Company Overview

Homarus Ltd are specialist technical consultants in fisheries and aim to provide high quality, impartial advice and practical solutions at good value to its clients. 

The company has particular strength and experience in the assessment of the impact of marine accidents and other external factors on fisheries and aquaculture. Company personnel have worked continually on damage assessment projects for 18 years including BRAER,  SEA EMPRESS and PRESTIGE, SOLAR 1 and HEBEI SPIRIT oil spills and other high profile cases such as Factortame (Spanish fleet legislation losses) and the Lincshore scheme ( a major UK coastal defence project).  They have established a reputation for being at the forefront of loss assessment methodology and advising on fisheries related compensation issues.   Please scroll this page to continue overview, or follow links at left for more detailed description of services and experience.

Impacts on which advice is provided falls into the following categories:

• Physical impacts: shipping collisions, coastal and offshore engineering interference with fishing vessels, fish farms, fish and shellfishing grounds
• Pollution impacts: pollution of fishing grounds, fish and shellfish farms, sensitive habitats
• Temperature and contamination impacts to fisheries cargo, usually bulk frozen, sometimes containerised

The company has its roots in shellfish production and also provides wider advice on the fisheries sector and undertakes

• fishing industry studies
• fisheries socio-economic studies
• market analysis for fisheries products
• feasibility studies
• corporate analysis / due diligence

For more details on fisheries sector studies and analysis click here.

Homarus was founded in 2001 by Patrick Franklin, a marine biologist with 28 years experience in the fisheries sector.  The company is supported by a group of highly respected technical specialists covering the fields of fishing methods and management, marine environment, fisheries economics, aquaculture and fish product quality.  Please see company personnel for more details.

The company runs an office in Beaulieu, Hampshire, UK, (please see contacts).  It supports projects and staff, has a large bank of reference material, subscribes to international market databases for fish products and maintains a wide network of collaborative experts and fishing  industry contacts around the world.