Fisheries Research Articles
Submissions from 2009
Effect of stocking density on the growth, survival, and behavior of Postpuerulus Western Rock Lobster, Panulirus cygnus (George) (Decapoda: Palinuridae), Kane Moyle, Danielle J. Johnston, Brenton Knott, Roy Melville-Smith, and Di Walker
Effect of Stocking Density on the Growth, Survival, and Behavior of Postpuerulus Western Rock Lobster, Panulirus cygnus (George) (Decapoda: Palinuridae), Kane Moyle, Danielle Johnston, Brenton Knott, Roy Melville-Smith, and Di Walker
First record of Randall's snapper Randallichthys filamentosus (Perciformes: Lujanidae) from the eastern Indian Ocean (north-western Australia), Stephen J. Newman
Spatial subdivision among assemblages of Spanish mackerel, Scomberomorus commerson (Pisces: Scombridae) across northern Australia: Implications for fisheries management, Stephen J. Newman, Rik C. Buckworth, Michael C. Mackie, Paul D. Lewis, Ian W. Wright, Peta C. Williamson, Trevor P. Bastow, and Jennifer R. Ovenden
Spatial subdivision among assemblages of Spanish mackerel, Scomberomorus commerson (Pisces: Scombridae) across northern Australia: implications for fisheries management, Stephen J. Newman, Rik C. Buckworth, Michael C. Mackie, Paul Lewis, Ian W. Wright, Peta C. Williamson, Trevor P. Bastow, and Jennifer R. Ovenden
Factors affecting mark quality of alizarin complexone-stained otoliths in juvenile black bream Acanthopagrus butcheri and a prescription for dosage, Gavin J. Partridge, G I. Jenkins, R G. Doupe, Simon De Lestang, B M. Ginbey, and D French
The inshore fish faunas over soft substrates and reefs on the tropical west coast of Australia differ and change with latitude and bioregion, M. J. Travers, I. C. Potter, K. R. Clarke, S. J. Newman, and J. B. Hutchins
A comparison of the population genetics of Lethrinus miniatus and Lutjanus sebae from the east and west coasts of Australia: Evidence for panmixia and isolation, Lynne van Herwerden, William J. Aspden, Stephen J. Newman, Graham G. Peggs, Leica Briskey, and William Sinclair
Complex patterns of population structure and recruitment of Plectropomus leopardus (Pisces: Epinephelidae) in the Indo-West Pacific: implications for fisheries management, Lynne van Herwerden, J. Howard Choat, Stephen J. Newman, Matthieu Leray, and Grethe Hillersøy
Submissions from 2008
Growth rates and survival of western rock lobster (Panulirus cygnus) at two temperatures (ambient and 23 °C) and two feeding frequencies, Danielle J. Johnston, Roy Melville-Smith, Blair Hendricks, and Bruce Phillips
Spawning, larval abundance and growth rate of Sardinops sagax off southwestern Australia: influence of an anomalous eastern boundary current, B A. Muhling, Lachlan E. Beckley, Daniel J. Gaughan, C M. Jones, A G. Miskiewicz, and Sybrand Alexander Hesp
Population growth and mass mortality of an estuarine fish, Acanthopagrus butcheri, unlawfully introduced into an inland lake, Kimberley Smith, Jeffrey V. Norriss, and Joshua Brown
Age estimation and reproductive status of an exceptionally large blue-eye trevalla (Hyperoglyphe antarctica, Centrolophidae) captured off the south coast of Western Australia, Corey Wakefield and Stephen J. Newman
Submissions from 2007
Potential mechanisms of influence of the Leeuwin Current eddy system on teleost recruitment to the Western Australian continental shelf, Daniel J. Gaughan
Survival and growth of western rock lobster Panulirus cygnus (George) fed formulated diets with and without fresh mussel supplement, Danielle J. Johnston, Roy Melville-Smith, and Blair Hendricks
Post-settlement energy reserves in Panulirus cygnus: experimental effects of starvation on survival and nutritional condition, A J. Limbourn, R C. Babcock, Danielle J. Johnston, P D. Nichols, and B Knott
Changes in egg production of the western rock lobster (Panulirus cygnus) associated with appendage damage, Roy Melville-Smith and Simon de Lestang
Neither maternal size nor site of spawning influences larval competency in Western Rock Lobster Panulirus Cygnus George, Roy Melville-Smith, Simon de Lestang, Brenton Chatfield, Matthew M. Nelson, and Peter D. Nichols
Comparing management of recreational Pagrus fisheries in Shark Bay (Australia) and Sagami Bay (Japan): Conventional catch controls versus stock enhancement, Ronald W D Mitchell, Osamu Baba, Gary Jackson, and Tatsuya Isshiki
A substantial recruitment year for the western yellowfin bream (Acanthopagrus latus, Sparidae) sustains years of high catch rates in the inner gulfs of Shark Bay, Western Australia, Jeffrey V. Norriss and Gary Jackson
The Leeuwin Current and its eddies: An introductory overview, Anya M. Waite, P A. Thompson, S Pesant, Ming Feng, Lachlan E. Beckley, C M. Domingues, Daniel J. Gaughan, C E. Hanson, C M. Holl, T Koslow, Michael Meuleners, J P. Montoya, T Moore, Barbara A. Muhling, Harriet Paterson, S Rennie, J Strzelecki, and L Twomey
Submissions from 2006
Catch prediction for the blue swimmer crab (Portunus pelagicus) in Cockburn Sound, Western Australia, Lynda Bellchambers Dr, Simon de Lestang, Kimberly Dale Smith, and Adrian W. Thomson
Interannual variation in the moult cycle and size at double breeding of mature female western rock lobster (Panulirus cygnus), Simon de Lestang and Roy Melville-Smith
Stocking density and shelter type for the optimal growth and survival of western rock lobster Panulirus cygnus (George), Danielle Johnston, Roy Melville-Smith, Blair Hendriks, Greg B. Maguire, and Bruce F. Phillips
Biological characteristics and mortality of western butterfish (Pentapodus vitta), an abundant bycatch species of prawn trawling and recreational fishing in a large subtropical embayment, Jason C. Mant, Michael J. Moran, Stephen J. Newman, Sybrand Alexander Hesp, Norman G. Hall, and Ian C. Potter
Validated age and growth of the sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus (Nardo 1827) in the waters off Western Australia, Rory McAuley, Colin Simpfendorfer, Glenn A. Hyndes, Rick R. Allison, Justin A. Chidlow, Stephen J. Newman, and Rod C.J. Lenanton
Spatial and temporal variation in the size at maturity of the western rock lobster Panulirus cygnus George, Roy Melville-Smith and Simon de Lestang
Vital demographic statistics and management of the baldchin groper (Choerodon rubescens) from the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Kim Nardi, Stephen J. Newman, Michael J. Moran, and Geoffrey P. Jones
Influence of latitude, water depth, day v. night and wet v. dry periods on the species composition of reef fish communities in tropical Western Australia, M. J. Travers, S. J. Newman, and I. C. Potter
Contrasting patterns of genetic structure in two species of the coral trout Plectropomus (Serranidae) from east and west Australia: Introgressive hybridisation or ancestral polymorphisms, L. van Herwerden, J. H. Choat, C. L. Dudgeon, G. Carlos, Stephen J. Newman, A. Fisch, and M. Van Oppen
Catchability and selectivity of juvenile snapper (Pagrus auratus, Sparidae) and western butterfish (Pentapodus vitta, Nemipteridae) from prawn trawling in a large marine embayment in Western Australia, Corey B. Wakefield, Michael J. Moran, Nadia E. Tapp, and Gary Jackson
Submissions from 2005
Selectivity of different gear types for sampling the blue swimmer crab, Portunus pelagicus L., Lynda Bellchambers Dr and Simon de Lestang
Submissions from 2004
A sudden collapse in distribution of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) in southwestern Australia enables an objective re-assessment of biomass estimates, Daniel J. Gaughan, Timothy I. Leary, Ronald W. Mitchell, and Ian W. Wright
Variability in spawning frequency and reproductive development of the narrow-barred Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus commerson) along the west coast of Australia, Michael C. Mackie, Paul D. Lewis, Daniel J. Gaughan, and Stephen J. Newman
Stock enhancement as a fisheries management tool, Brett W. Molony, Rod Lenanton, Gary Jackson, and Jeffrey V. Norriss
Submissions from 2003
Hydrodynamic modelling of snapper Pagrus auratus egg and larval dispersal in Shark Bay, Western Australia: reproductive isolation at a fine spatial scale, Elizabeth L. Nahas, Gary Jackson, Charitha B. Pattiaratchi, and Gregory N. Ivey
Submissions from 2002
Elevated salinity and isotopic composition of fish otolith carbonate: stock delineation of pink snapper, Pagrus auratus, in Shark Bay, Western Australia, T P. Bastow, Gary Jackson, and J S. Edmonds
Effects of the Leeuwin Current on the distribution of carnivorous Macrozooplankton in the shelf waters off southern Western Australia, Daniel J. Gaughan and Warrick (Rick) J. Fletcher
Functionally distinct adult assemblages within a single breeding stock of the sardine, Sardinops sagax: management units within a management unit, Daniel J. Gaughan, Warrick (Rick) J. Fletcher, and John P. McKinlay
Does the mortality of released Sardinops sagax increase if rolled over the headline of a purse seine net?, Ronald W. Mitchell, Stuart J. Blight, Daniel J. Gaughan, and Ian W. Wright
Using an age-structured model to simulate the recovery of the Australian pilchard (Sardinops sagax) population following epidemic mass mortality, Alexander G. Murray and Daniel J. Gaughan
Age validation, growth, mortality, and additional population parameters of the goldband snapper (Pristipomoides multidens) off the Kimberley coast of northwestern Australia, Stephen J. Newman and Iain J. Dunk
Submissions from 2001
Disease-translocation across geographic boundaries must be recognized as a risk even in the absence of disease identification: the case with Australian Sardinops, Daniel J. Gaughan
Growth rate of larval Sardinops sagax from ecosystems with different levels of productivity, Daniel J. Gaughan, Warwick J. Fletcher, and K V. White
The links between functionally distinct adult assemblages of Sardinops sagax : larval advection across management boundaries, Daniel J. Gaughan, K V. White, and Warrick (Rick) J. Fletcher
Parameter estimation with egg production surveys to estimate snapper, Pagrus auratus, biomass in Shark Bay, Western Australia, Gary Jackson and Yuk W. Cheng
Growth, Age Validation, Mortality, and other Population Characteristics of the Red Emperor Snapper, Lutjanus sebae (Cuvier, 1828), off the Kimberley Coast of North-Western Australia, S. J. Newman and I. J. Dunk
Spatial and temporal variation in assemblages of Lutjanidae, Lethrinidae and associated fish species among mid-continental shelf reefs in the central Great Barrier Reef, Stephen J. Newman and David McB. Williams
Spatial genetic subdivision between northern Australian and southeast Asian populations of Pristipomoides multidens: a tropical marine reef fish species, Jennifer R. Ovenden, Julie Lloyd, Stephen J. Newman, Clive P. Keenan, and Leigh S. Slater
Submissions from 2000
Impact of mortality, possibly due to herpesvirus, on pilchard Sardinops sagax stocks along the south coast of Western Australia in 1998-99, Daniel J. Gaughan, R W. Mitchell, and Stuart J. Blight
Age, growth and mortality of the stripey, Lutjanus carponotatus (Richardson) and the brown-stripe snapper, L. vitta (Quoy and Gaimard) from the central Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Stephen J. Newman, Mike Cappo, and David McB. Williams
Stock structure of the goldband snapper Pristipomoides multidens (Pisces: Lutjanidae) from the waters of northern and western Australia by stable isotope ratio analysis of sagittal otolith carbonate, Stephen J. Newman, Richard A. Steckis, John S. Edmonds, and Julie Lloyd
Submissions from 1999
A new approach to validation of periodicity and timing of opaque zone formation in the otoliths of eleven species of Lutjanus from the central Great Barrier Reef*, Mike Cappo, Peter Eden, Stephen J. Newman, and Simon Robertson
Spatial and temporal variation in nearshore fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages from a temperate Australian estuary over a decade, Gary Jackson and Gary K. Jones
Age, Growth and Mortality of Gymnocranius audleyi (Pisces: Lethrinidae), T. Laursen, G. R. Russ, S. J. Newman, and J. B. Higgs
Age, growth, mortality rates and corresponding yield estimates using otoliths of the tropical red snappers, Lutjanus erythropterus, L. malabaricus and L. sebae, from the central Great Barrier Reef ☆, Stephen J. Newman, Mike Cappo, and David McB. Williams
Submissions from 1997
Patterns of zonation of assemblages of the Lutjanidae, Lethrinidae and Serranidae (Epinephelinae) within and among mid-shelf and outer-shelf reefs in the central Great Barrier Reef, Stephen J. Newman, David McB. Williams, and Garry R. Russ
Submissions from 1996
Spatial and seasonal distribution of eggs and larvae of sandy sprat, Hyperlophus vittatus (Clupeidae), off south-western Australia, Daniel J. Gaughan, R J. Tregonning, and Warrick (Rick) J. Fletcher
Variation in reef associated assemblages of the Lutjanidae and Lethrinidae at different distances offshore in the central Great Barrier Reef, Stephen J. Newman and David McB. Williams
Age validation, growth and mortality rates of the tropical snappers (Pisces: Lutjanidae) Lutjanus adetii (Castelnau, 1873) and L. quinquelineatus (Bloch, 1790) from the central Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Stephen J. Newman, David McB. Williams, and Garry R. Russ
Variability in the population structure of Lutjanus adetii (Castelnau, 1873) and L. quinquelineatus (Bloch, 1790) among reefs in the central Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Stephen J. Newman, David McB. Williams, and Garry R. Russ
Description of the eggs and yolk-sac larvae of Whitebait Hyperlophus vittatus (Teleostei: Clupeidae), R J. Tregonning, Daniel J. Gaughan, and Warrick (Rick) J. Fletcher
