Kate Fraser 2024 Australian Marine Sciences Association Annual Meeting combined with NZMSS

Kate Fraser

As a fisheries scientist at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Dr Kate Fraser's research focuses on the ongoing health and sustainability of Tasmania’s wild commercial fisheries, in particular the multi-species scalefish and cephalopod fisheries. In 2021, Kate was awarded a PhD from the University of Tasmania through the IMAS Centre for Ecology and Biodiversity. Kate's PhD research examined the ecological drivers of small mobile invertebrate communities on shallow reefs across the entire eastern seaboard of Australia. Kate moved to her current role within the IMAS Centre for Fisheries and Aquaculture immediately following her PhD. Prior to coming to the University of Tasmania, Kate worked as a research assistant and diver from 2012 to 2016 on numerous reef ecology projects for the University of Queensland, the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Murdoch University, and the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation. Kate began her academic career as a tutor in fisheries science at the University of Queensland, where she was awarded a first class honours degree in marine biology and ecology in 2011.