Marine
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MRV Alba na Mara: Survey 0415A Programme
27th March 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
Duration: 29 March – 17 April 2015 Fishing Gear: Scallop dredges Objectives: To carry out a survey of scallop stocks on the West Coast; To assess shell damage on all scallops caught; To collect information on by-catch of other commercial fish and shellfish species; To identify and quantify numbers of starfish species in all dredge...
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Marine & Fisheries News from other Organisations
27th March 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
A new paper featuring contributions from Plymouth Marine Laboratory Director of Science Professor Manuel Barange outlines why fish deserve more attention in food policies in our quest to meet the nutritional needs of a growing global population. Fish already make a major contribution to the human food supply, providing more than 4.5 billion consumers with...
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Go4SET Regional Finals – An Assessor’s Experience
26th March 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
By John Dunn On the 11th of February I acted as an assessor in the regional finals of the Go4SET competition at Elphinstone Hall, King’s College, Aberdeen University. Teams from all over Grampian had been working away for ten weeks on a series of projects, and our role as assessors was to choose a suitable...
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MRV Scotia: Survey 0415A – Cruise Programme
25th March 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
Duration: 7 – 20 April 2015 Gear: Jackson BT 195 monkfish bottom trawl; 400mm x 45.7m Rockhopper ground gear with tickler chain; 2 x sets of Morgere Ovalfoil OF12 1700 Kg trawl doors; and Net sensors; standard Scanmar sensors, bottom contact sensor and depth / temperature logger (DST). Objective: To undertake a nationally co-ordinated demersal...
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Award winning engagement on Marine Protected Areas
23rd March 2015 by Marine Scotland Communications
Marine Scotland’s Marine Environment Branch recently won the engagement award for the Scottish Public Service Awards for their work on Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). Over the last 4 years, 30 Scottish Marine Protected Areas or MPAs have been designated – 17 MPAs in Scottish territorial waters and 13 MPAs in offshore waters. This has involved...
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Partial Solar Eclipse in Aberdeen
20th March 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
Some wonderful shots of this morning’s eclipse from our in-house Communications team members, Keith Mutch and Mhairi Sinclair. Taken from the Balnagask Golf Club near the Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen. Come on over to our Flickr site to few some more. © Crown copyright.
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ICES recommends increased consideration of ecosystem functioning in its review of the MSFD
20th March 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has reviewed three descriptors of Good Environmental Status (GES) of the European Union’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). The review suggests revisions to the criteria of the descriptors, highlighting the need for the MSFD to consider how humans impact the functioning of the ecosystem. It...
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Life’s a (clean) beach!
19th March 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has launched the results of their Great British Beach Clean, which took place from 19th – 22nd September 2014. A record number of more than 5,300 volunteers took part, across more than 300 events nationally and the results can be downloaded from the MCS website. If you would like to take...
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Report of Fishing Industry Science Alliance (FISA) Project: Effects of Codend Mesh Size and Twine Number on Nephrops Selectivity
18th March 2015 by Marine Directorate Communications
Experimental fishing trials carried out on the West Coast have shown that the selectivity of Nephrops improves as the mesh size increases from 80 to 100 and to 120 mm. Similarly, more juvenile whiting and haddock also escape as the mesh size increases. The results provide more information on the selectivity of Nephrops in towed fishing...
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Update: pilot Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters Marine Spatial Plan
16th March 2015 by Marine Scotland Communications
The pre-consultation versions of the pilot Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters Marine Spatial Plan, the Sustainability Appraisal, the Socio-Economic Baseline Review and the Regional Locational Guidance are due to be sent to Orkney Islands Council and Highland Council for consideration prior to a formal public consultation beginning in June 2015. The documents will be available on the council...
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