Fields of Research

Fisheries management
Natural resource management
Aquaculture and fisheries stock assessment
Marine and estuarine ecology (incl. marine ichthyology)
Fisheries sciences
Conservation and biodiversity

Research Objectives

Fisheries - wild caught
Environmental protection frameworks (incl. economic incentives)
Wild caught fin fish (excl. tuna)
Rehabilitation or conservation of marine environments
Assessment and management of benthic marine ecosystems

Career Best Publications

Research Publications

Decline and partial recovery of a trawl fishery in South-eastern Australia; Rebuilding of marine fisheries Part 2: Case studies
Deep aspirations: towards a sustainable offshore Blue Economy; Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
Developing achievable alternate futures for key challenges during the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development; Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
Ecosystem-based fisheries management requires broader performance indicators for the human dimension; Marine Policy
Fishery development and exploitation in South East Australia; Frontiers in Marine Science
Identifying historical baseline at the onset of exploitation to improve understanding of fishing impacts; Aquatic Conservation
Species-area relationships as indicators of human impacts on demersal fish communities; Diversity and Distributions

Research Projects

The importance of ecological baselines in developing ecosystem models; CSIRO-Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

Research Candidate Supervision