Our analysis incorporates the social, economic and environmental consequences of past and future changes and we offer advice for development, sustainability and expansion. The company has long experience of rural development, sensitive to the needs and aspirations of local communities both at home and abroad. This enables sustainable progress to be managed with appropriate sensitivity, safeguarding livelihoods through pro-poor approaches to poverty alleviation.
Nautilus is at the forefront of developing, testing and using techniques to value and communicate social, economic and environmental costs and benefits to allow their inclusion in qualitative and quantitative environmental and development appraisals. We take a participatory approach to environmental management and value the input of all those involved in the management, use and enjoyment of natural resources.
Nautilus have undertaken a variety of projects relating to a wide range of aspects of sustainable tourism and leisure. These projects have explored appropriate economic valuation of tourism and leisure and the need for an appropriate recognition of natural and environmental value in sustainable tourism planning.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Working alongside private sector partners in Suriname and Belgium, and with the government of Suriname, provision of advice and mentoring over a five year period in developing and implementing a practical programme of improvements in fishery management, fishing practice, data collection, scientific research and new decision-making structures and protocols, leading to successful MSC certification of this semi-industrial scale developing country fishery. The speed and extent of the changes
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.
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
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