Craig is a highly experienced aquaculturalist with extensive backgrounds in research and applied management and operations of aquaculture systems, including marine and freshwater hatcheries, nurseries and growout and a range of commercial and research species and systems. He has over 25 years of experience in aquaculture and aquatic biology research, and over 15 years’ experience managing the largest freshwater research facility and hatchery in WA with an annual production of over 750,000 fish per year. Dr Lawrence has been involved in a broad range of aquaculture research projects involving national and international partners. Dr Lawrence is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia, has been a Chartered Biologist since 1992 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology in 2014. He has published over 50 significant aquatic biology and aquaculture research papers.