The Loch Lomond Fisheries Trust is governed currently by a Board of 6 Directors, chaired by Dr Hannele Honkanen. With three members of staff.
Jo joined the Trust in Autumn 2025. Since completing her PhD in behavioural ecology in 2000 at Edinburgh University, she has gained experience working as an aquatic biologist in the academic, public, private and third sectors. In recent years, she has specialised in inland fisheries science with a particular interest in wild salmonid conservation. Previous projects she has worked on include a trophic study of Lough Melvin, an Irish lough with three distinct sub species of brown trout, each occupying different feeding niches, and a full catchment eel and smolt passage solution project in a heavily industrialised river.
She spent a long time working on rivers in the neighbouring Forth catchment, but now she is looking forward to getting her hands dirty in Loch Lomond.
Isla recently joined the trust over the summer as a seasonal assistant. At University, Isla studied Marine and Freshwater Biology in Glasgow. During this time, she was involved in Field courses in Scotland and Egypt. With an interest in freshwater and marine fish, her honours project focused on sea lice effects on Sea Trout in Scotland and Norway. After graduating in 2025, she is excited to get involved in the projects at the trust
During her free time, she enjoys playing basketball, swimming and going to concerts.
Jen has both a BSc and M.Res in wildlife ecology, marine biology and conservation, culminating in a Masters thesis addressing trends and movements of rare and elusive stingrays of Mozambique using long-term citizen science observational data from a marine research organisation in Tofo Mozambique. Jen went on to run that marine research organisation in Mozambique from 2019 through to 2023, directing and supervising projects ranging from photo-identification of whale sharks, documentation of rare cetacean stranding events, through to developing the first long-life remote underwater camera to observe some of the Indian Ocean’s rarest and most little-understood wildlife, such as the smalleye stingray and bowmouth guitarfish. Long term data collection on reef fish biomass and biodiversity was among the most valuable information resources, providing vital information for engagement with local communities and collaboration with governing bodies, delivering accessible science to make management decisions to ensure the healthy reef fish population for local sustenance but also a healthy ecosystem to sustain a growing tourism sector.
Jen has moved back to the UK in January 2024 and is completing her Ph.D. answering key dietary and movement questions by biochemical and machine learning techniques at the University of Glasgow. Although a lot of Jen’s work has involved the subtropical oceans, her expertise in project development, passion for nature and practical fieldwork and translation of sound science into practical conservation management by engaging with the general public, landowners through to policy makers will be valuable in this role as biologist in the Loch Lomond Fisheries Trust.
The Loch Lomond Fisheries Trust is governed currently by a Board of 5 Directors, chaired by Dr Hannele Honkanen. The directors have wide ranging expertise in their particular fields and we have representation from land owner, scientific and angling interests. The list of current directors is as follows:
Hannele is a fish biologist who currently works as a Research Support Manager at the University of Glasgow’s field station Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment (SCENE). She has a PhD in salmonid ecology and has delivered research projects collaborating with fisheries trusts, universities, companies and governmental organisations since 2013.
Jessica Rodger is the theme leader for Biodiversity and Fish Communites at the Atlantic Salmon Trust, as well as, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Glasgow. Jessica has a PhD in salmonid ecology and has previously worked for a fisheries trust and actively collaborates with fisheries trusts in her current role.
Fergus Colquhoun is an advocate at the Scots Bar, practising in planning and environmental law. His recent cases include Open Seas Trust v Scottish Ministers (2024 SC 338), which concerned commercial fishing licences, and the judicial reviews of the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields (in Shetland and the North Sea, respectively). Among other matters, he has advised clients on the legal and environmental impacts of fish farms. Fergus is a committee member of the Scottish Planning, Local Government, and Environmental Law Bar Group (SPLGELBG), and regularly speaks at seminars on issues of planning and environmental law.
Jamie Graham is Managing Director of Montrose Estates, a riparian owner on the East side of Loch Lomond. Jamie runs enterprises including farming and woodland and in his spare time enjoys wetting a fishing line.
John Bell is a fully qualified Fly Fishing Instructor and fishing Guide in and around Loch Lomond.