Adrian Bartlett

• Lead the strategic direction and development of a community-focused organisation promoting youth engagement in the UK fishing and seafood sector.
• Champion initiatives that connect young people with sustainable fishing, marine careers, and local seafood supply chains
• Build partnerships with industry stakeholders, educators, and local authorities to expand opportunities for training and participation
• Oversee programme delivery, including events, workshops, and hands-on learning experiences within coastal communities
• Advocate for the future of the fishing industry by supporting skills development, awareness, and responsible practices among the next generation
• Manage organisational growth, funding opportunities, and stakeholder engagement to ensure long-term impact

• Main Duties supporting the headmaster, staff, other Directors, and governors in the day-to-day running of the School, and to introduce more local seafood into the curriculum

Key Responsibilities and Contributions:

• Supporting the Headteacher, senior leadership team, and governing body in the strategic and day-to-day oversight of the school
• Contributing to governance, ensuring accountability, transparency, and effective decision-making
• Providing input into school development plans, policies, and long-term strategy
• Monitoring school performance, standards, and outcomes for pupils
• Supporting financial oversight and ensuring value for money in resource allocation
• Promoting a safe, inclusive, and supportive learning environment for all pupils and staff
• Acting as a link between the school and the wider community, strengthening engagement and partnerships
• Bringing external industry experience to support real-world learning opportunities
• Supporting initiatives to introduce local seafood, nutrition awareness, and food education into the curriculum
• Attending board meetings, committees, and contributing to discussions on school improvement
• Ensuring compliance with safeguarding, health and safety, and regulatory requirements
• Challenging and supporting senior leadership to drive continuous improvement

As a Director of the Plymouth Fishing and Seafood Association, I actively support and promote the Plymouth fishing industry, with a particular focus on strengthening local identity, market presence, and public engagement.

Key responsibilities and contributions include:

• Supporting the strategic direction of the Association and its work within the local fishing industry
• Developing and supporting the Seafood Plymouth brand – “Choose Local, Go Wild”
• Overseeing brand development, including:
• Clothing and merchandise design
• Visual identity and messaging
• Playing a key role in delivering the Plymouth Seafood Tour, a two-week initiative held in October to encourage the public to dine out and support locally caught seafood
• Hosting and supporting the Plymouth Seafood Festival (Seafest) cookery stage in September, engaging directly with the public and promoting local species and fishermen
• Supporting and organising events, promotions, and campaigns to raise the profile of Plymouth seafood.
• Contributing to social media and digital engagement, helping to promote local seafood and industry activity and communications.
• Supporting virtual marketing initiatives, increasing reach and awareness beyond the local area
• Involvement in the development and promotion of the Plymouth seafood cookery school, helping connect the public with local seafood and fishermen
• Supporting and organising events, promotions, and campaigns to raise the profile of Plymouth seafood
• Acting as a link between fishermen, local businesses, and the public to strengthen the local seafood economy
• Contributing practical industry knowledge to ensure initiatives remain grounded and relevant

This role combines industry knowledge with public engagement, helping promote the value of locally caught seafood while supporting the visibility and sustainability of Plymouth's fishing sector.

Key responsibilities and experience include:

• Overseeing the day-to-day running and management of the business
• Building and maintaining strong working relationships with clients across the fishing and marine industries
• Advising vessel owners and operators on practical and operational issues affecting the fishing sector
• Providing consultancy on marine emissions, decarbonisation, and carbon reduction strategies within both the fishing and wider marine sectors
• Working with clients exploring alternative fuels and technologies, including hydrogen applications for marine engines
• Supporting businesses in understanding and responding to climate and environmental regulations
• Representing client interests and contributing to discussions at industry meetings , workshops, and decarbonisation forums, both online and in person
• Engaging with national and international discussions on marine decarbonisation, contributing practical industry insight to wider conversations
• Bringing real-world fishing experience into technical and policy discussions to ensure solutions are practical and achievable
• Understanding and keeping my clients up to date with the latest marine net-zero targets up to 2050
• Working with various countries' flag safety and emission requirements.

This role allows me to operate across different parts of the sector, combining hands-on industry knowledge with forward-looking approaches to sustainability and emissions reduction.

Through this work, I have developed a strong ability to translate complex regulatory and technical challenges into practical solutions for the fishing and marine industries, while contributing to wider conversations on the future of sustainable marine operations.

• Delivering Seafish Authority Health and Safety and Safety awareness for the fishing industry.

Main duties and responsibilities include.

· Delivering both courses at the highest standard.

· Working with new entrants

· Working with existing crews' skipper and owners.

· Ensuring positive delivery of both the course and the correct delivery.

• Seafood festival organiser of Crabstock Festivals UK, Paignton Harbour Day.
• Cornwall College seafood trainer.
• Nottingham College seafood trainer.
• Advising on UK seafood for professional chefs and hospitality
• Shellfish and fish demos throughout the UK at Different food festivals
• Owner of a pop-up seafood restaurant, Crab Stock & 2 Smoking Lobsters.
• Organising the stalls (craft, food, entertainment and demo stage for the Chefs.
• Completing a risk assessment for the festival site.
• Manage the weekends and ensure any issues are addressed.
• Working with and informing the public about upcoming activities and the weekend/day agenda.
• Management of the pop-up restaurant and ensuring that all rules and regulations are followed, e.g., HACCP, Food Hygiene, proper temperature control, and correct cooking of shellfish and seafood.
• One half of the Crabstock Boys demoing at various food festivals, showcasing UK-caught seafood and aiming to inform the public about where to buy it and how to prepare and cook it.

• Vice Chair (2021 – 2025), Fishing into the Future (FITF)
  Trustee (2018 – 2025)

In my role as Trustee and Vice Chair, I supported the charity's strategic direction and governance, working closely with the CEO, Chair, Executive Committee, and fellow Trustees to ensure the organisation remained aligned with the needs of the fishing industry.

Key responsibilities and contributions included:

• Supporting leadership in delivering the charity's strategic objectives
• Contributing to governance, decision-making, and organisational oversight
• Acting as a link between the fishing industry and the charity to ensure relevance and impact
• Facilitating engagement between fishermen, scientists, and policymakers
• Playing an active role in the Fisheries Resource Education Programme (FREP) courses
• Facilitating sessions and supporting the delivery of training programmes
• Hosting and supporting Science Mixer events, encouraging open dialogue between industry and scientific communities
• Promoting collaboration, knowledge exchange, and trust across different parts of the sector

This role required strong communication, impartiality, and the ability to bring together individuals with differing perspectives to work towards shared outcomes.

This experience has equipped me to work across the sector without bias, bring together differing and often conflicting perspectives, and turn them into practical, trusted solutions that deliver real change.CEO, Chair and the Ex Com and the trustees.

• Overseeing the production of handpicked Crab meat.
• Ensuring that the HACCP is being followed throughout production.
• Ensuring correct temperature control.
• Hygiene control.
• Stock rotation.
• Working within the fishing industry.

• Working for the start-up of a new company in shellfish processing scallops.
• HACCP plan in food hygiene.
• Interviewing new employers.
• Building a customer base by going to the restaurant trade and wholesale.
• Ensuring that processes and procedures are followed.
• Following all health and safety, HACCP and food hygiene rules and regulations.

• Running the shore store in keeping stock for the fishing boats.
• Making up new fishing gear.
• Delivering to the fishing boats anywhere around the UK.
• Relief skipper with the three boats.
• Stock rotation.
• Maintenance for each boat controlling engine and equipment maintenance records.

• Customer sales manager.
• Overseeing live export of shellfish to China
• Meeting and greeting new customers.
• Handpicked crab meat.
• HACCP food hygiene.
• Ensuring all staff keeps to the HACCP.
• Cooking temp control.
• Vehicle maintenance van fleet records.

• Setting up a new Seafood company.
• Working with new customers in the Cotswolds and London.
• Working closely with chefs to advise on what's good to use with live shellfish at different times of the year.
• Advising what's good to use with wet fish.
• Working closely on menu development.
• Fleet maintenance records.
• HACCP controls food hygiene.
• Interviewing employers.
• Bookkeeping and invoicing.
• Receiving orders and making them up.
• Live shellfish stock rotation in our water tanks.
• Maintaining good quality of water for the tanks (plus building the tanks and storeroom).
• Selling shellfish direct to the restaurant trade.

• Working on Various Crabbing boats from 1985, starting as crew and learning on the job, to full shared crew, leading up to skipper on various crab boats, starting in the Crab boxes in the English Channel, over the years, I have fished in all areas of the waters in the UK, with various-sized vessels from under 12m to over 18m
• All relevant qualifications for 16.4 m fishing boats
• Day-to-day running of a fishing boat.
• Safety of the crew and boat.
• Maintenance of the boat each day.
• Dealing with the merchants when landing and pricing.
• Working the expenses out of the day-to-day running of the boat.
• Dealing with different harbours and harbour masters.

• Day-to-day running of a fishing boat.
• Lisa K was a whelk boat fishing in Lyme Bay
• Safety of the crew and boat.
• Maintenance of the boat each day.
• Dealing with the merchants when landing and pricing.
• Working the expenses out of the day-to-day running of the boat.
• Dealing with different harbours and harbour masters.

• Working with profiles customers.
• Monthly meetings insuring good relationship between both parties at the highest standard.
• Working closely with employers (I looked after 120 staff).
• Working with my supervisors making sure all staff adherer to Assignment Instructions (AIs.
• Interviewing new employers, organising my diary.
• Ensuring all paperwork is kept up to date i.e. employers training and profile packs.

• Day-to-day running of a fishing boat.
• Working in the Crab boxes in the English Channel
• Safety of the crew and boat.
• Maintenance of the boat each day.
• Dealing with the merchants when landing and pricing.
• Working the expenses out of the day-to-day running of the boat.
• Dealing with different harbours and harbour masters.

• Worked in assembling cars.
• Understanding the process of building cars.
• Working with employers ensuring the quality of their work and parts.
• Working with logistics part rotation (just in time) to line side.
• Working in groups holding meetings with associates working to improve the working process of putting parts on cars, running the shift to highest standard to ensure the quality of the car (Right first time of the end of the line) dealing with issues that would happen.
• Daily meetings (engineering part changes, RFT scores, Logistics, line speed, agencies new staff, end of line quality, customer feedback, end of shift meeting to relay how each area done)
• Ensuring all paperwork charts, scores, and associate personal details training up to date.
• Disciplining associates with the unions and HR.
• Awarding awards to associates.