Marine

  • Refining Estimates of Collision Risk for Harbour Seals and Tidal Turbines

    15th November 2016 by

    Fitted tide times

    As the offshore marine renewables industry grows, understanding the way that marine mammals, interact with these are of particular importance. This is especially true of tidal devices, and one particular concern is the risk of collision between marine wildlife and rotating turbine blades below the sea surface. This is a particular issue for harbour seals...

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  • An Award Winning Partnership

    11th November 2016 by

    Shona Turnbull (Highland Council), Tracy McCollin (Marine Scotland), James Green (Orkney Islands Council) and Kevin Stewart (Minister for Local Government and Housing)

    A working group, consisting of colleagues from Marine Scotland, Orkney Islands Council and the Highland Council, has received an award in the ‘Partnership’ category of the Scottish Awards for Quality in Planning (SAQP). The award recognised the work of the group, in developing the pilot Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters Marine Spatial Plan, and was...

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  • First UK Assessment of Underwater Noise Published by UK Research Partnership

    10th November 2016 by

    subsea sound recorder prior to launch

    The Centre for the Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) has teamed up with Marine Scotland Science and the University of Exeter to analyse underwater noise data from subsea sound recorders located around the UK coast. The results of the Defra-funded study have now been published in an article titled Underwater noise levels in UK...

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  • MeyGen Inauguration Ceremony

    31st October 2016 by

    The extensive area of very strong tidal currents in the Pentland Firth between Orkney and the Scottish mainland has meant there has been a lot of interest in developing tidal stream generation in that area, and several large developments are envisaged. The most advanced is MeyGen project in the Inner Sound, between Stroma and the mainland. The projects is...

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  • MRV Alba na Mara: Survey 2016A Programme

    20th October 2016 by

    MRV Alba na Mara

    Duration: 2 – 13 November 2016 Gear: Prawn trawl BT 201; Deep Vision Camera and lights (supplied by IMRB); Net mounted camera system; Turbidity meter; Scanmar instrumentation; and 600mm Square Mesh Panel (SMP). Objectives: Primary: To obtain Deep Vision footage from a demersal trawl on different ground types and turbidities: typical nephrops grounds (mud), clearer...

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  • Scottish Natural Heritage newsletter – It’s all about… our natural health service

    7th October 2016 by

    Outdoors

    The latest edition of the Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) newsletter is out now, with articles about developing our natural health service, outdoor learning experiences with Education Scotland and more. Further Information Read the newsletter Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH)

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  • Do you use fisheries statistics?

    6th October 2016 by

    How much fish is landed in Scotland every year? How much is it worth? Which species are landed and where? You might not be aware, but the role of Marine Scotland’s Analytical Unit is to provide data on a range of marine and fisheries topics such as this (any others). This data, which is gathered from industry, research and others, is...

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  • A National Marine Centre for Scotland

    4th October 2016 by

    The Scottish Seabird Centre in North Berwick fulfils an important role in helping people to understand the importance of some of Scotland’s most important sea-bird populations. Looking to the future, they are proposing to extend the Centre into a National Marine Centre for Scotland, and Marine Scotland is delighted to be working with them to enable people to...

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  • Get ready, get set….Explorathon!

    26th September 2016 by

    Explorathon 2016 feature image

    For the first time, Marine Scotland will be taking part in Explorathon; an extravaganza of discovery, debate and entertainment to celebrate European Researchers’ Night. This Friday events will take place during the day and night, in around 300 cities across Europe, and we can’t wait to get involved. During the day we will be in...

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  • Cleaning up for the Great British Beach Clean

    23rd September 2016 by

    Last Friday afternoon, three staff from Marine Scotland took to the beach on Greyhope Road to undertake a wee bit of beach cleaning as part of the annual ‘Great British Beach Clean’ event run by the Marine Conservation Society.  Marine Scotland has, of course, been looking after this stretch of beach for the last 18...

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