Wake up to Wogan Lobster Release

We’re not just sad that Terry is retiring but concerned for our baby lobsters that have grown up with his dulcet tones.  In honour of the ‘Wake up to Wogan’ team we decided to adopt 4 lobsters TOGmeister, Splotty, Boggy and Deadly and release them back into the wild.  The team will live on, on the seabed.

International Lobster Science Meeting

Lobster scientists meet to discuss stock enhancement programmes on both sides of the Atlantic.  Dom Boothroyd, General Manager of the National Lobster Hatchery said ‘It was a really productive meeting, amazing work coming out of Canada with a great deal of potential for collaboration.  It was like looking in a mirror’'.  Carly Daniels, PhD researcher and Jake Scolding, Researcher of the NLH presented their work to the group.

In attendance, Martin Mallet, General Director of Homarus Inc. from Canada, Dounia Daoud Postdoctoral Fellow of Crustaceans, Coastal Zones Research Institute, Canada and Craig Burton, Seafood Scotland.  On the second day, scientists from the National Oceanography Centre of Southampton Dr Ken Collins and Anthony Jensen and President of the SAGB Jeremy Simmonds join the talks. 

Researcher Carly Daniels receives award for outstanding research

  Carly Daniels, PhD researcher at the National Lobster Hatchery presented her research at the Burntwood Lecture at the Royal Society in London on the 11th November 2009.  She was presented the John Rose Award 2009 by the Institution of Environmental Science for outstanding research.  The £1,000 award is to help exceptional research fulfill its potential by communicating it beyond the scientific community.

Carly would like to use the money to produce a 3 minute video about her research that will be shown in the visitor centre at the hatchery in Padstow.  The film will uncover the three years work into the use of pre and pro-biotics in lobster nutrition.