Dr Ron West has been carrying out research activities associated with fish and fish habitats for over 20 years and has published widely in the field. As well as being interested in fish biology and ecology, he has worked as a fisheries scientists for government and is currently working on threatened species management and policy.
Fish sampling, Macquarie rivulet, NSW, Australia.
Some of the main publications related to fisheries are listed below.
West, R. J., and R. J. King. 1996. Marine, brackish, and freshwater fish communities in the vegetated and bare shallows of an Australian coastal river. Estuaries 19:31-41.
Griffiths, S. P., and R. J. West. 1999. Preliminary assessment of shallow water fish in three small intermittently open estuaries in southeastern Australia. Fisheries Management & Ecology 6:311-321.
West, R. J., and M. V. Jones. 2001. Shallow Water Fish Communities of New South Wales South Coast Estuaries. FRDC Project 97/204, Ocean and Coastal Research Centre, University of Wollongong.
Rotherham, D., and R. J. West. 2002. Do different seagrass species support distinct fish communities in south-eastern Australia? Fisheries Management and Ecology 9:235-248.
Rotherham, D., and R. J. West. 2003. Comparison of methods for sampling populations of ghost shrimp, Trypaea australiensis (Decapoda: Thalassinidea: Callianassidae). Fisheries Research 60:585-591.
Griffiths, S. P., R. J. West, and A. R. Davis. 2003. Effects of intertidal elevation on the rockpool ichthyofaunas of temperate Australia. Environmental Biology of Fishes 68:197-204.
Griffiths, S. P., R. J. West, A. R. Davis, and K. G. Russell. 2004. Fish recolonization in temperate Australian rockpools: a quantitative experimental approach. Fishery Bulletin 102:634-647.
Jones, M. V., and R. J. West. 2005. Spatial and temporal variability of seagrass fishes in intermittently closed and open coastal lakes in southeastern Australia. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 64:277-288.
