Meet the Yorkshire Seal Group team

Matt Barnes - Co-Founder

Yorkshire Seal Group

After a decade of managing SCUBA diving centres around the world and sharing his passion for diving, Mat

Niamh Byrne - Co-Founder

Yorkshire Seal Group

After graduating from the University of Cork with a 1st class honours degree in Zoology, Niamh has continued to pursue her passion for pinnipeds. Her final dissertation saw her dissecting seal scats and looking at recovery rates of fish bones to aid seal diet composition. If that smell didn’t put her off then neither have over 150 smelly seal rescues s