219 returned results for 'ICES'

  • Scottish Apprenticeship Week – Mark Rennie

    Scottish Apprenticeship Week is underway and this year’s theme is ‘talent without limits’. We hear from Mark Rennie, Marine Scotland Science, who successfully completed the Modern Apprenticeship programme and has who has been nominated for Engineering Apprentice of the Year. “I applied for a mechanical engineering apprenticeship with the Scottish Government after being made redundant….

    3rd March 2020

  • Demersal Trawling in ICES Area IVb

    MFV Genesis BF505 Programme Survey: 1219H Programme Duration: 28 April – 07 May 2019 Fishing Gear: Anglerfish Trawl BT 195 Objectives: Undertake a nationally co-ordinated demersal trawling survey of Anglerfish (Lophius piscatorius and Lophius budegassa) at Rockall, ICES area IVb. Record and map distributions of Megrim (Lepidorhombus wiffiagonis), Four-Spot Megrim (Lepidorhombus boscii), Cod (Gadus morhua),…

    9th May 2019

  • Fish Samples and Mackerel Eggs – ICES Triennial Survey

    MFV Altaire Programme Survey: 0219H Duration: 16-29 April 2019 Fishing/Sampling Gear: Gulf VII Plankton Sampler Objectives: Carry out mackerel egg survey (ICES Triennial Survey) on the western shelf and slope in the area from 55o N to 60o N (see Figure 1 below). Collect fish samples, by trawling, for atresia and fecundity analysis back at…

    26th April 2019

  • Trawling for ICES in the north and west of Scotland

    Duration: 15 February – 7 March 2018 Fishing Gear: GOV Trawl (BT 137) fitted with ground gear D. Objectives: Demersal trawling survey of the grounds off the north and west of Scotland in ICES Subarea VIa. To obtain temperature and salinity data from the surface and seabed at each trawling station. Collect additional biological data…

    16th February 2018

  • Iambic Pentameter Meets the ICES North Sea Lemon Sole Benchmark

    Last year we introduced you to our Sea Fisheries Programme Manager, Dr Coby Needle. When he isn’t dealing with fish stock and assessment, or even sometimes when he is, he also writes. So here, in something a little different, we introduce you to the work of the ICES Benchmark Workshop on North Sea Stocks in poetry. Attend,…

    14th February 2018

  • New report published about bird and mammal displacement with wave and tidal energy devices

    As the offshore marine renewables industry grows, understanding the way that marine species may respond to the installation and operation of wave and tidal energy devices is of particular importance. Recently, extensive research and effort has gone into furthering our understanding of potential implications of deploying these devices into Scottish waters. However, several questions still…

    13th June 2017

  • MarCRF at ICES

    MarCRF was well represented at the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) Annual Science Conference 2016, this week in Riga, Latvia. Research Fellow Jacqui Tweddle (pictured right) presented in the “What is a good pelagic habitat?” session, talking about “Phytoplankton: supporting a good pelagic habitat”, which was well received and started a…

    28th September 2016

  • Press release – Cornelius Hammer elected new ICES president at Council meeting

    The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has elected Dr. Cornelius Hammer as its new President for a three-year term. Hammer, Deputy President of the Thünen Institute in Germany and until recently the director of the Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries in Rostock, Germany, was previously ICES First Vice-President and German Delegate…

    27th October 2015

  • Scottish findings presented at ICES Annual Science Conference 2015

    Bringing the ecosystem services concept into marine management decisions – Scottish findings presented at ICES Annual Science Conference 2015 The ICES Annual Science Conference 2015 took place in Copenhagen, Denmark from 21-25 September. The biggest marine science conference in the Northern Atlantic welcomed around 700 international scientists, policy- and decision- makers, those who work with marine…

    13th October 2015

  • ICES Science Fund success for MSS researcher

    In our blog in May, we featured an article about the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) announcing seven awards for its 2015 ICES Science Fund Call. Pablo Leon Diaz of the Phytoplankton Ecology Group in Marine Scotland Science was one of the winners with his proposal in collaboration with the University of…

    22nd July 2015