Students

SAIAB researchers supervise over 40 MSc and PhD students. While most of these students are registered at Rhodes University and are co-supervised by researchers who work in the Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, a number come from further afield, including other southern African countries.

To find out more about supervision offered by SAIAB contact our Chief Scientist, Professor Alan Whitfield.

Stuarte Barrow

In February 2012 the Rondegat River, in the Cedarberg, was treated with the piscicide rotenone in order to rehabilitate the river through the eradication of alien fish.

Terrence Bellingan

Alien fish species are believed to pose a serious threat not only to aquatic insects, of which South Africa has a wealth of rare and endemic species, but also to native fish populations.

Brendon Bredge

Resource utilisation of fresh water fish within South Africa has started to receive an increased amount of attention.

Amber Robyn Childs

The dusky kob (Argyrosomus japonicus) is an important estuarine-dependent fishery species.

Kelly Ortego Cisneros

This study will examine the spatio-temporal features of zooplankton and zoobenthic communities in two estuarine ecosystems in KwaZulu-Natal, namely the temporarily open/closed Mpenjati and permanently open Mlalazi.

Christine Coppinger

Epinephelus andersoni is endemic to the south-east coast of Africa, its range extending from Quissico in Mozambique to Kynsna in South Africa.

Murray Duncan

The slinger, Chrysoblephus puniceus, a seabream of the family Sparidae, is an important commercial transboundry linefish species.

Bruce Ellender

Barbus amatolicus (Vulnerable), Barbus trevelyani (Endangered) and Pseudobarbus afer (Endangered) occur in upper catchment environments of the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa.

John Filmalter

The silky shark (Carcharhinus falciformis) is a pelagic shark species with a cosmopolitan distribution.

Enrico Gennari

The white shark Carcharodon carcharias is an apex marine predator, occurring more frequently in temperate coastal waters, such as South Africa.

Dylan Howell

Among the Black bass, largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides are a globally popular sport-fish for recreational anglers.

Devin Isemonger

Increasing sea surface temperatures in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) are expected to affect the distribution and abundance of many of its fish species based on their thermal preferences and ability to adapt to new conditions.

Roy Jones

This thesis will concentrate on the biodiversity degradation of the aquatic freshwater system of the Nseleni River system.

Pholoshi Abram Maake

The family Mormyridae comprises of 18 genera and about 200 species of freshwater fishes endemic to tropical Africa.

Fiona Mackay

This thesis will draw on macroinvertebrate data from several studies that describe patterns and gradients in space and time.

Mandla Magoro

The primary aim of this study is to evaluate the diet and impact of invasive largemouth bass on the movements and migrations of indigenous marine fishes that utilize the upper Kowie Estuary and lower river as nursery habitats.

Bruce Mann

A long-term fish monitoring and tagging project has been conducted in the St Lucia Marine Reserve north of Cape Vidal since November 2001.

Vincent Masefield

This project was designed to assess to what extent anthropogenic activities within South African river catchments affect the health status of associated estuarine ecosystems.

Sisanda Mayekiso

I am working with three wrasse species (Thalassoma hebraicum, T.

Emmanuel K. Mbaru

Due to the overexploitation and degradation of near shore coastal areas, FADs were introduced in the early 80.

Mr Craig Midgley

Climate variability affects abundance and distribution of many aquatic species due to natural changes in key climatic variables.

Tshoanelo Moloi

Notothenioidei is a suborder of perciform fish dominating the cold water of the Southern Ocean.

Moqebelo Morallana

Lutjanids (snappers) are reef and bottom-associated fish occurring in tropical and sub-tropical marine waters throughout the eastern Pacific, Indo-West Pacific, and the western and eastern Atlantic.

Thandeka Msezane

Invasive species alters the well being of indigenous fish fauna through predation and competition for resources.

Taryn Murray

Leervis (Lichia amia) is an estuary-dependent fishery species being distributed, in South Africa, from Cape Point to Cape Vidal.

Richard Peel

Lake Liambezi is a large (300 km2), highly productive ephemeral water body that supports an important fishery which rural communities rely on as a source of protein, employment and income.

Mpho Ramoejane

In Africa, Labeos are divided into six groups according to their morphology and four of these groups are present in Southern Africa.

Nosiphiwo Springbok

Goatfishes inhabit inshore reef and coral areas and are commercially important throughout their areas of distribution in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO).

Kerry-Ann Van de Walt

Currently doing a DNA barcoding internship at the South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity while doing my masters.

Steven Weerts

This thesis will comprise two main parts, the first dealing with marine/estuarine/freshwater connectivity and how the diversity in life histories of estuary-associated fishes is affected by this primary driver.

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