Dr Rui Vieira
Senior Fisheries Scientist
Rui is a Senior Fisheries Scientist with over 10 years’ experience in deep sea science.
Rui P. Vieira joined Cefas in 2017 after completing a PhD in Ocean and Earth Sciences at the University of Southampton. He leads science on deep-water fisheries and work relating to conservation and sustainable use of marine fisheries resources. Rui’s main research interests include fisheries ecology, fish biology and drivers of functioning of deep-sea ecosystems.
Rui provides advisory support on assessments and technical measures relating to deep-water fish stocks and ecosystems. He is member of the ICES Working Group on the Biology and Assessment of Deep-sea Fisheries Resources (WGDEEP) and Deep-water Ecology (WGDEC), which he co-chairs since January 2022.
Rui holds an Honorary Lectureship in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia and is also a member of the Council of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles.
Publications:
Selected Publications:
- Besnard et al. (2022) Diet consistency but large-scale isotopic variations in a deep-sea shark: The case of the velvet belly lantern shark, Etmopterus spinax, in the northeastern Atlantic region and Mediterranean Sea. Deep Sea Research I, 182, 103708.
- Howell et al. (2021) A decade to study deep-sea life. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 5, 265–267.
- Vieira RP, Bett BJ, Jones DOB, Durden JM, Morris KJ, Cunha MR, Trueman CT, Ruhl HA. (2020) Deep-sea sponge aggregations (Pheronema carpenteri) in the Porcupine Seabight (NE Atlantic) potentially degraded by demersal fishing. Progress in Oceanography, 183, 102189.
- Saunders R, Lourenço S, Vieira RP, Collins MA, Xavier JC. (2020) Age and growth of Brauer’s lanternfish Gymnoscopelus braueri and rhombic lanternfish Krefftichthys anderssoni (Family Myctophidae) in the Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean. Journal of Fish Biology, 96 (2), 364-377.
- Vieira RP, Trueman CN, Ready L, Kenny A, Pinnegar JK (2019). Deep-water fisheries along the British Isles continental slopes: status, ecosystem effects and future perspectives. Journal of Fish Biology, 94 (6), 981-992.
