223 returned results for 'ICES'

  • Marine Analytical Unit weekly update – 9 April 2014

    This week’s update from the Marine Analytical Unit has been published, featuring an article on ‘The Valuation of Marine Ecosystem Services’ Read the full update Related Links All previous Marine Analytical Unit updates

    24th April 2014

  • Marine Analytical Unit weekly update – 19 March 2014

    This week’s update from the Marine Analytical Unit has been published, featuring a guest article reporting on ‘Whitefish prices, 2014: positive early indications’ Read the full update Related Links All previous Marine Analytical Unit updates

    19th March 2014

  • FLOWW Best Practice Guidance for Offshore Renewables Developments

    The Fishing Liaison with Offshore Wind and Wet Renewables Group (FLOWW) was set up in 2002 to foster good relations between the fishing and offshore renewable energy sectors and to encourage co-existence between both industries. FLOWW’s objectives are to enable and facilitate discussion, discuss on matters arising from the interaction of the fishing and offshore…

    19th February 2014

  • Environmental Interactions of Marine Renewables: call for abstracts

    Following the success of the inaugural international EIMR conference in 2012 (Orkney, Scotland), the University of the Highlands and Islands and partners are delighted to announce the second environmental interactions of marine renewables (EIMR2014) conference to be held in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis between 28 April and to 2 May 2014. This meeting will serve…

    13th January 2014

  • £3m joint industry programme to accelerate the deployment of the UK offshore wind programme

    The Carbon Trust’s offshore wind accelerator (OWA) has been commissioned by the leading offshore wind developers in the UK, The Crown Estate, Marine Scotland and Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to form the Offshore Renewables Joint Industry Programme (ORJIP). The programme has been created to reduce the consenting risks for large-scale offshore wind…

    4th December 2013

  • Study on habitat modelling for harbour porpoises in the Moray Firth has been published

    MSS has recently deployed 30 CPoDs on the east coast of Scotland. The aim of this network is to allow us to monitor the bottlenose dolphin population during wind farm construction. Data from the same device have been used in a recently published study by Dr. Kate Brookes, to validate a habitat association model for…

    3rd December 2013

  • Marine Analytical Unit weekly updates

    The Marine Analytical Unit provides a weekly briefing to Ministers reporting on the latest management information about fish landings, fish prices, and uptake of effort and quota. The briefing also includes a short article’reporting on an issue of topical interest, for example new fisheries-related research. In the latest brief (November 13th), there is an guest article…

    26th November 2013

  • SEWeb goes interactive

    Scotland’s Environment website provides a one-stop-shop to help users find and access the extensive range of information and data that is currently spread across multiple organisations and many different web sites. This new web page encourages the user to Get Interactive with different environmental data sets through a range of viewing, analysis and visualisation tools,…

    5th November 2013

  • Shaping the future for the fishing industry

    The Fisheries Secretary Richard Lochhead outlined his vision for the future success of the fishing industry in his speech to the Scottish Fisherman’s Federation (SFF) on 2 October. Speaking at the SFF dinner annual dinner in Edinburgh, Mr Lochhead highlighted five key issues on the horizon which will shape the future direction of the industry….

    7th October 2013

  • £6m boost for Scottish fishing

    Fishermen will be offered help to deal with the current pressures facing the industry through an action plan unveiled today. Prawn and white fish fishermen in Scotland have faced tough conditions in recent years with high fuel prices, export markets under pressure and the EU’s Cod Recovery Plan (CRP) having a detrimental effect. The dramatic…

    25th July 2013