Nautilus has long experience in the field of aquaculture, both tropical and temperate. The company has a strong technical background in all aspects of aquaculture and has applied this knowledge to business development and feasibility studies, environmental management and monitoring, as well as development of best practise guidelines. Since the company’s first involvement with aquaculture Nautilus has advocated sustainable production techniques, remaining well within local carrying capacity. Nautilus continues to be a progressive voice in the on-going global aquaculture debate.
Nautilus has a wealth of fishery expertise and fishery management knowledge. This detailed sectoral understanding has been applied to a wide variety of projects in all parts of the world for over the last 25 years. Nautilus recognises the importance of the economic dimension in governing fleet activity ensuring sustainable exploitation of finite stocks. Fishery projects undertaken by the company often require multi-disciplinary skills to capture the interactions with marketing, process efficiency, socio-economics and wider conservation targets.
Nautilus has a growing portfolio of projects in the area of biodiversity and conservation. The company’s long experience in sustainable resource use has highlighted the need for clear recognition of real-world practicalities in pursuit of conservation goals. This approach has enabled the company to succeed, where in the past others have failed, in bringing a variety of parties together and facilitating increased buy-in to conservation initiatives. The company is well informed on national and international obligations and statutory responsibilities relating to nature conservation, precaution and sustainability and this underpins the work of the company in all areas.
Examination of how the raft of proposed CFP policy changes might be expected to support or hinder the adoption of practices that reduce overall impact on the marine and wider environment, and more specifically the adoption of low impact and low carbon fishing.
Examination of recent mariculture development in the island countries of the South Pacific, drawing on national case study material from PNG, the Solomon Islands, the Marshall Islands, Fiji and the Cook Islands, and drawing on the successes and failures to inform guidelines on further and future developments.
Responding to a controversial and damaging incident of illegal fishing in Sierra Leone inshore waters, an investor group with interests in the managing company sought independent assessment of the incident and advice on how to ensure no repetition of such fishing behaviour, and how to strengthen corporate operating standards and compliance.
With increased interest in conversion of biomass to methane or alcohol as an energy source, seaweed has become a recurrent focus of attention. As part of a technology foresight programme, this comprehensive study examines the techno-economic aspects of industrial scale cultivation of various species of seaweed relative to existing value chains as sources of hydrocolloids, international market conditions, and the costs at which it could be made available to
Terminal evaluation of the Oceanic Fishery Management Project - as large (US$200M) regional programme of assistance to Pacific Island states focused on strengthening their capacity to improve monitoring and management of oceanic tuna stocks and fisheries against a backdrop of rising exploitation, and dominance of the fishery by the fleets of metropolitan countries.
As part of work to broaden application of the Marine Stewardship Council standard - notably to small-scale and data-poor fisheries - input to the pre-assessment of the Gambia canoe gill-net fishery for tropical sole.
Further to our work on the special position of fishing and fisheries in the long-standing and continuing sustainability of Ireland's gaelic speaking offshore islands, we were asked to put forward the case representing the fragility of these community / natural resources linkages and the need for a degree of formal recognition of this special status and its heritage implications. Ireland's offshore island communities are not alone in this situation, with many other peripheral island communities dotted around the coastline of the European C
Review of the management of 26 different small-scale inshore fisheries, using the MSC assessment methodology as an audit tool, to identify strengths and weaknesses, draw up a suitable R&D programme and demonstrate how to bring overall and specific fisheries management within the scope of MSC certification. This pilot was subsequently used as the model for the roll-out of management improvement programmes in each of the ten new Inshore Fisheries Conservation Authorities (IFCAs), estab
Review of the management tools available for the management of the inshore and offshore brown crab fisheries of Western Europe, their impact and effectiveness, and how they might be deployed to improve stock condition, reduce effort and improve operating economics.
Examining the options for measuring changes in the scale of illegal fishing where direct measurement of illegal activity is not possible - for example through different approaches to stock modeling, probability analysis and monitoring of trade throughputs; part of the process of moving towards MSC assessment.
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