Dr Ron West has worked on many aspects of fisheries management, including fisheries statistics, fish population modelling and estimating recreational fisheries. He reviewed the recent EIS process carried out by NSW Fisheries and is involved in many joint projects with fisheries management authorities.
Current joint projects with NSW Department of primary Industries include research on garfishes, bait fisheries, octopus and squid fisheries and ocean leatherjackets.
Sampling fish eggs.
Chen, Y., G. W. Liggins, and R. J. West. 1998. A yield-per-recruit model for sequential fisheries and its application in evaluating the management strategy of changing incidental inshore fishing mortality. Aquatic Sciences 60:130-144.
West, R. J. 2002. Comparison of fish and shrimp trawls for sampling deep-water estuarine fish in a large coastal river in eastern Australia. Fisheries Research 54:409-417.
West, R. J., and T. R. Walford. 2000. Estuarine fishes in two large eastern Australian coastal rivers - does prawn trawling influence fish community structure? Fisheries Management and Ecology 7:523-536.
West, R. J., and G. N. G. Gordon. 1994. Commercial and recreational harvest of fish from two Australian coastal rivers. Australian Journal of Marine & Freshwater Research 45:1259-1279.
Dr Ron West has been working on the south-eastern Australian estuaries for the past 25 years, including work on many of the anthropogenic impacts on estuaries. PhD and Masters students have worked on issues related to eutrophication of the local estuarine systems.
Phytoplankton sampling, Lake Illawarra.
Howley, C., R. J. Morrison, and R. J. West. 2004. Accumulation of metals by the seagrass Zostera capricorni in Lake Illawarra. Wetlands (Australia) 21:139-152.
Qu, W. C., R. J. Morrison, and R. J. West. 2003. Inorganic nutrient and oxygen fluxes across the sediment-water interface in the inshore macrophyte areas of a shallow estuary (Lake Illawarra, Australia). Hydrobiologia 492:119-127.
Qu, W. C., R. J. Morrison, and R. J. West. 2004a. Nitrogen cycling processes in Lake Illawarra, an intermittently closed/open estuary in south-east Australia. Wetlands (Australia) 21:276-292.
Qu, W. C., R. J. Morrison, R. J. West, and C. W. Su. 2005. Diagenetic stoichiometry and benthic nutrient fluxes at the sediment-water interface of Lake Illawarra, Australia. Hydrobiologia 537:249-264.
Qu, W. C., C. W. Su, R. J. West, and R. J. Morrison. 2004b. Photosynthetic characteristics of benthic microalgae and seagrass in Lake Illawarra, Australia. Hydrobiologia 515:147-159.
Roy, P. S., R. J. Williams, A. R. Jones, I. Yassini, P. J. Gibbs, B. Coates, R. J. West, P. R. Scanes, J. P. Hudson, and S. Nichol. 2001. Structure and function of south-east Australian estuaries [Review]. Estuarine Coastal & Shelf Science 53:351-384.
