Research Group Leader Crustaceans

Research Areas:

• Crustacean Fisheries- Giant Crab and Rock Lobster  Read More

Full Publication List

Current and Supervised Project/s:

• Rock lobster catch sampling
• Rock lobster reserve sampling
• Understanding shelf break habitat for management of fisheries with spatial overlap
• Development of the tools for long-term management of the giant crab resource: data collection methodology, stock assessment and harvest strategy evaluation.
• Rock Lobster Stock Assessment
• Rock lobster pre-recruit monitoring
• Increasing yield in the lobster fishery by tailoring management to spatial differences in the biology of lobsters and movement of the fleet.
• Translocation of deep-water southern rock lobsters to improve its marketability.
• Can production in the southern rock lobster fishery be improved? Linking juvenile growth, survival and density dependence to sustainable yield.
• Giant crab stock assessment
• Arani Chandrapavan - Translocation of the southern rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) to improve yield and marketability.
• DCC rock lobster climate change project:
• Rebuilding Ecosystem Resilience: Minimise Formation of
• Tim Shepherd - Development of methods to estimate survival of Astacopsis sp.. (Honours)
• Rebuilding Ecosystem Resilience