Michel Kaiser

Michel Kaiser’s research focuses on understanding how to achieve sustainable food production from the sea in relation to fisheries and aquaculture. This necessarily involves a wide range of approaches from understanding how human activities impact upon the marine environment and its organisms, through to working with fishers to gather data needed to assess populations of harvested fish and shellfish. There are a variety of management tools that can be used to manage human activities such as technical modification of fishing gear and the use of marine protected areas, both of which are key research areas. His work involves extensive field work ranging from Tonga to the Mediterranean to the UK shelf seas. Current projects include: a global collaboration of scientists to formulate a best practices approach to bottom trawling and dredging and to understand how this affects fish production; research to underpin sustainable fisheries and advise the Isle of Man and Welsh Governments in relation to their fisheries; working with the Prince’s Charities International Sustainability Unit on the ‘Fishing into the Future’ initiative to train the fishers of tomorrow in relation to best practice and behaviour and in data gathering.