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Supporting the Scottish Marine Protected Area (MPA) project
24th July 2014
This week the Scottish MPA project reached a significant milestone this week with the designation of 30 protected sites throughout Scottish waters. This network is the result of work involving many agencies and organisations. Marine Scotland Science (MSS) has been working hard conducting research, monitoring surveys and providing advice to help support this work. MSS…
Marine & Fisheries News from other organisations
16th July 2014
EcoWatt2050 – maximum marine energy extraction, minimum environmental impact Funding of more than £1 million has been awarded to a Scottish-based project that will help to determine the limits to tidal and wave energy extraction before potential environmental and ecological impacts occur. Read the Article
MRV Scotia; Survey 0814S – Herring Acoustic Survey
16th July 2014
Overview of survey: The MRV Scotia and a chartered pelagic vessel will conduct the Herring Acoustic Survey covering the area shown below. The pelagic vessel will identify fish shoals using the echosounder and fishing operations will be carried out using the multisampler cod end unless large aggregations are seen in the area. Samples of all species…
MRV Alba na Mara; Survey 1214A – Renewable Energy Survey
16th July 2014
Overview of survey: The survey work will involve the deployment of the TV drop frame (shown right) and, where practical, the deployment of a day grab. Some additional bathymetric survey work and trawling may also be undertaken depending on the weather conditions. MRV Alba na Mara will complete a half landing to exchange scientific staff. The…
Marine & Fisheries News from other organisations
16th July 2014
Fishermen scraping the bottom of the barrel in the English Channel Decades of overfishing in the English Channel has resulted in the removal of many top predators from the sea and left fishermen ‘scraping the barrel’ for increasing amounts of shellfish to make up their catch. Sharks, rays, cod, haddock and many other species at…
Marine & Fisheries News from other organisations
9th July 2014
Anti-depressants disrupt fish’s brains Drugs designed to ease the symptoms of mental health problems such as depression, obsessive compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress can have major disruptive effects on aquatic animals’ brains, say scientists. A suite of new research, published in a special issue of the journal Aquatic Toxicology, points to mounting evidence that they…
Marine & Fisheries News from other organisations
8th July 2014
Ministerial Group For Sustainable Aquaculture – Science and Research Strategy Aquaculture currently supplies more than 50% of global demand for fish and shellfish for human consumption. As the industry continues to grow Scotland is ideally placed to exploit this burgeoning market, but what are the barriers to Scottish expansion of this industry and how can…
Marine & Fisheries News from other organisations
4th July 2014
Marine Scotland launches new Youtube channel Marine Scotland has launched a new Youtube channel, featuring videos about its work and of general marine and fisheries interest. View MS YouTube Brought to you by Plymouth Marine Laboratory (www.pml.ac.uk) on behalf of the UK Marine Science Coordination Committee. For more information about the Marine Science Co-ordination Committee,…
Marine & Fisheries News from other organisations
24th June 2014
The following four individuals have been appointed as Non-Executive Members of the Marine Science Co-ordination Committee (MSCC), they will take up their appointments on 1 July 2014: Professor Mike Elliott: Director of the Institute of Estuarine & Coastal Studies and Professor of Estuarine and Coastal Sciences at the University of Hull, UK. Dr Mark James:…
Marine & Fisheries News from other organisations
24th June 2014
MSCC News: 24 June 2014 Environmental change is transforming many parts of the north-east Atlantic seabed, and according to a newly-published paper this will almost certainly get worse in the coming decades. For the first time, the paper’s authors have brought together research from many different areas to give a systematic idea of how a…