Episode 132: Prof. Jeff Leis (IMAS and Australian Museum) - Part 2

This episode features Part 2 of the interview with Jeff Leis, an Adjunct Professor of the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania and a Senior Fellow of the Australian Museum in Sydney. Jeff is recognised internationally as a pioneer in unravelling the taxonomy, early life history dynamics and behaviour of larval fishes. In this Part 2, he relates his earlier research that contributed to a major rethinking of tropical fish larvae dispersal; demonstrating that the larvae are not just passive drifters at the whim of ocean currents and he discusses the importance of that knowledge to fisheries management. Jeff also talks entertainingly of his collaborations with Japan and of his ichthyological encounters with the former Crown Prince (later the Emperor) of that nation, who is a renowned fish biologist himself.