Professor Per Berggren

I am a multi-disciplinary researcher and leader of the Marine MEGAfauna Lab, Newcastle University. I lead large national and international research projects and supervising students at all University levels. I am internationally recognised in my field of marine megafauna conservation biology particularly in my research efforts in data poor developing countries and development of technical low-cost assessment and mitigation methodologies. I serve on expert panels for the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group).

We are currently working on cetacean bycatch reduction programmes using low-cost technologies in South American and East African gillnet fisheries. We are looking to expand this work to bycatch reduction programmes for longliners, by investigating the effects of electrosensory deterrents on elasmobranchs.

January 2023