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Researcher: Forbes, LK (Mrs Luisa Forbes)

Fields of Research

Fisheries management
Aquaculture and fisheries stock assessment
Aquaculture

Research Objectives

Wild caught edible molluscs
Fisheries - aquaculture
Fisheries - wild caught

Career Best Publications

Research Publications

Looking for a Haliotis rubra shell morphometric signature: contrasting geographic and age contributions to variation in shell morphometry; 8th International Abalone Symposium
The effect of predator/prey density and water dynamics on feed intake and growth in spiny lobster larvae (Jasus edwardsii); Aquaculture

Research Projects

Abalone fleet behaviour - Does spatial structure of fishing follow stable patterns or do management changes significantly alter spatial structure of effort; Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania (NRE Tas)
Building capacity to infer shell length from abalone meat samples; Tasmanian Abalone Council Ltd (TACL)
Development of a field sampling tool for improving in situ length-based data capture methods for abalone fishery surveys; Tasmanian Abalone Council Ltd (TACL)
Obtaining fine-scale effort and catch data for assessing the Centrostephanus rodgersii fishery.; Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania (NRE Tas)

Research Candidate Supervision