Name: Dr Ian McCarthy
Position:

Associate
Lecturer, School of Ocean Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor

Experience:

BSc 1987 (Wales)
Phd 1992 (Aberdeen)
1992 - 1996 Aberdeen University
1996 - 1999 University Field Station, Loch Lomondside
1999 - 2002 Austin Marine Science Institute, University of Texas
2002 - University of Wales, Bangor

Research Interests: Freshwater and marine finfish aquaculture: feeding behaviour, diets studies, the physiology of protein metabolism and deposition, new species, selection studies for fast growth/ efficient feed utilisation, growth performance in recirculation systems and the effect of stress on physiology and growth.
 

Fisheries biology: biology and ecology of commercially important fishes. Fisheries management models.
Individual variation in growth rates in fish: the behavioural and physiological causes and its implications for life history strategies. Trade-offs in energy allocation in fish. Relating physiological and life history variation to genetic variation (e.g. heterozygosity). Behavioural and physiological ecology of fishes.
The effect of environmental contaminants (e.g. endocrine disrupting chemicals) on the behaviour and physiology of fish, particularly fish larvae.
The ecology and conservation biolgy of freshwater fish, particularly salmonids.
The use of stable isotopes in the study of fish ecology and physiology.

Email: ossc02@bangor.ac.uk
Publications:

McCarthy, Fuiman & Alvarez (2003) Aroclor 1254 affects growth and survival skills of Atlantic croaker ( Micropogonias undulatus ) larvae. Marine Ecology Progress Series 252 :295-301.

McCarthy, Sanchez & Blanco (2003) Allozyme heterozygosity, date of first feeding and life history strategy in Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar L.). Journal of Fish Biology 62 :341-357.

Adams, Fraser, McCarthy, Shields, Waldron & Alexander (2003) Stable isotope analysis demonstrates ecological segregation in a bimodal size polymorphism in Arctic charr from Loch Tay, Scotland. Journal of Fish Biology 62 :474-481.

Morgan, McCarthy & Metcalfe (2002) Life history strategies and lipid metabolism in overwintering juvenile Atlantic salmon. Journal of Fish Biology 60: 674-686.

Moutou, McCarthy & Houlihan (2001) The effect of dietary flumequine on food consumption and growth in rainbow trout. Aquaculture International, 9 :95-102.

McCarthy (2001) Dominance and competitive ability are related to metabolic asymmetry in juvenile rainbow trout. Journal of Fish Biology , 59 :1002-1014.

Morgan, McCarthy & Metcalfe (2000) Life history strategies and protein metabolism in overwintering juvenile Atlantic salmon: growth is enhanced in early migrants through lower protein turnover. Journal of Fish Biology 56 :637-647.

McCarthy & Waldron (2000) Identifying migratory Salmo trutta using carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry , 14 :1325-1331.

McCarthy (2000) Temporal repeatability of relative standard metabolic rate in juvenile Atlantic salmon and its relation to life history variation. Journal of Fish Biology , 57 :224-238.

Owen, McCarthy, Watt, Ladero, Sanchez & Houlihan (1999) In vivo rates of protein synthesis in Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar L.) smolts measured using a single flooding dose injection of 15 N-phenylalanine. Fish Physiology & Biochemistry , 20 : 87-94.

McCarthy, Moksness, Pavlov & Houlihan (1999) The effects of water temperature on protein synthesis and protein growth in juvenile common wolffish ( Anarhichas lupus L.). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences , 56 : 231-241.

McCarthy, Gair & Houlihan (1999) Feeding rank and dominance in Tilapia rendalli under defensible and indefensible patterns of food distribution. Journal of Fish Biology , 55 : 854-867.