Marine

  • The Buckland Foundation lecture – 2 November 2016

    12th October 2016 by

    Buckland Lecture

    The Buckland Foundation: How smart are fish? Integrating what scientists and fishers know. 2nd November 2016, Institute of Zoology, Outer Circle, Regent’s Park, London, NW1 4RY from 18:00 to 2100 The talks in this event will challenge the commonly-held view of fish as robot-like animals with no intelligence and a 30 second memory, which often...

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  • In Deep at the UN – the verdict

    5th August 2016 by

    At the end of July, we featured a blog about Marine Scotland scientist, Dr Francis Neat, and his upcoming visit to the United Nations to discuss deep-sea fishing regulations and conservation in the high seas. The intrepid traveller has now returned and tells us how it was for him: “This week the UN General Assembly held...

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  • In deep at the United Nations

    28th July 2016 by

    Next week, Marine Scotland scientist Dr Francis Neat (pictured right) will join the EU delegation to the UN in New York to discuss deep-sea fishing regulations and conservation in the high seas. It’s a huge honour and as Francis explains “we rarely think too much about that part of the ocean that is beyond our national jurisdiction...

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  • MRV Scotia: Survey 1116S Programme

    27th July 2016 by

    Duration: 5-25 August 2016 Gear: GOV Trawl (BT 137) with ground gear A & B Objectives: To complete an internationally coordinated demersal trawling survey in the North Sea in ICES area IV and continue an IBTS tow duration experiment. To obtain temperature and salinity data from the surface and seabed at each trawling station using...

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  • Marine Analytical Unit monthly update – June 2016

    30th June 2016 by

    This month’s update from the Marine Analytical Unit has been published, featuring an article reporting on the Fish Price Index. Read the full update

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  • Promoting Best Practice for Inshore Fisheries

    11th May 2016 by

    Gear conflict is a longstanding and complex problem in Scottish inshore waters. While the majority of fishermen from competing sectors co-operate well on a day to day basis, incidents of gear conflict have existed for decades without any decisive action taken by government. When gear conflict occurs it is very difficult for an enforcement body...

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  • Marine Analytical Unit monthly update – March and April 2016

    9th May 2016 by

    This bumper blog has the March and April updates from the Marine Scotland Marine Analytical Unit and features articles reporting on the Scottish Marine Recreation & Tourism Survey (March) and the Fish Price Index (April). Read the full March update Read the full April update

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  • New report on the swimming depth of sea trout published

    22nd March 2016 by

    The potential risk which marine renewable developments pose to animals at sea, including fish, is partly dependent on their swimming depth. For example, fish species which predominantly occupy space close to the surface will be at less risk from bottom-mounted tidal turbines than fish species that have a bentho-pelagic lifestyle. The sea trout is an...

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  • Celebrating 50 years of the Girnock Burn Fish trap

    21st March 2016 by

    2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the Girnock Burn fish trap on the River Dee in Aberdeenshire. The Girnock Burn fish trap is one of only three long-term fish population monitoring facilities in Scotland where detailed information on adult and emigrant numbers, sizes and ages of Atlantic salmon is obtained by Marine Scotland Science (MSS)...

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  • Simple guide to the MPA management measures

    9th February 2016 by

    Thirty Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) were designated in Scotland’s seas on 24 July 2014, of which 17 fall under the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010 in inshore waters. In line with EU legislation, suitable management measures must be implemented at each site to conserve the protected features and the 17 inshore MPAs and 22 Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) were...

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