I am born and raised in North Wales and began my Marine Biology career in 2014, completing a BSc Marine Biology and Zoology at Bangor University. I then completed a MSc in Marine Environmental Protection in 2018, where my thesis researched the artisanal and recreational fisheries of the Cayman Islands. 

I then conducted 6 months of fieldwork in the Philippines, collaborating with local fishers and conducting baseline biological survey to implement or adapt marine protected areas to ensure continued sustainable subsistence fishery practices. 

I then returned to Bangor and joined the Sustainable fisheries Wales team to conduct research on the small-scale fishing fleet of inshore Wales, largely focussing on the pot fisheries for European Lobster, Homarus gammarus and Brown Crab, Cancer pagurus. 

Currently working in collaboration with Aberystwyth University on a Fisheries Industry Science Partnership funded project, using mark recapture and BRUV methods to evaluate lobster fisheries opportunities at an offshore wind farm in the UK.

I also working within the 'Filling the Gap Crustacean FISP' project seeking to understand the landings composition of crustacean fisheries and the relationship between size and environmental variables such as depth, temperature and distance from shore. The outcomes of this project will hopefully feed into upcoming fisheries management plans.

I am also in the second year of a PhD assessing growth, reproduction and age of European Lobster, Homarus gammarus with potential application to stock assessment and fisheries management.

2025

• PublishedCommercial pot selectivity for European lobster, Homarus gammarus, estimated through a novel v-notching mark-recapture approach
  Heney, C., Gross, J., Hoenig, J. & Hold, N., 1 Feb 2025, In: Fisheries Research. 282, 107283.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2024

• PublishedPredicting 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 journal › Article › peer-review

2023

• PublishedAutomated Video-Based Capture of Crustacean FIsheries Data Using Low-Power Hardware
  Dal Toe, S. G., Neal, M., Hold, N., Heney, C., Turner, B., McCoy, E., Iftikhar, M. & Tiddeman, B., 15 Sept 2023, In: Sensors. 23, 18, 7897.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedBycatch 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 journal › Article › peer-review

2022

• PublishedDetection 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 journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedSpatial 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 journal › Article › peer-review