Completion of Newcastle University Masters projects

Over the past year we have been working closely with two students enrolled on the International Marine Environmental Consultancy Masters course at Newcastle University who have been analysing fisher’s behaviour, the spatial distribution of potting activity and other aspects of the lobster and crab fishery in Northumberland.

You can read the full reports here (and in the Publications –> Technical Reports section of the website):

Decision to fish: Fishers’ behaviour within the Northumberland inshore pot fishery

Lobster, fishing effort and habitat interactions in the Northumberland pot fishery (Natalie Wallace 2015)