Gemfish project leader Andy Moore from ABARES in Canberra discussed the final survey design with members of the GABRAG (Great Australian Bight Resource Assessment Group) at a meeting on the November 31 2013 in Port Lincoln, South Australia. The fishing industry is very supportive of the research and have offered their help to collect samples. […]
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Jess and Jenny updated fisheries stock assessment modellers (George from the Queensland Government; Peter from CARM at UQ) about the spatial extent of populations of commercially harvested shark species in Queensland. Genetic information will guide the extent of the models along the Queensland coast. For example milkshark are likely to be a single population, but […]
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A new paper from PhD student Pascal Geraghty suggests that large sharks don’t move along the coasts as far as expected. Pascal’s work shows that spinner sharks (Carcharhinus brevipinna) from Australia are separate to those in southern Africa. There may also be two separate populations in tropical Australian waters. Want to know more? Click here to […]
Congratulations to Nils for submitting his University of Queensland PhD thesis titled “Integrating ecology, oceanography and genetics for spatial fisheries management”. Following very positive external reviews, Nils is currently revising his thesis for final submission. Nils will be taking up a post-doc position in Professor Peter Mumby’s Marine Spatial Ecology Lab in December 2013. His […]
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Fisheries scientists from Queensland, New South Wales and Canberra were among those attending a workshop at . The development of an updated version of the “Status of Key Australian fish stocks (SAFS)” was discussed. If funded, the report will be produced in 2014 with input from Australian states, territories and the Commonwealth. The aim of […]
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Using new Geneious software, Dean Blower shared his latest microsatellite data for the Shark Futures project. Only 500 more individuals to score, Dean! Left to right – Tom Kashiwagi, Sam Williams, Dean Blower, Jess Morgan and Lisa Pope
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For information about software updates etc, ‘like’ the Molecular Fisheries Laboratory on facebook. Click here to go to the facebook site.
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Read new publication on this topic. Article first published online: 27 AUG 2013 | DOI: 10.1111/faf.12052 Click here to access
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This project will assist fisheries businesses on the northern coast of NSW to sustainably and profitably harvest shark species. New information will be provided to determine the sustainable total allowable catch of shark. The project began in January 2012 and is set to be completed in 2014. For more information about the project, click here. […]
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The fishing season for black marlin has begun on the east Australian coast. The black marlin research project needs new tissue samples from freshly-caught fish. Read about the project here. For information about the survival of marlin that are caught and released and tissue sampling program, download the Black Marlin Bulletin for Sept 2013.