Dr Paul Brickle

Research Interests

Paul’s current research interests are the reproductive biology, age and growth, population dynamics, population structure and assessment of fish species inhabiting the waters around the Falkland Islands and the southern Patagonian Shelf. He also has a very keen interest marine parasites and their use as biological tags for investigating the population structure and migration of fish hosts. Paul has been and continues to be a part of a number of trophic studies of marine fish around the Falkland Islands and is interested in the environmental and fisheries impact on trophic structures in communities. Paul is also interested in the shallow marine ecology of Falkland Islands’ coasts and runs the Shallow Marine Surveys Group.

Background and Qualifications

In his current position Paul is responsible for the biology, fisheries monitoring and assessment of the Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) red cod (Salilota australis) and kingclip fisheries in the Falkland Islands. Paul is also responsible for inshore fisheries which include the Falklands mullet (Eleginops maclivinus), false kingcrab (Paralomis granulosa) and sea urchin (Loxechinus albus).

Paul has a B.Sc. (hons) in Marine Biology from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Aberdeen University. Paul’s Ph.D. was on the parasite ecology of the Patagonian toothfish and he used their parasites as tools for examining their population structure around the Southern Ocean. Paul has also worked on the fisheries biology of Patagonotothen ramsayi and Eleginops maclovinus for the department.

Paul has over 30 peer reviewed publications of which twenty of the most recent are listed below.

Publications

Sullivan, B. J., Brickle, P., Reid, T. A. Bone D. G., and Midddleton, D. A. J. (2006) Trials of devises designed to reduce seabird mortality caused by warp strike on factory trawler. Polar Biology. 29: 745 – 753.
Brickle, P., Arkhipkin, A., and Shcherbich, Z. (2006). Age and growth of a sub-Antarctic notothenioid, Patagonotothen ramsayi(Regan, 1913) from around the Falkland Islands. Polar Biology. 29: 633 – 639.
Brickle, P., Laptihovsky, V., Arkhipkin, A. and Portela, J. (2006). Reproductive biology of Patagonotothen ramsayi (Regan, 1913) (Pisces: Nototheniidae) around the Falkland Islands. Polar Biology.29: 570 – 580.
Laptikhovski, V., Arkhipkin, A., Brickle, P. (2006). Distribution and reproduction of the Patagonian toothfish Dissostichus eleginoides Smitt around the Falkland Islands. Journal of Fish Biology. 68: 849 – 861.
Brickle, P., Kalavati, C. and MacKenzie, K. (2006) Henneguya shakletoni sp. nov. (Myxosporea: Bivalvulida: Myxobolidae) from the Falklands mullet, Eleginops maclovinus (Cuvier) (Teleostei: Eleginopidae) in the Falkland Islands. Acta Parasitologica. 51: 36 – 39.
Brickle, P., MacKenzie, K., Pike, A. (2006). Variations in the parasite fauna of the Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides, Smitt 1898), with size, season and depth around the Falkland Islands. Journal of Parasitology. 92: 282 – 291.
Sacau, M., Pierce, G. J., Wang, J., Arkhipkin, A. I., Portela, J., Brickle, P., Santos, M. B., Zuur, A. F. and Cardoso, X. (2005). The spatio-temporal pattern of Illex argentinus shortfin squid Illex argentinus abundance in the southwest Atlantic. Aquatic Living Resources 18(4): 361 – 372.
•Brickle, P., Arkhipkin, A., Shcherbich, Z. (2005) Age and growth in a euryhaline sub-Antarctic notothenioid, Eleginops maclovinus (Cuv., & Val., 1830). Journal of Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 85: 1217 – 1221.
•Brickle, P., Laptikhovski, V., Arkhipkin, A. (2005) Reproductive strategy of a primitive temperate Eleginops maclovinus (Cuv., & Val., 1830) (Notothenioidea: Eleginopidae). Journal of Fish Biology.66: 1044 – 1059.
•Brickle, P., MacKenzie, K., Pike, A. (2005) Parasites of the Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides Smitt, 1898) from Antarctic waters. Polar Biology. 28: 663 – 671.
•Laptikhovsky, V. and Brickle, P. (2005) The Patagonian toothfish fishery in the Falkland Islands’ waters. Fisheries Research. 74: 11 – 23.
Nyegaard, M., Arkhipkin, A., Brickle, P. (2004). An alternating discard scavenger: variation in the diet of kingclip, Genypterus blacodes (Ophidiidae) around the Falkland Islands. Journal of Fish Biology. 65: 666 – 682.
Arkhipkin, A., Brickle, P. and Laptikhovsky, V. (2003). Variation in the diet of the Patagonian toothfish, Dissostichus eleginoides (Perciformes: Nototheniidae), with size, depth and season around the Falkland Islands (Southwest Atlantic). Journal of Fish Biology. 63: 428-441
Brickle, P., Buxton, N. G., and Villalon, E. (2003). Infection of Sphyrion laevigatum (Copepoda: Sphyriidae) on Genypterus blacodes (Pisces: Opidiidae) from the Falkland Islands, South Atlantic. Journal of Parasitology.89: 242-244.
Brickle, P., Laptikhovsky, V., Pompert, J. and Bishop, A. (2003). Variations in feeding habits with size and the dietary overlap between three abundant rajid species on the Falkland Islands’ shelf. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 83: 1119-1125.
Brickle, P., and Laptikhovski, V. (2002) New records of deep-sea fishes from around the Falkland Islands. Journal of Fish Biology. 60. 492-494.
Brickle, P., Pompert, J., and Poulding, D. 2002. The Occurrence of Otodistomum plunketi Fyfe, 1953 (Digenea: Azygiidae) in Rays (Chondrichthyes: Rajidae) Around the Falkland Islands. Comparative Parasitology 69(1) 86-89.
Arkhipkin, A., Brickle, P., Laptihovsky, V., Butcher, L., Jones, E., Potter, M. and Poulding, D. (2001). Variation in the diet of the red cod, Salitota australis (Pisces: Moridae), with size and season at the Falkland Islands (south-west Atlantic). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 81(6). 1035-1040.
Brickle, P., Kalavati, C., and MacKenzie, K. (2001) Two new species of myxozoan parasites (Myxosporea: Bivalvulida) from toothfish Dissostichus eleginoides Smitt, 1898 (Pisces: Nototheniidae). ACTA Parasitologica. 46(4). 250-253.
Brickle, P., Olson, P. D., Littlewood, D. T. J., Bishop, A., and Arkhipkin, A. (2001) Parasites of Loligo gahi from waters off the Falkland Islands with a phyllogenetically based identification of their cestode larvae. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 79(12). 2297-2302.