Dr Ian McCarthy

Reader in Marine Biology

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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. 2022
  2. Published

    Detection and quantification of differences in catch rates among research vessel gears and commercial vessels

    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 journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    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 Nov 2022, In: Fisheries Research. 255, November 2022, 106450.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. 2023
  5. Published

    Bycatch in northeast Atlantic lobster and crab pot fisheries (Irish Sea, Celtic Sea and Bristol Channel)

    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 journalArticlepeer-review

  6. 2024
  7. Published

    Predicting potential spawning areas of European bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, in the Irish and Celtic Seas

    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 journalArticlepeer-review

  8. E-pub ahead of print

    An assessment of post-capture condition and survival of Rajidae caught in fixed nets

    Clarke, L., Holding, P. & McCarthy, I., 1 Aug 2024, In: Fisheries Research. 276, 107041.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

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