223 returned results for 'ICES'

  • New data portal on deep-water Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems in the North Atlantic released

    Knowing where the various deepwater habitats and species exist is important for conservation and management. Over the last 5 years, Marine Scotland scientist Dr Francis Neat has been working with the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) – a global organisation that develops science and advice to support the sustainable use of…

    23rd February 2016

  • New report published by the CORPORATES Project

    This new report provides the background, the process and the outcomes of an interdisciplinary project entitled “The Cooperative Participatory Evaluation of Renewable Technologies on Ecosystem Services (CORPORATES)”, funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). The report can be found at http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2016/02/4961 The CORPORATES project involved colleagues from the MarCRF collaborators Marine Scotland Science…

    5th February 2016

  • MRV Scotia: Survey 0216S Programme

    Duration: 23 January – 12 February 2016 Fishing Gear: GOV Trawl (BT 137) with ground gear A & B; MIK Net (Round Frame with IK depressor); and MIKeyM net (attached to the MIK net on selected stations). Objective: To complete an internationally coordinated demersal trawling survey in the North Sea in ICES area IV. To…

    20th January 2016

  • MRV Scotia: Survey 1715S Programme

    Duration: 18 November – 8 December 2015 Fishing Gear: GOV Trawl (BT137 – Strengthened) and ground gear D. Objectives: To participate in the ICES co-ordinated western division demersal trawling survey; To obtain temperature and salinity data profiles at each trawling position; and To collect additional biological data in connection with the EU data collection framework…

    24th November 2015

  • MRV Alba na Mara: Survey 1715A Programme

    Duration: 10-23 November 2015 Gear: Surface and subsurface PAM moorings Objectives: To retrieve a series of moorings comprising dhan buoys (eight surface marked moorings) or acoustic release systems (22 subsurface moorings) and the acoustic recording devices attached to them (30 C-POD and ten SM2M/SM3M) as part of the east coast marine mammal monitoring programme (see…

    6th November 2015

  • Journal article on “Evaluating the effectiveness of a seasonal spawning area closure” published

    A study into measures introduced over a decade ago to protect spawning cod in the Firth of Clyde by researchers from the University of Glasgow and Marine Scotland Science has found no evidence that it had led to local recovery of cod numbers by 2010. The study, published in the ICES Journal of Marine Science,…

    17th August 2015

  • MRV Alba na Mara: survey 1315A programme

    Duration: 1-10 September 2015 Equipment: 2 x BT 201 Prawn net – One rigged with separator panel and two 80mm codends – one rigged with a single live capture codend Grid with separator bar 80mm codend with SMP Trawl doors Sweeps, bridles, backstrops and pennants Spare netting and twine PSL5000 light unit x 2 2 x…

    6th August 2015

  • Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions – the ocean’s problem

    We’ve all seen the banner headlines about CO2 concentrations increasing in the atmosphere, but did you know this increase is also impacting our seas and its inhabitants too? There is a natural exchange of CO2 between the surface layers of the ocean and the atmosphere. The chemistry of seawater is complex, an imbalance as a result of…

    22nd July 2015

  • Biologist’s update from Shieldaig: June 2015

    Welcome back to Shieldaig, where spring has sprung and we are surrounded by new life. The run of sea trout smolts is now at an end and we have escorted nearly 650 fish on their way to the sea. A number of these have already returned to the river and some were found to have…

    21st July 2015

  • Marine Scotland welcomes European Marine Biological Resource Centre to Edinburgh

    Marine Scotland hosted the latest meeting of the European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC) Implementation Board at its offices in Edinburgh on 13th July. EMBRC, based in Paris, is the latest European Resource Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) being developed and EMBRC will support both fundamental and applied research based on marine bioresources and marine ecosystems. In particular,…

    14th July 2015