Stock Enhancement Research Coordinator
Core Program
Sustainable Seafood
Research Program
Fish Ecology & Stock-Enhancement Modeling
Education
B.Sc., Marine Science, National University of Ireland Galway
Ph.D., Zoology, National University of Ireland Galway
Ruairi graduated from the National University of Ireland Galway with a B.Sc. in Marine Science and a Ph.D. in Zoology. He has been involved in a variety fisheries research projects on freshwater and marine species in Europe and North America. Ruairi joined Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute in 2015 as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and has been the Stock Enhancement Research Coordinator since 2019. He works primarily on the Institute’s white seabass and California halibut programs.
Publications
Shane M, MacNamara R, Bellquist L, Drawbridge M (2025) Otolith ageing of white seabass (Atractoscion nobilis): known-age validation, reader performance and sex-specific growth patterns. Journal of Fish Biology https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70016
Shane M, MacNamara R, Bellquist L, Drawbridge M (2025) Otolith ageing of white seabass (Atractoscion nobilis): known-age validation, reader performance and sex-specific growth patterns. Journal of Fish Biology https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70016
MacNamara R, Mankiewicz JL, Salger SA, Stuart K, Borski RJ, Godwin J & Drawbridge M (2024) Temperature regulates sex determination and growth in the paralichthid flatfish California halibut. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology 341: 811-821
MacNamara R, Stuart K & Drawbridge M (2023) Reduction of malpigmentation rates in intensive larviculture of California halibut (Paralichthys californicus). Aquaculture 570: 739419
MacNamara R, Camp E, Shane M, Lorenzen K & Drawbridge M (2022) Optimizing stock enhancement through modeling: a sex-specific application with California halibut Paralichthys californicus. Fisheries Research 252: 106341
MacNamara R, Shane M & Drawbridge M (2022) Understanding long-term movement patterns of hatchery-reared white seabass. Environmental Biology of Fishes 105: 1797–1808