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Bio/consult A/S (Denmark, SME)
has many years of experience within the area of fish and fishery in projects involving among others the Danish counties and municipalities, the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fishery, the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, Danish Harbour Authorities and organizations of fishermen (professional as well as recreational).
Bio/consult AS is a private, independent environmental consultant company established in 1980. The company provides services within a number of biological and environmental disciplines. The company's activities include involvement in large national and international projects, such as the elaboration of EIA’s (Environmental Impact Assessment studies) and the monitoring of the environmental quality in connection to large scale offshore constructions such as the Oresund Link between Copenhagen and Malmoe and off shore wind farms. With regard to donor-funded activities, Bio/consult A/S has participated in or is currently involved in projects in the Estonia, Maldives Islands, Poland, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia. Such projects have added significantly to the company’s overall competence, especially in the fields of joint venture management, project management and quality assessment.
Regarding European activities, the company is currently involved in EU projects concerning new production methods for fish farming (POCEFF, Quality of Life, CRAFT proposal no. Q5CR-1999-72468 - contractual negoziations) and Harmful Algae Blooms initiation and prediction in large European marine waters (HABILE, Sustainable Marine Ecosystems, contract no. EVK3-CT2001-00087). Previously the company has been involved in a PHARE Programme concerning Environmental Information Technology and a LIFE programme concerning Remote Sensing and a DANIDA-funded ENRECA project dealing with harmful algae blooms.
The company staff includes 30 highly skilled and experienced biologists. Totally Bio/consult A/S’s staff constitutes a strong resource base for both implementation and technical back up of international projects. The facilities include a well equipped laboratory and facilities for electronic processing, storing, handling and the dissemination of data.

CV's of leading personnel

Simon B. Leonhard Bio/consult A/S (Project Manager) is Master of Science in biology and has more than 20 years experience in coastal management, including planning and establishment of environmental monitoring, survey and research programmes and environmental impact assessment. The projects of which Mr Leonhard has been project manager include large interdisciplinary control and monitoring programmes as the Swedish and Danish Environmental Authorities’ Control and Monitoring Programme for the fixed Link across Oresund and the monitoring programme in connection with the enlargement of Aarhus Harbour and Grena Harbour. Mr Simon Leonhard has been the project manager on environmental impacts assessment studies in relation to large offshore wind farm projects in Denmark.

John Pedersen has as biologist and statistician more than 20 years’ experience with advanced environmental data processing, especially data from biological field studies. He has designed and developed a number of databases for the handling of environmental data including aspects as handling of samples in field and laboratory, quality assurance and statistical analysis. As the in-house system manager, he is responsible for designing and maintaining Bio/consults’ LAN and WEB-facilities. Also he has several years experience in instrumentation for automatic data capture, planning and purchasing of technical equipment, establishing training programs in environmental and statistical data analysis. As approved environmental expert by the European Union he has worked in international projects both inside and outside the Union.

Kirsten Engell-Sorensen (born 1961) holds a M.Sc. in marine biology and has more than 10 years experience in the field of plankton ecology, fish biology and aquaculture. She has published more than 20 technical reports in Danish and English on fish biology related surveys and projects. She is a representative of a Committee regarded to future Sustainable Aquaculture Politics in Denmark (Minestry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries). Her experience includes project management, project planning, design of breeding facilities and actual breeding of different species of marine fish larvae and juveniles. In the past two years Mrs. Engell-Sorensen has also been involved in EIA (Environmental Impact Assay) fish and fishery studies related to construction of off shore wind farms.