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SAFER Lab website

Keywords

Recreational Fisheries, Environmental Behaviour, Fisheries Ecology

Countries

South Africa

Biography

Research interests: recreational fisheries, conservation psychology, fisheries biology, larval fish ecology

Current research: a global review of conservation ethic, morality and environmental behaviour at recreational angling lodges, with an assessment of the feasibility of using angling guides as influential bodies to promote pro-environmental behaviour.

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Employment (3)

Southern African Fisheries Ecology Research Lab: Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, ZA

2023-02-01 to present | Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Matthew William Farthing

Rhodes University: Grahamstown, ZA

2023-01-01 to present | Research Associate (Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science)
Employment
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Matthew William Farthing

Nelson Mandela University: Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, ZA

2022-02-15 to 2023-02-28 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Institute for Coastal and Marine Research)
Employment
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Matthew William Farthing

Education and qualifications (4)

Rhodes University: Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, ZA

2017-07-15 to 2022-02-15 | PhD (Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science)
Education
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Matthew William Farthing

Rhodes University: Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, ZA

2014-01-01 to 2016-12-15 | MSc (Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science)
Education
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Matthew William Farthing

Rhodes University: Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, ZA

2013-01-10 to 2013-12-15 | BSc Hons (Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science)
Education
Source: Self-asserted source
Matthew William Farthing

Rhodes University: Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, ZA

2010-01-31 to 2012-12-15 | BSc (Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science)
Education
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Matthew William Farthing

Works (12)

Exploratory characterisation of recreational fishing for skipjack tuna Katsuwonus pelamis and eastern little tuna Euthynnus affinis in South Africa

African Journal of Marine Science
2025-03-24 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2989/1814232X.2024.2442971
Contributors: S Viana; MW Farthing; C Bova; O Marcone; WHH Sauer
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The role of angling-guides in promoting pro-environmental catch-and-release attitudes and behaviours in the recreational angling community

2022-04-08 | Dissertation or Thesis
DOI: 10.21504/10962/294585
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Do contemporary age-growth models overlook life-history complexities in protandrous fishes? A case study on the large protandrous polynemid, the giant African threadfin Polydactylus quadrifilis

Fisheries Research
2021-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2020.105770
Part of ISSN: 0165-7836
Source: Self-asserted source
Matthew William Farthing

Physiological stress response and recovery of an important estuarine fishery species, dusky kob Argyrosomus japonicus, after a simulated catch-and-release event

African Journal of Marine Science
2020-10-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2989/1814232X.2020.1801505
Contributors: NK Arkert; A-R Childs; MI Duncan; M Farthing; WM Potts
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Quantifying the impacts of abrasion and bacterial transfer when fish are exposed to sand during a catch-and-release event

African Journal of Marine Science
2020-10-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2989/1814232X.2020.1792982
Contributors: RM Foster; A-R Childs; M Brooks; MW Farthing; EC Butler; WM Potts
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Genetic analysis provides insights into species distribution and population structure in East Atlantic horse mackerel ( Trachurus trachurus and T. capensis )

Journal of Fish Biology
2020-02-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/jfb.14276
Part of ISSN: 0022-1112
Part of ISSN: 1095-8649
Source: Self-asserted source
Matthew William Farthing

Sectioned or whole otoliths? A global review of hard structure preparation techniques used in ageing sparid fishes

Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
2019-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11160-019-09571-1
Part of ISSN: 0960-3166
Part of ISSN: 1573-5184
Source: Self-asserted source
Matthew William Farthing

Limitations of the random response technique and a call to implement the ballot box method for estimating recreational angler compliance using surveys

Fisheries Research
2018-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2018.06.017
Part of ISSN: 0165-7836
Source: Self-asserted source
Matthew William Farthing

Working with, not against recreational anglers: Evaluating a pro-environmental behavioural strategy for improving catch-and-release behaviour

Fisheries Research
2018-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2018.04.016
Part of ISSN: 0165-7836
Source: Self-asserted source
Matthew William Farthing

The age and growth of hottentot seabream Pachymetopon blochii before and after the South African linefish state of emergency in 2000

African Journal of Marine Science
2018-04-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2989/1814232x.2018.1475302
Part of ISSN: 1814-232X
Part of ISSN: 1814-2338
Source: Self-asserted source
Matthew William Farthing

Socio-economic impacts of the Women in Aquaculture (WiA) project in Nepal

Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences
2018-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.kjss.2017.12.014
Contributors: Samantha D. Farquhar; Nisha Khanal; Madhav Shrestha; Mathew Farthing; Ram C. Bhujel
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Age and growth of Cape stumpnose Rhabdosargus holubi (Pisces: Sparidae) in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

African Journal of Marine Science
2016-04-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2989/1814232X.2016.1156577
Source: Self-asserted source
Matthew William Farthing

Peer review (1 review for 1 publication/grant)

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