Bryce Stewart
@bd-stew.bsky.social
Fisheries, conservation & scallop charming. Searching for sustainable ocean solutions @thembauk.bsky.social & @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social https://www.mba.ac.uk/staff/dr-bryce-stewart-bsc-hons-phd/
Creator of #bemorescallop
Creator of #bemorescallop
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Bipartisan laws for fisheries resulted in greater sustainability and profits in the US. Successes due to fishers, NGOs, and of course the many dedicated NOAA and state scientists collecting data, assessing status, and setting catch levels.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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How America's fisheries rebounded from collapse and over-regulation
An unlikely alliance saved U.S. fisheries from collapse - and made them more profitable.
www.usatoday.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Bipartisan laws for fisheries resulted in greater sustainability and profits in the US. Successes due to fishers, NGOs, and of course the many dedicated NOAA and state scientists collecting data, assessing status, and setting catch levels.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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So happy to have this FISH INTEL paper published! Thank you to everyone who contributed- great to see it out there published for everyone to read and use! 🐟🎉
Read it here: doi.org/10.1002/2688...
@plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social
#AcousticTelemetry #LEK #FishIntel
Read it here: doi.org/10.1002/2688...
@plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social
#AcousticTelemetry #LEK #FishIntel
November 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
So happy to have this FISH INTEL paper published! Thank you to everyone who contributed- great to see it out there published for everyone to read and use! 🐟🎉
Read it here: doi.org/10.1002/2688...
@plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social
#AcousticTelemetry #LEK #FishIntel
Read it here: doi.org/10.1002/2688...
@plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social
#AcousticTelemetry #LEK #FishIntel
Wonderful to have played a small part in this new paper showing minimal effects of catch & release angling on three key species of #sharks in UK waters. Huge thanks and well done to @garzonfrancesco.bsky.social & the team @exetermarine.bsky.social for leading this work #sharkscience 👏 🦈
NEW PAPER: Survival and recovery of three shark species in North-East Atlantic recreational fisheries.
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@garzonfrancesco.bsky.social @drmjwitt.bsky.social
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@garzonfrancesco.bsky.social @drmjwitt.bsky.social
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Survival and recovery of three shark species in North-East Atlantic recreational fisheries
Abstract. Understanding how sharks respond to catch and release (C&R) recreational fisheries is an important requirement for effective management. Post
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November 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Wonderful to have played a small part in this new paper showing minimal effects of catch & release angling on three key species of #sharks in UK waters. Huge thanks and well done to @garzonfrancesco.bsky.social & the team @exetermarine.bsky.social for leading this work #sharkscience 👏 🦈
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For the past 4 years I have worked with a wonderful team of scientists and anglers to track sharks in recreational fisheries. With close to 70 tags deployed, we found that good angling practice can result in pretty high survival for sharks! 🦈🎣🌊
NEW PAPER: Survival and recovery of three shark species in North-East Atlantic recreational fisheries.
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@garzonfrancesco.bsky.social @drmjwitt.bsky.social
🦑🐟🧪🌐🌊🎣
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@garzonfrancesco.bsky.social @drmjwitt.bsky.social
🦑🐟🧪🌐🌊🎣
Survival and recovery of three shark species in North-East Atlantic recreational fisheries
Abstract. Understanding how sharks respond to catch and release (C&R) recreational fisheries is an important requirement for effective management. Post
academic.oup.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
For the past 4 years I have worked with a wonderful team of scientists and anglers to track sharks in recreational fisheries. With close to 70 tags deployed, we found that good angling practice can result in pretty high survival for sharks! 🦈🎣🌊
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Another excellent and important paper in our journal. Why not consider publishing your next piece of research with us 🐟 🪸🦈🐚
A new JMBA paper offers the most detailed look yet at the Asian date mussel in UK waters. Researchers found that while densities remain low in the Solent, the species is growing fast (≈1.8 mm/month) and living longer (up to 23 months) than in many parts of its range.
November 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Another excellent and important paper in our journal. Why not consider publishing your next piece of research with us 🐟 🪸🦈🐚
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New report reveals Earth’s carbon safety net is faltering
“The ocean has been our greatest ally in buffering climate change - but that buffer is weakening,” says Dr Katie Smith.
www.youtube.com/shorts/vhR01...
“The ocean has been our greatest ally in buffering climate change - but that buffer is weakening,” says Dr Katie Smith.
www.youtube.com/shorts/vhR01...
New report reveals Earth’s carbon safety net is faltering
YouTube video by The Marine Biological Association
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October 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
New report reveals Earth’s carbon safety net is faltering
“The ocean has been our greatest ally in buffering climate change - but that buffer is weakening,” says Dr Katie Smith.
www.youtube.com/shorts/vhR01...
“The ocean has been our greatest ally in buffering climate change - but that buffer is weakening,” says Dr Katie Smith.
www.youtube.com/shorts/vhR01...
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It's #SeaSlugDay! To celebrate we have selected these beautiful illustrations from 'A Monograph of the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca' volume 1, published by @raysocietybooks.bsky.social. You can find two copies in the rare books room @thembauk.bsky.social 📖 BL.48/A
October 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM
It's #SeaSlugDay! To celebrate we have selected these beautiful illustrations from 'A Monograph of the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca' volume 1, published by @raysocietybooks.bsky.social. You can find two copies in the rare books room @thembauk.bsky.social 📖 BL.48/A
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Hello Everyone! We're super excited to be here. @thembauk.bsky.social was established 140 years ago, and there has been a library on site at the Citadel Hill laboratory ever since it opened in 1888! We're looking forward to sharing our stories with you #library #books
December 4, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Hello Everyone! We're super excited to be here. @thembauk.bsky.social was established 140 years ago, and there has been a library on site at the Citadel Hill laboratory ever since it opened in 1888! We're looking forward to sharing our stories with you #library #books
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Found! This #TrickyTaxonThursday an illustration of Scorpaena scrofa from 'A History of the Fishes of Madeira' by Richard Thomas Lowe, 1843-1860 📖BL.70/L
October 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Found! This #TrickyTaxonThursday an illustration of Scorpaena scrofa from 'A History of the Fishes of Madeira' by Richard Thomas Lowe, 1843-1860 📖BL.70/L
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A new JMBA paper offers the most detailed look yet at the Asian date mussel in UK waters. Researchers found that while densities remain low in the Solent, the species is growing fast (≈1.8 mm/month) and living longer (up to 23 months) than in many parts of its range.
October 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
A new JMBA paper offers the most detailed look yet at the Asian date mussel in UK waters. Researchers found that while densities remain low in the Solent, the species is growing fast (≈1.8 mm/month) and living longer (up to 23 months) than in many parts of its range.
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If AI & intertidal ecology tick your boxes, apply for the PhD with myself, Baihua Li & Jonathan Millet at Loughborough University and the Marine Biological Association. A transdiscipinary opportunity combining fieldwork & AI. @thembauk.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Combining long-term ecological monitoring with AI-analysis and field experiments to model biodiversity responses to climate change at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Combining long-term ecological monitoring with AI-analysis and field experiments to model biodiversity responses to climate change at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
If AI & intertidal ecology tick your boxes, apply for the PhD with myself, Baihua Li & Jonathan Millet at Loughborough University and the Marine Biological Association. A transdiscipinary opportunity combining fieldwork & AI. @thembauk.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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They’ve only gone & done it! 🎉 PML team 'Kraken the Code' has been named one of the 3 winners of the Blue-Cloud 2026 #Hackathon, winning €25k. Their project 'OctoPulse' forecasts future #Octopus booms to support fishers by helping them anticipate changes to their catches: pml.ac.uk/news/pml-tea...
PML team celebrates win at Blue-Cloud Hackathon 2025!
We’re delighted to announce that, yesterday, a multidisciplinary team of researchers from Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) were selected as one of three winning teams of the Blue-Cloud Hackathon 202
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October 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
They’ve only gone & done it! 🎉 PML team 'Kraken the Code' has been named one of the 3 winners of the Blue-Cloud 2026 #Hackathon, winning €25k. Their project 'OctoPulse' forecasts future #Octopus booms to support fishers by helping them anticipate changes to their catches: pml.ac.uk/news/pml-tea...
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An interesting A-Z of fishy art, stories, poems and insights into #Ocean life is now live! This online overview will head to a gallery in Pier street in Hull and then into print in the coming months
Www.thecriticalfishtrail.co.uk
@bd-stew.bsky.social
@uoyenvironment.bsky.social
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@bd-stew.bsky.social
@uoyenvironment.bsky.social
The Critical Fish Trail
Www.thecriticalfishtrail.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
An interesting A-Z of fishy art, stories, poems and insights into #Ocean life is now live! This online overview will head to a gallery in Pier street in Hull and then into print in the coming months
Www.thecriticalfishtrail.co.uk
@bd-stew.bsky.social
@uoyenvironment.bsky.social
Www.thecriticalfishtrail.co.uk
@bd-stew.bsky.social
@uoyenvironment.bsky.social
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"Why sequence the #genome of every species? A view from evolutionary biology" Did you catch this amazing new review in our journal by @peterhox.bsky.social? REad it for FREE here now: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @thembauk.bsky.social #dnasequencing #chromosome #mutation #evolution
September 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"Why sequence the #genome of every species? A view from evolutionary biology" Did you catch this amazing new review in our journal by @peterhox.bsky.social? REad it for FREE here now: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @thembauk.bsky.social #dnasequencing #chromosome #mutation #evolution
LAST CHANCE to fill out our #octopus surveys! Fishermen & divers of the UK, have your say if you haven't already, surveys close at midnight tonight, Sunday 21st September! @thembauk.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @pml.ac.uk @plymuni.bsky.social Please share 🐙
Fishermen & divers of the UK we need YOU! Our #octopus bloom surveys have been extended to Sept 21st. If you haven't already done so, please fill out the fishermen's survey survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90884550/... or divers survey survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90886025/... Thank you! Please share widely! 🐙
September 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
LAST CHANCE to fill out our #octopus surveys! Fishermen & divers of the UK, have your say if you haven't already, surveys close at midnight tonight, Sunday 21st September! @thembauk.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @pml.ac.uk @plymuni.bsky.social Please share 🐙
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🔬 We’re Hiring!
Become the next MBA Postdoctoral Career Development Fellow
Are you ready to take the next step in your research career and lead the way in marine biology? Find out more 👉 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/postdoct...
📅 Apply by 15 October 2025
#MarineBiology #MarineScience #AcademicJobs
Become the next MBA Postdoctoral Career Development Fellow
Are you ready to take the next step in your research career and lead the way in marine biology? Find out more 👉 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/postdoct...
📅 Apply by 15 October 2025
#MarineBiology #MarineScience #AcademicJobs
September 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🔬 We’re Hiring!
Become the next MBA Postdoctoral Career Development Fellow
Are you ready to take the next step in your research career and lead the way in marine biology? Find out more 👉 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/postdoct...
📅 Apply by 15 October 2025
#MarineBiology #MarineScience #AcademicJobs
Become the next MBA Postdoctoral Career Development Fellow
Are you ready to take the next step in your research career and lead the way in marine biology? Find out more 👉 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/postdoct...
📅 Apply by 15 October 2025
#MarineBiology #MarineScience #AcademicJobs
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The Octopus Survey 🚨
Fishermen across the Southwest are reporting more and more octopus turning up in pots, traps, and on deck this year. We need your insight before the survey closes!
👉 Take the survey now before it closes -
survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90884550/...
Fishermen across the Southwest are reporting more and more octopus turning up in pots, traps, and on deck this year. We need your insight before the survey closes!
👉 Take the survey now before it closes -
survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90884550/...
September 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The Octopus Survey 🚨
Fishermen across the Southwest are reporting more and more octopus turning up in pots, traps, and on deck this year. We need your insight before the survey closes!
👉 Take the survey now before it closes -
survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90884550/...
Fishermen across the Southwest are reporting more and more octopus turning up in pots, traps, and on deck this year. We need your insight before the survey closes!
👉 Take the survey now before it closes -
survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90884550/...
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👀 Spotted an #octopus off the #SouthWest coast? #Fishermen & #divers, we want to hear from you! 🐙
Take part in this survey (closing Sun 21 Sept) & help us study this year’s unusual #CommonOctopus bloom:
🎣 Fishers: survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90884550/...
🤿 Divers: survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90886025/...
Take part in this survey (closing Sun 21 Sept) & help us study this year’s unusual #CommonOctopus bloom:
🎣 Fishers: survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90884550/...
🤿 Divers: survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90886025/...
September 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
👀 Spotted an #octopus off the #SouthWest coast? #Fishermen & #divers, we want to hear from you! 🐙
Take part in this survey (closing Sun 21 Sept) & help us study this year’s unusual #CommonOctopus bloom:
🎣 Fishers: survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90884550/...
🤿 Divers: survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90886025/...
Take part in this survey (closing Sun 21 Sept) & help us study this year’s unusual #CommonOctopus bloom:
🎣 Fishers: survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90884550/...
🤿 Divers: survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90886025/...
Fishermen & divers of the UK we need YOU! Our #octopus bloom surveys have been extended to Sept 21st. If you haven't already done so, please fill out the fishermen's survey survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90884550/... or divers survey survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90886025/... Thank you! Please share widely! 🐙
September 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Fishermen & divers of the UK we need YOU! Our #octopus bloom surveys have been extended to Sept 21st. If you haven't already done so, please fill out the fishermen's survey survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90884550/... or divers survey survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90886025/... Thank you! Please share widely! 🐙
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New paper out in Royal Society Open Science: Biodiversity is the common factor for juvenile nursery habitat for 3 commercially important species. Marine protection should focus on whole-site health, not just individual features @davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Seascape ecology of juvenile gadoid nursery areas | Royal Society Open Science
Availability of juvenile fish habitat provision can impact recruitment. This study focused on identifying which environmental variables characterize the juvenile habitats of three commercially important gadoid species: Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), haddock ...
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September 12, 2025 at 8:58 AM
New paper out in Royal Society Open Science: Biodiversity is the common factor for juvenile nursery habitat for 3 commercially important species. Marine protection should focus on whole-site health, not just individual features @davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
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Our new paper on marine mapping and biodiversity, using a combination of underwater imaging techniques:
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@davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @plosone.org
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@davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @plosone.org
A novel use of Stereo Baited Remote Underwater Video and Drop-Down Video for biodiversity and marine landscape mapping and prediction
To make the best-informed decisions on managing marine resources whilst also restoring biodiversity, the creation and analysis of benthic maps is highly valuable. This study focuses on benthic mapping...
journals.plos.org
April 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Our new paper on marine mapping and biodiversity, using a combination of underwater imaging techniques:
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
@davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @plosone.org
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
@davemarinebio.glasgow.ac.uk @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @plosone.org
A pleasure as always to drop in to @3rrrfm.bsky.social Radio Marinara in Melbourne this morning to share the latest marine news from the UK. This time, it was all about the #octopus bloom 🐙 The whole show is great. You can hear my interview at about 13 minutes in: www.rrr.org.au/explore/prog...
Programs: Radio Marinara — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio
The team continues the great Marinara tradition of bringing you a quirky but informative look at all that is marine.
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September 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
A pleasure as always to drop in to @3rrrfm.bsky.social Radio Marinara in Melbourne this morning to share the latest marine news from the UK. This time, it was all about the #octopus bloom 🐙 The whole show is great. You can hear my interview at about 13 minutes in: www.rrr.org.au/explore/prog...
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UK experienced its hottest summer on record in 2025, Met Office says
"a summer as hot or hotter than 2025 is now 70 times more likely than it would be in a ‘natural’ climate" with no emissions from fossil fuel burning
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
"a summer as hot or hotter than 2025 is now 70 times more likely than it would be in a ‘natural’ climate" with no emissions from fossil fuel burning
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK experienced its hottest summer on record in 2025, Met Office says
Mean temperature over June, July and August was 16.1C as country endured four heatwaves
www.theguardian.com
September 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
UK experienced its hottest summer on record in 2025, Met Office says
"a summer as hot or hotter than 2025 is now 70 times more likely than it would be in a ‘natural’ climate" with no emissions from fossil fuel burning
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
"a summer as hot or hotter than 2025 is now 70 times more likely than it would be in a ‘natural’ climate" with no emissions from fossil fuel burning
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This is where it's at! "Science research gets more engagement on Bluesky than X, study finds" www.theguardian.com/technology/2... @whysharksmatter.bsky.social #bluesky #blueskyvstwitter #scicomm
September 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
This is where it's at! "Science research gets more engagement on Bluesky than X, study finds" www.theguardian.com/technology/2... @whysharksmatter.bsky.social #bluesky #blueskyvstwitter #scicomm