Matt Barwick is a fisheries ecologist with over 15 years of experience in the study and management of aquatic natural resources throughout Australia and internationally. Matt has led successful delivery of a variety of projects developing cost effective solutions to enable clients to minimise avoidable impacts on aquatic systems. Examples include an innovative monitoring program in the Gulf of Carpentaria to ensure sustainable interactions between prawn fisher key threatened marine species. Matt has also helped deliver research in southern Laos utilising behavior of resident fish species for enhancing fish passage past barriers in the lower Mekong catchment. Matt’s knowledge of fish behavior has also been helpful in exploring technological innovations to reduce capture of non-marketable tropical marine species in commercial fisheries.