Tim Marsden

Background

About Tim Marsden

Tim Marsden is a fisheries biologist who specialises in the provision of fish passage at man-made barriers to fish migration. As the principal for Australasian Fish Passage Services (AFPS) Tim collaborates with a team of like-minded professionals in the areas of barrier identification and prioritisation, fishway design and construction and fish community and fishway monitoring. Tim has been designing and implementing fisheries related projects throughout Australia and SE Asia for over 24 years. He has overseen the successful construction of hundreds of fishways, from small nature-like fishways to large dam fish locks. He has also undertaken numerous fish community and fishway monitoring projects as well as implementing a wide range of fisheries habitat improvement projects. With this wealth of experience Tim has developed an intimate knowledge of the fish communities of Australia, while more recently, Tim has built up a detailed knowledge of the migratory behaviour of the fishes of the Mekong basin while implementing fish passage projects in Laos. Tim is a proven leader and has an enviable project delivery and team leadership record, delivering hundreds of complex fisheries projects on-time and to budget. These projects have been delivered in a variety of work environments, such as government policy development, state and federally funded projects, Australian consultancies, international NGO projects and international consultancies. Tim is also an innovator, leading the field of fish passage science in Australia through the development of new fish passage designs and innovative solutions to fish passage problems. These skills have been well recognised in Australia and overseas with Tim leading groups such as the AFSB Fish Passage sub-committee and participating in groups such as the Don Sahong Hydropower Dam Fish Passage Expert Panel.