Matt Broadhurst

Biography

Matt Broadhurst’s research focuses on developing technologies that reduce unaccounted fishing mortality and improve fisheries management. His work includes studying fish and marine megafauna behavior during capture, designing gear modifications to minimize environmental impact, and assessing post-capture mortality and ecosystem effects to inform policy and management changes.

Matt's work contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals

Research

Current research projects include;

• Improving and promoting fish-trawl selectivity in the southern and eastern shark and scale fish fishery and Great Australian Bight trawl sector
• Refining and promoting technologies to reduce bycatch and habitat impacts while increasing fuel efficiencies throughout NSW prawn-trawl fisheries
• Population biology of octopus species in NSW: research to support a developmental octopus trap fishery
• Building knowledge and capacity to increase resilience to climate change
• Estimating the biomass of fish stocks using novel genetic techniques
• Shark management strategy: shark repellent proof of concept.