Marine Directorate Communications
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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…
MRV Alba na Mara; Survey 1014A – Update
20th June 2014
The East Coast Scallop Survey is going well so far as the weather has been very good and is allowing us to make excellent progress through the stations. As I write this over 38 hauls have been completed with all scallops measured, aged and damage indexed. We got this large lobster in the bycatch and…
MRV Alba na Mara; Survey 1014A – East Coast Scallop Survey 2014
19th June 2014
The East Coast Scallop Survey for 2014 is well underway, having set sail on the 6th of June. Overview of survey: Scallop dredge hauls will be made at sites used on previous surveys and other known commercial grounds as shown below. Hauls will be of 30 minutes duration. From each haul, all of the scallops…
MRV Scotia; Survey 0714S – Nephrops Television Survey Update
17th June 2014
It’s been over a week since we left Aberdeen on a grey, foggy day. Normally, at this time of year, these conditions would not be warmly welcomed. However a) we sailed from Aberdeen so didn’t expect much better, and b) these features meant there would be very little wind, which is ideal for the annual…
Marine & Fisheries News from other organisations
17th June 2014
MSCC News: 17 June 2014 Natural England has commissioned new research which will be used to set the standard for assessing the potential impacts of marine operations on mobile marine species. Read the article Brought to you by Plymouth Marine Laboratory (www.pml.ac.uk) on behalf of the UK Marine Science Coordination Committee. For more information about…
MRV Scotia; Survey 0714S – Nephrops Television Survey
13th June 2014
The MRV Scotia began her annual North Sea and West coast Nephrops Television Survey last week. The main areas in which the survey will take place are shown in the figure below. A combination of two approaches will be used to derive the survey positions. The majority of stations will be generated by employing the…
Marine & Fisheries News from other organisations
12th June 2014
MSCC News: 12 June 2014 Three leading environmental scientists from the UK have been invited to talk about the state of the world’s oceans to an audience including US Secretary of State John Kerry at an ocean summit in Washington. They are amongst less than thirty scientists from around the world who will be providing…