Proceedings 4th World Fisheries Conference, American Fisheries Society.

Beckley, L.E. and Blackweir, D.G. 2005. Aerial survey of beach usage along the Perth metropolitan coast. 3rd WA State Coastal Conference, Busselton, Australia.

Beckley, L.E. and Fox, N.J. 2005. Diversity and conservation of Western Australian coastal fishes. 7th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference, Taipei, Taiwan.

Beckley, L.E. and Smallwood, C.B. 2004. Marine reserve or marine caravan park? Assessment of recreational boating at Rottnest Island. Australian Marine Science Association Conference, Hobart, Australia.

Beckley, L.E. and Smallwood, C.B. 2004. Questionnaire and creel surveys of shore-based recreational anglers at Rottnest Island. Australian Society for Fish Biology Conference. Adelaide, Australia.

Beckley, L.E. and Smallwood, C.B. 2005. Marine resource usage in the Rottnest Island Reserve, Western Australia and a comparison with recreational fishing in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. 12th Southern African Marine Science Symposium, Durban, South Africa.

Beckley, L.E., Fennessy, S.T. and Everett, B.I. 2005. Harbours as recreational assets: A case study of shore-based angling in a major South African port. Indian Ocean Marine Environmental Conference: Linking science, engineering and management. Perth, Australia.

Beckley, L.E., Muhling, B.A. and Waite, A.M. 2005. Ichthyoplankton assemblages and primary production in meso-scale eddies associated with the Leeuwin Current, Eastern Indian Ocean. American Fisheries Society Larval Fish Symposium, Barcelona, Spain.

Beckley, L.E., Muhling, B.A. and Waite, A.M. 2005. Meso-scale eddies: death traps or life savers in an oligotrophic Indian Ocean? 12th Southern African Marine Science Symposium, Durban, South Africa.

Beckley, L.E., Muhling, B.A. and Waite, A.M. 2005. Meso-scale Leeuwin Current eddies: oceanographic history and ichthyoplankton assemblages. 7th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference, Taipei, Taiwan

Bielawski, N., Beckley, L.E. and Chubb, C. 2003. Colonization of an artificial reef at Geraldton by western rock lobsters, Panulirus cygnus. 2nd WA State Coastal Conference, Geraldton, Australia.

Blackweir, D. and Beckley, L.E. 2003. Eye in the sky – aerial surveillance for sharks in Perth coastal waters. 2nd WA State Coastal Conference, Geraldton, Australia.

Blackweir, D.G. and Beckley, L.E. 2004. Beach usage and aerial surveillance for sharks in Perth metropolitan waters. Australian Marine Science Association Conference, Hobart, Australia.

Buller, N.B., McLetchie, H., Fenwick, D., Nicholls, P., Jones, B. and Alderman, D. 2003. Molecular Diagnostic Tests to Detect Epizootic Ulcerative Syndrome (Aphanomyces invadans) and Crayfish Plague (Aphanomyces astaci). Aquatic Animal Health Conference, Geelong, Victoria 8-10th Oct. 2003.

Cannell, B. 2000. Effects of sprat availability upon the distribution, abundance and breeding performance of little penguins. Third International Penguin Conference, Valparaiso, Chile.

Carter, R. 2005. Environmental factors influencing green turtle nesting activity at North West Cape, Western Australia. 3rd WA State Coastal Conference, Busselton, Australia

Chisholm, W. and Beckley, L.E. 2004 Tailor made? Larval distribution of tailor (Pomatomus saltatrix) off Western Australia. Australian Society for Fish Biology Conference. Adelaide, Australia.

Fairclough, D.V., Potter, I.C. and Lek, E. 2005. Fish communities of the reefs of the Jurien Bay Marine Park. Strategic Research Fund for the Marine Environment Workshop on the Jurien Bay project and ecosystem models. CSIRO, June 2005.

Fenton, J., Morgan, D. and Thorburn, D. 2004. Fish passage along the Fitzroy River. Land and Water Australia Funded R&D with an Indigenous Focus. Coordination Meeting. School of Australian Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Charles Darwin University, December 2004, Darwin.

Fox, N.J. and Beckley, L.E. 2003. Iterative selection of marine reserve locations to conserve Western Australian coastal fish diversity. 2nd WA State Coastal Conference, Geraldton, Australia.

Fox, N.J. and Beckley, L.E. 2003. Science not scenery! Selecting locations for ‘no take’ marine reserves in Western Australia. Australian Marine Sciences Association Conference, Brisbane, Australia.

Fox, N.J. and Beckley, L.E. 2004. Hotspots, biogeography, complementarity and pragmatism: Priority areas for conservation of western Australian coastal fishes. Australian Marine Science Association Conference, Hobart, Australia.

Fox, N.J. and Beckley, L.E. 2005. Marine conservation in Western Australia: Efficiency, stakeholders and the problem of the remote north. International Marine Protected Areas Congress, Geelong, Australia.

Hall, N.G. 2003. Meeting of the South East Data, Assessment, and Review (SEDAR) Committee, 25-28 February, 2003, at Raleigh, North Carolina.

Harvey, M. and Beckley, L.E. 2004. Do size and bag limits really work? A case study from the Western Australian recreational boat fishery. Australian Society for Fish Biology Conference. Adelaide, Australia.

Harvey, M.J. and Beckley, L.E. 2005. Effectiveness of regulations: A case study from the Western Australia recreational boat fishery. 3rd WA State Coastal Conference, Busselton, Australia.

Harvey, M.J., Kobryn, L.E. and Beckley, L.E. 2005. Hyperspectral remote sensing: Applications for management of the Rottnest Island Reserve. 3rd WA State Coastal Conference, Busselton, Australia.

Hesp, S.A. 2004. Biology of the Western Australian Dhufish Glaucosoma hebraicum. Workshop on Dhufish held by Recfishwest and W.A. Department of Fisheries at Murdoch University, June 2004.

Hesp, S.A. 2004. Biology of the Western Australian Dhufish Glaucosoma hebraicum. CALM Marine Conservation Branch, Fremantle, July 2004.

Hesp, S.A. 2004. Biology of the tarwhine (silver bream) Rhabdosargus sarba in Western Australia. CALM Marine Conservation Branch, Fremantle, August 2004.

Hesp, S.A. 2004. Biology of western yellowfin bream (Acanthopagrus latus) in Shark Bay. CALM Marine Conservation Branch, Fremantle, November 2004.

Kobryn, H.T., Murray, K. and Beckley, L.E. 2003. Monitoring intertidal rock platforms on Rottnest Island using a Geographical Information System. 2nd WA State Coastal Conference, Geraldton, Australia.

Kobryn, H.T. and Beckley, L.E. 2003. Use of GIS in coastal management training at Murdoch University, Western Australia. Coastal GIS 2003: an integrated approach to Australian coastal issues, Wollongong, Australia.

Kobryn, H.T., Wise, P., Beckley, L.E. and Dibden, C. 2004. Integration of remotely sensed data and bathymetric information for marine habitat classification in the Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia. 12th Australasian Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Conference. Fremantle, Australia.

Kobryn, H.T., Beckley, L.E., Wise, P. and Dibden, C. 2005. Comparison of aerial photography and Quickbird satellite imagery for marine habitat classification in the Abrolhos Island, Western Australia. 3rd WA State Coastal Conference, Busselton, Australia.

Kobryn, H.T., Wise, P., Beckley, L.E. and Dibden, C. 2005. Marine habitat classification in the Abrolhos Islands: Integration of bathymetry and remotely sensed data. Indian Ocean Marine Environmental Conference: Linking science, engineering and management. Perth, Australia.

Loneragan, N.R., Haywood, M.D., Kenyon, R.A., Ye, Y. 2005. Future directions for prawn enhancement. Australian Society of Fish Biology Conference, Darwin July 2005.

Maddern, M.G., Gill, H.S. and Morgan, D.L. 2005. More invasive than Gambusia holbrooki? The biology and potential environmental impacts of the introduced freshwater fish Phalloceros caudimaculatus (Poeciliidae) in Western Australia. Australian Society for Fish Biology, Annual Meeting, Darwin, Australia.

McLetchie, H., Buller, N., Nicholls, P., Fenwick, S., Jones, B. and Alderman, D. 2003. Rapid Diagnostic Kit for Aphanomyces invadans and Aphanomyces astaci. Combined Australian and New Zealand Society for Microbiology Conference, Auckland, New Zealand Oct 2003.

Morgan, D. 2004. Biodiversity and cultural significance of fishes in the King Edward River. Land and Water Australia Funded R&D with an Indigenous Focus. Coordination Meeting. School of Australian Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Charles Darwin University, December 2004, Darwin.

Morgan, D. Allen, M., Bedford, P. and Horstman, M. 2004. Freshwater fishes of the Fitzroy River (Kimberley) – including the Bunuba, Gooniyandi, Ngarinyin, Nyikina and Walmajarri names. Australian Society for Fish Biology, Annual Meeting, Adelaide, South Australia.

Morgan, D., Gill, H., Maddern, M. and Beatty, S. 2003. Introduced fishes in Western Australia. Australian Society for Fish Biology, Annual Meeting, Wellington, New Zealand.

Morgan, D., Thorburn, D., Bedford, P., Sefton, M., Casson, S., Croft, I., Fenton, J., Wallace-Smith, H., Johnson, M., Vigilante, T. and Mardling, A. 2005. Fish Projects in the West Kimberley - collaborative studies by Murdoch University’s Centre for Fish and Fisheries Research, the Kimberley Land Council’s Land + Sea Unit and the Kimberley Language Resource Centre. Kimberley Appropriate Economies Roundtable, 11-13 October 2005, Fitzroy Crossing.

Muhling, B. and Beckley, L.E. 2003. Ichthyoplankton assemblage structure in coastal and shelf waters off Western Australia. 2nd WA State Coastal Conference, Geraldton, Australia.

Muhling, B. and Beckley, L.E. 2004. Ichthyoplankton in two meso-scale Leeuwin Current eddies: preliminary results. Australian Marine Science Association Conference, Hobart, Australia

Muhling, B.A. and Beckley, L.E. 2005. Finding Nemo and his friends: The influence of ocean currents on larval fishes off south-western Australia. 3rd WA State Coastal Conference, Busselton, Australia.

Muhling, B., Beckley, L.E. and Koslow, A. 2004. Preliminary analysis of ichthyoplankton in coastal, shelf and offshore waters of south-western Australia. Australian Marine Science Association Conference, Hobart, Australia

Muhling, B.A., Beckley, L.E. and Koslow, A.J. 2005. Ichthyoplankton assemblages off south-western Australia and the influence of regional and local oceanography. 7th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference, Taipei, Taiwan.

Muhling, B., Beckley, L.E. and Waite, A. 2005. Meso-scale Leeuwin Current eddies: Ichthyoplankton assemblages and primary production. Indian Ocean Marine Environmental Conference: Linking science, engineering and management. Perth, Australia.

Potter, I.C. and Gill, H.S. 2000. The adaptive radiation of lampreys. Second International Sea Lamprey Symposium, Michigan, USA.

Prior, S.P. and Beckley, L.E. 2005. What do fishermen really think? A case study from the Blackwood Estuary. 3rd WA State Coastal Conference, Busselton, Australia.

Smallwood, C.B. and Beckley, L.E. 2003. Boating activity in the Rottnest Island reserve, Western Australia. Australian Marine Sciences Association Conference, Brisbane, Australia.

Smallwood, C.B., Beckley, L.E. and Sumner, N. R. 2004. Recreational angling in the Rottnest island reserve: Catch, effort and participation estimates. Australian Marine Science Association Conference, Hobart, Australia.

Stephens, F. 2000. Exophiala sp. in the Western Australian dhufish. Annual Conference of the Association of Veterinary Pathologists, Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle.

Torre, A., Morgan, D.L. and Beatty, S.J. 2005. Fish passage – What’s happening in Western Australia? 4th Australian Technical Workshop on Fishways Conference Proceedings, Kununurra, Western Australia, 2005.

Tull, M. 2005. Shark fishing in Indonesia: a brief historical overview, paper presented at the Oceans Past conference, Kolding, Denmark, 24-27 October 2005.

Tull, M. and Vieira, S. 2005. Potential impacts of management measures on artisanal fishers in Indonesian shark and ray fisheries: a case study of Cilacap. Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Working Paper 127, December 2005.

White, W. 2003. Preliminary investigation of artisanal deepsea chondrichthyan fisheries in eastern Indonesia. Conservation and Management of Deepsea Chondrichthyan Fishes. University of Otago, Portobello Marine Laboratory, South Island, New Zealand, 27-29 November 2003.

White, W.T. 2004. Artisanal Elasmobranch Fisheries in South-Eastern Indonesia: the target longline fishery for sharks in Lombok. Oral Presentation at the 7th Asian Fisheries Forum, Penang, Malaysia, 30th Nov.- 4th Dec. 2004.

White, W.T., Cavanagh, R.D., Fahmi and Dharmadi. 2005. Whale shark landings in Indonesian artisanal shark and ray fisheries. Poster presented at the International Whale Shark Conference, Perth, May 2005

White, W.T., Last, P.R., Fahmi, Dharmadi and Stevens, J.D. 2005. The elasmobranchs of eastern Indonesia: characterisation of the fauna based on surveys of fish landing sites. Oral Presentation at the 7th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference, Taiwan, May 2005.