Marine
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Marine Analytical Unit weekly update – 5 February 2014
5th February 2014 by Marine Scotland Communications
This week’s update from the Marine Analytical Unit has been published, featuring a guest article reporting on ‘The short-term impacts of implementing catch quotas and a discard ban on English North Sea otter trawlers’ Read the full update Related Links All previous Marine Analytical Unit updates
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Marine Analytical Unit weekly update – 31 January 2014
31st January 2014 by Marine Scotland Communications
This week’s update from the Marine Analytical Unit has been published, featuring a guest article reporting on ‘The Economic Valuation of Marine Recreation Activity’ Read the full update Related Links All previous Marine Analytical Unit updates
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Environmental Interactions of Marine Renewable devices Conference, Stornoway – April 2014
30th January 2014 by Paul Stainer
“Following the Call for Abstracts on 13th January, the Environmental Interactions of Marine Renewables devices (EIMR) conference, a Marine Scotland Partnership Event within Homecoming Scotland 2014, will take place in Stornoway in the last week of April. The main conference is on the Wednesday and Thursday and will include mix of papers on interactions with...
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Marine Analytical Unit weekly update – 22 January 2014
23rd January 2014 by Marine Scotland Communications
This week’s update from the Marine Analytical Unit has been published, featuring a guest article reporting on the ‘Social Impacts of Marine Activities’ Read the full update Related Links All previous Marine Analytical Unit updates
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Marine Atlas wins in New York
21st January 2014 by Marine Scotland Communications
The e-book version of Scotland’s Marine Atlas, created on behalf of Marine Scotland by APS Group Scotland, has won an award at the prestigious Digital Book Awards in New York. At a ceremony hosted by LeVar Burton, actor and co-founder of Reading Rainbow (an educational app for children), the Atlas beat the competition to win the category of...
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Integrated coastal-zone risk management – ICES Cooperative Research Report
16th January 2014 by Andronikos Kafas
The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea science plan has emphasised the importance of coastal zone management and marine planning. In recognition of this, a Theme Session was held at the Annual Science Conference in Nantes in 2010. Papers from that Session have been combined into Cooperative Research Report number 320, edited by...
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News from MSI: Seal Usage Maps Update
16th January 2014 by Andronikos Kafas
A technical problem was found with the data in the seal usage maps in August 2013 and since then the maps have been unavailable through MSi. These maps have now been updated and the version that is available has had this error corrected. If you have previously downloaded the seal maps, please now update your...
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Marine Analytical Unit weekly update – 15 January 2014
16th January 2014 by Marine Scotland Communications
This week’s update from the Marine Analytical Unit has been published, featuring a guest article reporting on the ‘Implications of a Discard Ban in Multispecies Quota Fisheries’ Read the full update Related Links All previous Marine Analytical Unit updates
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Review of wild fisheries management announced
15th January 2014 by Marine Scotland Communications
Scotland’s management of salmon and freshwater fisheries must be ‘robust, sustainable and fit for purpose in the 21st century’, First Minister Alex Salmond has said. The Scottish Government has now asked outgoing Scottish Natural Heritage Chairman Andrew Thin to chair an independent review of wild fisheries management in Scotland. The aims of the review are...
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Environmental Interactions of Marine Renewables: call for abstracts
13th January 2014 by Marine Scotland Communications
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...