Dr Ian McCarthy

Uwch Gymrawd Ymchwil

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Room: Room 108A, Nuffield Fish Lab

Phone: 01248 382862

E-mail: i.mccarthy@bangor.ac.uk

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I graduated with a degree in Marine Biology and Zoology from the University College of North Wales, bangor (as was Bangor University) in 1987 and undertook a PhD on individual variation in behavioural and physiological performance in salmonids and sea bass at Aberdeen University under the supervison of Prof. Dominic Houlihan between 1989 and 1992. I remained in Aberdeen for 4 years postdoctoral research studying the physiological ecology of salmonids and flounder. In 1996, I was awarded a NERC Fellowship and I moved to the University Field Station (Glasgow University) on Loch Lomondside to examine the effect of intraspecific variation in physiological performance on growth and life history strategies in salmonid fish. In 1999, I 'popped over the pond' to Mustang Island on the Gulf coast of south Texas to work for Prof. Lee Fuiman at the University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas. My research in south Texas examined the sublethal effects of pollutants on the behavioural and physiological performance of marine fish larvae. I returned to Menai Bridge in February 2002 as a Lecturer in Fish Biology being promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2010 and appointed a Reader in 2016.

Although I trained as a fish biologist, my research interests have broadened and I now work on the behavioural and physiological ecology of aquatic animals (molluscs, echinoderms, crustaceans and fishes). In general, my research interest are:

  1. growth and energetics of aquatic animals (in particular protein synthesis/turnover, trade offs in energy allocation and physiological capacity to survive environmental change)
  2. Consistency of individual physiological and behavioural performance and impacts on life history strategies and fitness
  3. use of chemical tags (isotopes and trace elements) to examine feeding ecology and movement patterns
  4. population biology and management of temperate marine fisheries
  1. Cyhoeddwyd

    Stable isotope analysis reveals ecological segregation in a bimodal size polymorphism in Arctic charr from Loch Tay, Scotland.

    Adams, C. E., Fraser, D., McCarthy, I. D., Shields, S., Waldron, S. & Alexander, G., 1 Chwef 2003, Yn: Journal of Fish Biology. 62, 2, t. 474-481

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolynErthygladolygiad gan gymheiriaid

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    Species, sex, size and male maturity composition of previously unreported elasmobranch landings in Kuwait, Qatar and Abu Dhabi Emirate

    Moore, A. B., McCarthy, I. D., Carvalho, G. R. & Pierce, R., 1 Ebr 2012, Yn: Journal of Fish Biology. 80, 5, t. 1619-1642

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolynErthygladolygiad gan gymheiriaid

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    Spatial and Temporal variation of size at maturity in an intensive crustacean fishery with limited management

    Moore, A., Delargy, A., Cann, R., Heney, C., Le Vay, L., Lincoln, H., McCarthy, I. & Hold, N., 1 Tach 2022, Yn: Fisheries Research. 255, November 2022, 106450.

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolynErthygladolygiad gan gymheiriaid

  4. Cyhoeddwyd

    Short-term size-specific distribution and movement patterns of juvenile flatfish in a Pacific estuary derived through length-frequency and mark-recapture data.

    Herzka, S. Z., Griffiths, R., Fodrie, F. J. & McCarthy, I. D., 1 Maw 2009, Yn: Ciencias Marinas. 35, 1, t. 41-57

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolynErthygladolygiad gan gymheiriaid

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    Sharks vs. the rest of the world: lipid extraction and stable isotopes.

    Hussey, N. E., McCarthy, I. D., Dudley, S. F. & Fisk, A. T., 1 Ion 2008.

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadleddPapur

  6. Cyhoeddwyd

    Sensitivity to near-future CO2 conditions in marine crabs depends on their compensatory capacities for salinity change

    Whiteley, N., Suckling, C., Ciotti, B., Brown, J., McCarthy, I., Gimenez Noya, J. & Hauton, C., 23 Hyd 2018, Yn: Scientific Reports. 8, 15639, t. 1-13 13 t., 8:15639.

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolynErthygladolygiad gan gymheiriaid

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    Repeatability of escape response performance in the queen scallop, Aequipecten opercularis

    Laming, S. R., Jenkins, S. R. & McCarthy, I. D., Medi 2013, Yn: Journal of Experimental Biology. 216, 17, t. 3264-3272

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolynErthygladolygiad gan gymheiriaid

  8. E-gyhoeddi cyn argraffu

    Recruitment of European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) in northerly UK estuaries indicates a mismatch between spawning and fisheries closure periods

    Dawson, J., Lincoln, H., Sturrock, A., Martinho, F. & McCarthy, I., 17 Meh 2024, (E-gyhoeddi cyn argraffu) Yn: Journal of Fish Biology. 13 t., 15843.

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolynErthygladolygiad gan gymheiriaid

  9. Cyhoeddwyd

    Protein synthesis in red drum larvae: time course and effects of contaminants.

    Samberson, H., Fuiman, L. A. & McCarthy, I. D., 1 Ion 2006.

    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gynhadleddPapur

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