Magnus Johnson

Marine and Fisheries Scientist with interests in crustaceans, fisheries science and management and statistical programming. Gradually realising that spreadsheets don't tell the whole story.

I have been involved with inshore fisheries locally along the Yorkshire coast for the last 15 years - assisting in negotiations between fishers and developers or carrying out research in partnership with them. At a UK level I have worked with the UK Shark Tagging 2000 scheme, advised Holderness Fishing Industry Group to deal with developments, assisted IECS in developing a monitoring strategy for Flamborough Head No Take Zone and supervised a review of fishing activity in Grimsby for Poisidon Consultants. At a European level I have assisted the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers. I've worked with Scottish fishermen in developing a management plan for the Fladden Nephrops fishery and locating cod hotspots off the west coast.

I have edited for the J. Crustacean Biology, PeerJ and the Marine Stewardship Council and put together a volumes on Nephrops norvegicus (langoustine, scampi, prawns) and Marine Managed Areas for Advances in Marine Biology. I have served as a reviewer for Marine Scotland and the European Commission REA on fisheries related grants. I recently co-wrote a book for UGs on basic statistics.

I was the university of Hull lead on an FP7 project (NEPHROPS) worth Euro 500 000. The total project was worth over Euro 3 million and is a collaboration between various SMEs and Hull, Galway, Swansea, Gothenburg and the Technology Institute in Norway. Currently I'm working with Yorkshire Wildlife Trust on developing an aquaculture training site and re-establishing native oysters to the Humber Estuary, developing a shark tagging scheme for the North Sea and trialing a benthic ROV for ecological assessment.