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MASTS Deep Sea Collaboration Project (Survey 0915S) – last update 27th July 2015
27th July 2015 by Marine Scotland Communications
Here’s the last update from the Deep Sea Survey 0915S: Day 9 We continue to work away. The baited lander is retrieved for the last time and the pictures are downloaded successfully. Rather than risk further misfires with the maxicorer we switch gear to the less sophisticated, but more reliable Van Veen grab to get...
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MASTS Deep Sea Collaboration Project (Survey 0915S) – update 24 July 2015
24th July 2015 by Marine Scotland Communications
The latest update of the MRV Scotia Survey 0915S… Day 4. After yesterday’s tantalising glimpses of what might have been the cold seep, Jim Drewery, leads the watch in which we begin to deploy the more conventional seabed sampling gear. The first samples suggest we are indeed in the right area. Graham Oliver who did...
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Get interactive with Wild Fisheries Reform
23rd July 2015 by Marine Scotland Communications
The consultation on the proposed conservation measures to introduce a licensing system for the killing of any wild salmon in Scotland together with associated carcass tagging regulations and baits and lures regulations closed on 30 April. The proposed measures would apply solely to salmon and not to sea trout. Over 600 replies to the consultation were received....
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It’s a Super Saturday with Marine Scotland Science
23rd July 2015 by Marine Scotland Communications
Earlier in July, Marine Scotland Science STEM Ambassador, Jane Mills, took part in Fraserburgh’s Super Saturday – Land and Sea event. The Super Saturdays run between May and December and have a different theme every month. With the help of local skippers who have provided her with fish, Jane hosted a fresh fish counter where people could find...
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ICES Science Fund success for MSS researcher
22nd July 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
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...
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Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions – the ocean’s problem
22nd July 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
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...
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MASTS Deep Sea Collaboration Project (Survey 0915S) – update 21 July 2015
21st July 2015 by Marine Scotland Communications
Our update of the Deep Sea survey continues….. Day 2 Steaming west, passed the Butt of Lewis, the Flannen Isles, St Kilda, off the continental slope and into the Rockall Trough. The winds are easing and the sea state is improving all the time. Between construction of the multicore and final preparation of the lander,a sperm whale...
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Biologist’s update from Shieldaig: June 2015
21st July 2015 by Marine Scotland Communications
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...
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ICES publishes advice on fishing opportunities in 2016
20th July 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
Last week, the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) issued advice on fishing opportunities in 2016 for southern horse mackerel, anchovy, and sardine stocks in the Northeast Atlantic. ICES has now issued advice for more than 150 stocks this year. Together with this advice release, ICES has published a supplementary document that...
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MASTS Deep Sea Collaboration Project (Survey 0915S) – update 17 July 2015
17th July 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
Scotia left Aberdeen harbour this morning after two days of hectic mobilisation. On Tuesday morning Scotia’s deck resembled some kind of sub-sea jumble sale, but the scientists and Scotia’s crew worked hard to gradually transform it into what now looks more like a marine science expo. The most spectacular is a seabed lander that Oceanlab...
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