Dr Isobel Bloor

Research Fellow

Contact info

Room: Thie Slieau Whallian, Isle of Man   Phone: 01624 685840

E-Mail: i.bloor@bangor.ac.uk

Web: http://fisheries-conservation.bangor.ac.uk

 

After graduating from Queen Mary’s University of London with an MSc in Marine Ecology and Environmental management, I worked as a marine ecologist at a small independent marine consultancy managing the impacts of marine related projects. I then worked on a 3 year cross-Channel EU project on cephalopod ecology and completed my PhD in conjunction with the Marine Biological Association and the Marine Institute, University of Plymouth on Cephalopod ecology, movement and behaviour, undertaking the first electronic tagging field study of the common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) in the field. My research has been predominately fisheries and field-work based working directly with inshore potting fishermen, undertaking acoustic and data storage tagging studies and completing in situ scuba surveys of spawning grounds. I also have experience in developing presence-only and presence-absence species distribution models. My current role as a postdoctoral fisheries scientist on the Isle of Man involves developing and undertaking stock assessments and providing the science necessary to assist the government in managing the scallop, lobster and crab fisheries within the territorial sea.

  1. Article › Research › Peer-reviewed
  2. Published

    A standardized assessment of geographic variation in size at maturity of European lobster (Homarus gammarus L.) in the North East Atlantic

    Coleman, M., Jenkins, S., Garratt, M., Hold, N., Bloor, I., Porter, J., Tully, O. & Bell, M., May 2023, In: ICES Journal of Marine Science. 80, 4, p. 911-922 fsac234.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Boom not bust: Cooperative management as a mechanism for improving the commercial efficiency and environmental outcomes of regional scallop fisheries

    Bloor, I., Duncan, P. F., Dignan, S., Emmerson, J., Beard, D., Gell, F. R., McHarg, K. & Kaiser, M. J., 1 Oct 2021, In: Marine Policy. 132, 104649.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Effect of temperature on the growth of the commercially fished common whelk (Buccinum undatum, L.): a regional analysis within the Irish Sea

    Emmerson, J., Hollyman, P., Bloor, I. & Jenkins, S., 1 Mar 2020, In: Fisheries Research. 223, 105437.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Enhancing fishery-dependent information in data-poor fisheries; integrating gear-in–gear-out sensors and mobile reporting technology in a mixed Irish Sea static-gear fishery

    Emmerson, J., Coleman, M., Bloor, I. & Jenkins, S., 1 Sept 2022, In: ICES Journal of Marine Science. 79, 7, p. 2126-2137

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. E-pub ahead of print

    Estimating common whelk (Buccinum undatum) abundance using baited remote underwater video (BRUV)

    Garratt, M., Bloor, I., Coleman, M., Colvin, C., Hiddink, J. G., Hold, N., Phillips, E., Ward, S. & Jenkins, S., 11 Sept 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: ICES Journal of Marine Science.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Estimating the abundance of benthic invertebrates from trap-catch data

    Hiddink, J. G., Coleman, M., Brouwer, S., Bloor, I. & Jenkins, S., Jan 2024, In: ICES Journal of Marine Science. 81, 1, p. 86-96 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Reproductive traits and factors affecting the size at maturity of Cancer pagurus across northern Europe

    Haig, J., Bakke, S., Bell, M. C., Bloor, I., Cohen, M., Coleman, M., Dignan, S., Kaiser, M., Pantin, J. R., Roach, M., Lincoln, H. & Tully, O., 1 Nov 2016, In: ICES Journal of Marine Science. 73, 10, p. 2572-2585

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. Published

    The complexities and challenges of conserving common whelk (Buccinum undatum, L.) fishery resources: Spatio-temporal study of variable population demographics within an environmental context.

    Emmerson, J., Haig, J., Bloor, I. & Kaiser, M., Aug 2018, In: Fisheries Research. 204, p. 125-136

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. Published

    The current and changing role of physio-chemical factors and cues in the embryonic and early life stage development in the common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis)

    Bloor, I., 2016, In: Vie et Milieu. 66, 1, p. 81 95 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review