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I am born and raised in North Wales and began my Marine Biology career in 2014, completing a BSc Marine Biology and Zoology at ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ. I then completed a MSc in Marine Environmental Protection in 2018, where my thesis researched the artisanal and recreational fisheries of the Cayman Islands.Ìý

I then conducted 6 months of fieldwork in the Philippines, collaborating with local fishers and conducting baseline biological survey to implement or adapt marine protected areas to ensure continued sustainable subsistence fishery practices.Ìý

I then returned to Bangor and joined the Sustainable fisheries Wales team to conduct research on the small-scale fishing fleet of inshore Wales, largely focussing on the pot fisheries for European Lobster, Homarus gammarus and Brown Crab, Cancer pagurus.Ìý

Currently working in collaboration with Aberystwyth University on a Fisheries Industry Science Partnership funded project, using mark recapture and BRUV methods to evaluate lobster fisheries opportunities at an offshore wind farm in the UK.

I also working within the 'Filling the Gap Crustacean FISP' project seeking to understand the landings composition of crustacean fisheries and the relationship between size and environmental variables such as depth, temperature and distance from shore. The outcomes of this project will hopefully feed into upcoming fisheries management plans.

I am also in the second year of a PhD assessing growth, reproduction and age of European Lobster, Homarus gammarus with potential application to stock assessment and fisheries management.

2025

• Published
  Heney, C., Gross, J., Hoenig, J. & Hold, N., 1 Feb 2025, In: Fisheries Research. 282, 107283.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2024

• Published
  Lincoln, H., Robins, P., Wilmes, S.-B., Pérez-Mayol, S., Moore, A., Simpson, S., Goward Brown, A., Heney, C., Malham, S., Morales-Nin, B., Hold, N. & McCarthy, I., 1 Feb 2024, In: Fisheries Research. 270, 106884.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2023

• Published
  Dal Toe, S. G., Neal, M., Hold, N., Heney, C., Turner, B., McCoy, E., Iftikhar, M. & Tiddeman, B., 15 Sept 2023, In: Sensors. 23, 18, 7897.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Moore, A., Heney, C., Lincoln, H., Colvin, C., Newell, H., Turner, B., McCarthy, I. & Hold, N., 1 Sept 2023, In: Fisheries Research. 265, 106745.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2022

• Published
  Delargy, A., Hold, N., Heney, C., Cann, R., Bhandari, K., Colvin, C., Moore, A., Lincoln, H., Hiddink, J. G. & McCarthy, I., 1 Oct 2022, In: Fisheries Research. 254, 106371, 106371.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Moore, A., Delargy, A., Cann, R., Heney, C., Le Vay, L., Lincoln, H., McCarthy, I. & Hold, N., 1 Nov 2022, In: Fisheries Research. 255, November 2022, 106450.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2025

• Held a workshop within the Seafood Innovation Conference 2025 to showcase the fisheries team in ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ. Specifically, European Lobster tagging was shown in poster format to discuss the site fidelity shown during telemetry research conducted by Harry Thatcher at Aberystwyth University. Also, the Brown Crab soft shell project looking into the hardness of shells and the possibility of applying a threshold to shell softness that can be utilized in the field for fisher and enforcement agency.

  25 Feb 2025 – 26 Feb 2025

  Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Participant)

• Third year PhD talk on the gear selectivity of pot fishing gear for European Lobster. Paper published in Fisheries Research earlier this year.

  2025

  Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)

2024

• Visiting as a researcher to collaborate with the Fraser Clark Lab investigating haemolymph taken from European Lobster to detect vitellogenin, the reproductive hormone across seasons and size ranges.

  Oct 2024 – Dec 2024

  Activity: Visiting an external academic institution (Visiting researcher)