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Caleb Gardner

Professor of Fisheries Science

Sustainable Marine Research Collaboration

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  • Professor of Fisheries Science
    Sustainable Marine Research Collaboration
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  • Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Fisheries and Aquaculture, 9 IMAS Taroona, Off-Campus

BIO

Professor Caleb Gardner is a Fisheries Scientist and has worked in various roles at the IMAS Fisheries & Aquaculture Centre, including as director of the Centre and Director of the Sustainable Marine Research Collaboration Agreement (SMRCA). His research has been across a wide range of aquaculture and fisheries industries, mainly high value fisheries such as southern rock lobster and abalone. He has qualifications in both economics and biology, which interact in his research on commercial fisheries. His research on wild fisheries species generally have the objective of ensuring sustainable production and community benefit from Australia's fisheries. This has included the increased use of bioeconomic models in coastal fisheries for setting catches and assessing other regulations.

Biography
Caleb first studied science at Adelaide University and then worked in human pathology in the UK and Sydney. He then moved to Tasmania to study aquaculture, eventually moving onto wild fisheries research. In 2010 he completed undergraduate studies and then a masters by research in economics in response to the need to consider economic approaches in harvest strategies. He has worked in a range of positions at UTAS including as the program leader for fisheries and as Director of the 'SMRCA', which is the partnership agreement between the Tasmanian Government and UTAS for research services.

Career summary

Qualifications
Masters of Economics (Research) (2012): An economic evaluation of management strategies for the Tasmanian rock lobster fishery. University of Tasmania
PhD (Applied Science) (1997): The Larval and Reproductive Biology of the Giant Crab Pseudocarcinus gigas. University of Tasmania
BSc (1st Class Hons) (1994): Growth, condition and gametogenesis of triploid oysters in Tasmania. University of Tasmania
Grad Dip (Applied Science) (1993). University of Tasmania
BSc (1987): University of Adelaide

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  • Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies

FIELD OF RESEARCH