Graduate and Post Graduate Study
We welcome students who are studying for their PhD, MSc or Degree for work experience and/or placements and have hosted numerous students from around the world over the last few years.
We already have strong links with the University of Plymouth and Exeter University and are keen to further our research links.
Check out our research pages to review our current research and to look at past student projects.
If you are interested, don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Shellfish Purification Courses
The National Lobster Hatchery have formed a partnership with Aquafish Solutions and Andy Fitzgerald to become the Southern Shellfish Training Centre. The course will train attendees in the highest standards for bi-valve purification and will be recognised by relevant authorities.
Please go to www.seafoodacademy.org/bvp.html for further details.
Colin Wells, our Senior Hatchery Technician represents the NLH part of this partnership.
Email: Martin Syvret at Aquafish Solutions info@aquafishsolutions.com
Or Colin Wells at the National Lobster Hatchery colin.wells@nationallobsterhatchery.co.uk
Current Courses
The National Lobster Hatchery contributes to the following modules:
Marine Aquaculture & Marine Conservation Foundation Degrees at Cornwall College, Newquay
There marine based courses are ideal for anyone who has a passion for the marine environment and its conservation.
If you are captivated by lobsters, crabs, oysters, mussels and fish then the Marine Aquaculture Foundation Degree will teach you how to breed and care for these fascinating creatures.
The NEW Marine Conservation Foundation Degree is ideal if you would like to explore the science underlying conservation efforts.
Click here to link directly to their website and find out more.
MSc Sustainable Aquaculture System at the University of Plymouth
The programme will reflect key aspects of fish, shellfish and algae production relating to modern aquaculture practices with emphasis on nutrition, feed management, health, welfare and sustainable technology.
It will also incorporate the socio-economic and geo-political developments in this expanding area as well as marketing and enterprise. Socio-economic development and demographic aspects for rural job creation and human resource availability will also be addressed within the wider context of fisheries management.
The theme will be to promote and appreciate the challenges required to develop sustainable solutions for this major global industry.
- Topics include fish nutrition, feed technology, fish & shellfish health management, disease prevention & genetic improvement of stock for aquaculture
- Management of fish production. Ornamental fish culture and global demand for aquatic trades in captive fish species
- Other modules focus on the environmental and legislative regulations in different countries & the problems of aquaculture expansion in rural areas
- Fisheries management and assessment
- Research project leading to dissertation
Click here to link directly to their website and find out more.
The Harris Scholarship
In 2008 Baron Harris made a donation to the National Lobster Hatchery. The donation has enabled the National Lobster Hatchery to set up a small scholarship fund; the Harris Scholarship. The scholarship fund aims to attract the very best MSc students from the Sustainable Aquaculture Systems course to undertake their research project at the NLH. The fund will assist the student by providing them with a grant/bursary of £1,000 that will go towards their accommodation (whilst residing at Padstow) and transport costs. The fund is exclusively available to students on the MSc Sustainable Aquaculture systems course.
The project
The European lobster is not a domesticated animal, there are no commercially available diets and very little research has been undertaken regarding their dietary requirements. The overall goal of the scholarship fund is to develop, over a series of years, a diet that is suitable for the captive rearing of post larval lobsters. To optimise growth and survival and ensure that released animals are in excellent condition. Each year a student should identify a dietary ingredient that is potentially limiting survival and growth and then assess the optimal dietary values.
Initially, background work requires review and specific areas for development need prioritisation. It is anticipated that students will produce publishable work and that successive projects will produce a comprehensive paper that will be submitted for publication jointly by the NLH and UoP. It is anticipated that diets will be manufactured utilising the facilities at the University of Plymouth and that trials will be undertaken at the NLH. Students will be provided with the opportunity to train with NLH staff and receive a good background in LSS maintenance and husbandry practices.
Do you want to apply?
If this is of interest to you then please email Dom Boothroyd (cc Professor Simon Davies of University of Plymouth) with a copy of your CV and a covering letter saying what you feel the priority areas to be addressed are.
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