Professor Daryl McPhee is head of higher degree research at Bond University. His core expertise is in fisheries and marine ecology. Dr McPhee has published over 90 reports and publications include Fisheries Management in Australia (Federation Press) and the Environmental History and Ecology of Moreton Bay (CSIRO Publishing). He has undertaken consulting projects on a range of projects including the impacts of dredging and spoil disposal, LNG plants and pipelines, sand extraction, bauxite mining, port developments, desalination, thermal discharge from power generation, and fisheries and marine aquaculture. Dr McPhee is internationally recognised as a leader in fisheries management research and is one of the most well-published researchers of recreational fishing in Australia. Much of his recent work has focused on understanding and mitigating the risk of unprovoked shark bites on people, and the environmental history of Australian coastal areas.
