Hazel Curtis, Chief Economist, Seafish

Current work / areas of expertise:
• Fleet profit estimates - costs and earnings data
• Fisheries management
• Industry surveys and analysis
• CFP reform
• European Association of Fisheries Economists
• STECF - the European Commission's Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries

Angus Garrett, Senior Economist, Seafish

Current work / areas of expertise:
• Value chain networks
• Carbon profiling of supply chains
• Strategic outlook for the seafood industry

Stephen Mangi

Current work / areas of expertise:

Socio-economic impacts of MPAs
Impacts of fishing gear on habitats
Stakeholder perceptions
Quantification and valuation of ecosystem services

Ann Marie Macaskill

Current work / areas of expertise:

North East Scotland Fishing Industry
EU policy and regulation and administration of the European Fisheries Fund
Managing delivery on Axis 4 for the sustainable development of fisheries areas -Economic Development in fishing communities -Co-ordinate partnership with fishing actors, public, private and stakeholders for Aberdeenshire

Phillip Rodgers

Current work/areas of expertise:

Marine Scotland

Current work / areas of expertise:

Marine Scotland's purpose is to manage Scotland's seas for prosperity and environmental sustainability. Our contribution to UKFEN is made from a range of professions and analytical backgrounds including economics, natural science, statistics and operational research. Our role in Marine Scotland is to provide an integrated evidence base in support of policy development and operational delivery. North East Scotland fisheries.

Lucille Paltriguera

Current work / areas of expertise:

evaluating the economic impacts of environmental policy and in the valuation of ecosystem services.
implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive-a Defra-funded project on the implementation of the Directive in the UK, and two European FP7 projects: ODEMM (http://www.liv.ac.uk/ODEMM/) and KnowSeas (http://www.knowseas.com/).
Marine Management Organisation project to support marine planning in the East of England Marine Plan Area.
economic implications of changing the regulatory burden on aquaculture in England and Wales.
currently working on different projects and unable to make a full commitment to the group at present

Sébastien Metz

Current work / areas of expertise:

Fisheries management
Economic impact analysis: fisheries vs offshore windfarms, aggregate extraction...
Ex-ante & ex-post analysis of fisheries management regimes
Bioeconomic modelling and quantitative analysis

Sophie Des Clers

Current work/areas of expertise

Sophie's work is now mostly at the junction between policy, research and implementation of sustainable fisheries management systems
Sophie has been a Team leader in numerous consultancy assignments in Europe and West Africa. She is a also regular evaluator of European research projects, and a corresponding IPCC author on socio-economic adaptation and mitigation of climate change effects on fisheries.
She is an Honorary Senior scientist at the Geography Department of University College London, where she also lectures and supervises students projects on the importance of stakeholders to coastal and marine environmental science and policy.
Recent projects include a socio-economic study of the fisheries and aquaculture sector in Montenegro, the identification and formulation of an EU-cooperation programme in Algeria, a review of the EFF current implementation for the European Parliament (with IEEP) and setting up the GreenFishers Trust, an NGO showcasing fishing industry sustainability initiatives.

Harri Condie

Current work/area of expertise:

Harri is studying discarding in UK commercial fisheries and currently focusing on the economic incentives for selective or unselective fishing generated by current and proposed EU discard policies.

Alyson Little

Current work/areas of expertise:

Alyson is currently working towards her PhD. and is interested in the risk preferences and decision-making of the Scottish North Sea demersal fleet in response to real-time closures.

Stuart Thompson

Current work/areas of expertise

Inshore fisheries
Economic development in fishing communities
Community management of quota

Simon Mason

Current work/areas of expertise

Sustainable Aquaculture: Feasibility Studies, Risk Analysis, Production System Modelling and Environmental Modelling & impact
Capital Markets: Market Structure, Capital Raising, Trading Strategy, Business Analytics & Product Development
Fisheries & Aquaculture Economics: Dynamics between commercial capture fisheries and aquaculture, economics of different aquaculture production systems, assessing the feasibility of 'new' aquaculture/fisheries industry (public and private), evolution of market structure and trading in seafood products (including risk products), the economics of aquaculture/fisheries industry inputs, bio-economics & sustainability

Dr Aaron Hatcher

Current work/areas of expertise

fisheries management and regulation
use of quota management in fisheries and on the implications of non-compliance for fisheries management
involved in a number of collaborative research projects funded by the European Union
has been a member of the EU's Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries

Crick Carleton

Current work/areas of expertise:

fisheries management - rights-based management, quota management systems - review of CFP reform propsals
techno-economic assessments/faseability/business case - seafweed farming and processing
institutional structure, organisation & management - restructuring of EU ACFA
product markets and marketing - finfish, shrimp, marine hydrocolloids, aquarium trade
NR manafment and environmental economics (incl. terrestrial & marine protected areas) - national protected area systems and ecosystem valuation - St Helena; Turks and Caicos Islands
assessor to Marine Stewardship Council sustainability standard - various full and pre-assessmemnts - small pelagics, demersals, flatfish, crustaceans, bivalves
applying simple audit tools to assess NR and fishery management capacities - developemtn of NR audit tool; use of MSC methodology as simple fishery management audit tool
policy, programme and project evaluation specialist (UN, World Bank, EC) - team leader GEF/UNDP evaluation South Pacific tuna management project

Francesca Moore

Current work/areas of expertise:

Assessing the impact of potential Marine Conservation Zones in the Irish Sea upon the UK commercial fisheries sector
Knowledge of commercial fisheries in the Irish Sea, in particular the Northern Irish and Cumbrian fishing nephrops fleets
Cost-benefit analysis
Total Economic Framework
Ecosystem goods and services

John Coppock

Current work/areas of experise:

Economic and biological impacts of marine developments upon fisheries
Fishery Assessment
Ecological impacts of fishing
Fishery management and conservation

Tristan Southall

Current work/areas of expertise:

Fisheries management advice / evaluation
Fisheries sustainability assessments / consultancy
Fisheries liaison work (offshore renewables)
Stakeholder consultation
Fisheries & marine management policy analysis
Regulatory review
Extensive global project expertise including EU fisheries pre-accession training, multiple MSC assessments & sector reviews & evaluations (including aquaculture)

Robert Arthur

Current work/areas of expertise:

Fisheries management and governance
Adaptation, change and resilience in fisheries systems
Assessment of the social and economic impacts of management and policy
Institutional analysis and design
Quantitative and qualitative enquiry

John Anderson

John Anderson

Current work/areas of expertise:

Economic analysis of UK and EU fishing fleets
EU Fisheries Data Collection Framework (DCF)
UK Industry surveys and analysis
Economic impact of CFP reform
I-O Multiplier analysis

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