On 4th week of August 2025, our team from NT Fisheries participated in the RTMB course that was delivered by Andre Punt at DPIRD of WA Fisheries. RTMB is an R package that facilitate running model in TMB aka Template Model Builder. The course content include tutorials for a range of examples estimating model parameters using automatic differentiation starting from growth equations, surplus production models, age structured models to hierarchial models.

On the 3rd week of August 2025, I delivered an oral presentation demonstrating how length based indicators (LBIs) can be useful in determining the sustainability status of fish stocks in a data-limited or data-poor context. Along with authors from other jurisdictions, we also presented the idea of establishing a Australian Stock Assessment 'Community of Practice' (CoP) to build stock assessment capacity and resources in Australia. I was also chairing the scientific committee running the conference for Australian Society of Fish Biology (ASFB).