ANTHONY FOWLER

SARDI AQUATIC SCIENCES

Associate Professor Anthony Fowler is a Visiting Scientist at SARDI Aquatic Sciences (SA), where he had been a Research Scientist for nearly 30 years.  He is a fish population biologist and fishery scientist having focussed on the population biology, life histories, and fishery assessment for species such as King George Whiting, Southern Garfish, and Snapper.  Previously, he had worked on species from a variety of ecosystems during his post-graduate work at the University of Sydney, and post-doctoral positions at AIMS in Townsville and in Canada. Although his work has involved a diversity of techniques, it has particularly used the retrospective application of otolith methodologies. Anthony has been a member of the ASFB since the 1980s and served as the SA State Representative during the 1990s and 2000s. He was appointed to the Hall of Fame in 2021 and is the current nominee of the K. Radway Allen Award.