Jennifer I Fincham

Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science | CEFAS · Monitoring

Adapting the current management of marine resources to align with an ecosystem-based approach is becoming increasingly common. Understanding the communities within an area—their species and distribution—is crucial to managing marine activities whilst maintaining ecological function. We performed a broad-scale community analysis of the demersal asse...

Management of the marine environment is increasingly being conducted in accordance with an ecosystem-based approach, which requires an integrated approach to monitoring. Simultaneous acquisition of the different data types needed is often difficult, largely due to specific gear requirements (grabs, trawls, and video and acoustic approaches) and mis...

The use of linear mixed effects models to investigate local adaptation in marine fish subpopulations: case study, changing spawning times of common sole (Solea solea). Populations along environmental gradients have the potential to adapt to their own local environments. It is important to understand these adaptations in fisheries stocks to fully in...

Displacement of fisheries through management has the potential to re-distribute the anthropogenic pressures associated with fishing practices. These anthropogenic pressures occur concurrently with naturally occurring environmental processes, and their combined influences can alter the structure of species assemblages across a region. Spatial variab...

The pressures-activities database "PAD" (2018) is a revised version of the PAD (2015) developed by JNCC using the outputs of the Defra-commissioned contract ME5218 (Defra 2015). JNCC have redeveloped the PAD, firstly to re-format and update it to align with NE's advice on operations and Marine Scotland (MS)/Scottish Natural Heritage's (SNH) FeAST t...

A poster briefly describing the monitoring of the Annex 1 feature coastal lagoons in SACs in Norfolk and Suffolk. This poster was made for display during the Natural England Norfolk & Suffolk MPA evidence event, June 2015.

Phenotypic traits such as peak spawning time may vary within and differ between populations in relation to environmental factors, such as temperature. Sole (Solea solea) is a valuable, commercially exploited species that spawns in late winter or spring. The date of peak spawning was estimated for each year for seven stocks from monthly fish samples...