Patrick Nugent

Background

About Patrick Nugent

Patrick Nugent is an Associate Consultant at MRAG Ltd and Fisheries Technical Specialist at Teem Fish Monitoring Inc. with professional experience in fisheries monitoring and management, environmental management and fisheries information systems. From 2014 to 2018 he was the programme manager of the ICCAT Transhipment ROP, ICCAT Bluefin Tuna ROP as well as the South Georgia observer programme. He is also an experienced lead auditor for MSC Chain of Custody, social standards and quality management (ISO9001) and has performed a number of traceability audits on tuna, salmon and herring processors against bespoke client standards. He has been involved in electronic monitoring work since 2014. He has managed multiple electronic monitoring projects including an extensive multi-phase audit of an electronic monitoring system, including review and analysis, the development of a business case focusing on cost recovery options for electronic monitoring for the Ghanaian tuna purse seine fleet and a project exploring using EM to monitor the Landing Obligation on pelagic trawlers. He has presented at a number of intergovernmental meetings, conferences and expert workshops related to fisheries monitoring and IUU.