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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…
Marine & Fisheries News from other organisations
12th June 2014
MSCC News: 12 June 2014 During the summer months of 2012 a large scale iron fertilisation experiment took place across a patch of sea west of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, in contravention of international agreements. Beginning with 90 tons of iron sulphate in July and followed by 10 tons of iron oxide in August and…
Marine & Fisheries News from other organisations
12th June 2014
MSCC News: 12 June 2014 Deep sea fishes remove and store more than one million tons of CO2 from UK and Irish surface waters every year, according to a new study. This natural carbon capture and storage scheme could store carbon equivalent to £10 million per year in carbon credits. Fish living in deep waters…
Marine & Fisheries News from other organisations
3rd June 2014
Scotland’s Centre of Expertise for Waters (CREW) is pleased to announce a call for expressions of interest in conducting a project with the following title: CRW2014/17: Method to Assess the Role of Catchment Management in Helping to Protect and Improve Drinking Water Quality in a Cost-effective Way. Read the project specification Please note that completed…
Marine & Fisheries News from other organisations
30th May 2014
MSCC News: 29 May 2014 The UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) will continue to act as the focal point of UK energy research following the announcement today of a further £14 million of funding from three research councils EPSRC, NERC and ESRC via the RCUK Energy Programme. Science Minister David Willetts said: “The UK is…