Glenn Quelch

Background

About Glenn Quelch

Summary of key experience: Commercial fisherman - experience of bottom and pelagic trawling, bottom longlining, handlining, gillnetting, tanglenetting and potting. Secretary, Grimsby Fish Producer’s Organisation. Coordinator of Regional Advisory Committees. Non-Sector Management Advisory Committee member. Advisory role in distant water fisheries. United Kingdom Support representative member of Europêche. Yorkshire and Humberside Fishing Consortium representative on regional PESCA Advisory Committee. Dredging Liaison Committee member. Secretary – Technical Committee. Senior Observer - NAFO Regulatory Area. Senior Fisheries Protection Officer - Indian Ocean. Scientific Observer - CCAMLR. Chartered member of the UK Institute of Fisheries Management (Marine Technical Group member). Chartered Environmentalist. Active member and Co-Chair of Observer Professionalism Working Group; International Fisheries Observer Conference; contributing editor on the ‘Eyes of the Seas’ fisheries observer book project. Support role to desk manager Mediterranean (EC). Chief Fisheries Officer, Malta: representative to RFMOs, EC, CFCA, FAO. Manager of external experts under CEI (Call for Expressions of Interest). Management of a wide range of fisheries projects. Capacity building experience in Sierra Leone, Liberia, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts & Nevis, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. Transshipment fact finding in Ecuador, Peru and Thailand. West African regional work with ECOWAS, the Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission and the Fisheries Committee of the Western Central Gulf of Guinea.