Marine

  • Marine Analytical Unit weekly update – 19 February 2014

    19th February 2014 by

    This week’s update from the Marine Analytical Unit has been published, featuring a guest article reporting on ‘The transformation of Scottish fisheries: Sustainable interdependence from ‘net to plate’. Read the full update Related Links All previous Marine Analytical Unit updates

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  • FLOWW Best Practice Guidance for Offshore Renewables Developments

    19th February 2014 by

    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...

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  • Sea Trout Swimming Depth Contract

    19th February 2014 by

    © aboutscotland.com Swimming depth of fish is an important element in determining the potential for interaction of fish with various aspects of marine renewables developments, for example the risk of collision with tidal turbines. However,  although sea trout support important fisheries and may occur in many marine renewables development areas, there is limited information available...

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  • Coastal Futures 2014

    19th February 2014 by

    Mike Robertson attended the annual Coastal Futures meeting in London on the 22nd and 23rd January 2014 at SOAS, University of London. MSS was also represented by Clare Greathead and Francis Neat who additionally gave a talk on the ecology of Rockall. This conference sets out to bring together different sectors from within the UK...

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  • Marine Analytical Unit weekly update – 12 February 2014

    13th February 2014 by

    This week’s update from the Marine Analytical Unit has been published, featuring a guest article reporting on ‘Public Perception of the Marine Environment’ Read the full update Related Links All previous Marine Analytical Unit updates

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  • Marine Analytical Unit weekly update – 5 February 2014

    5th February 2014 by

    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

    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

    “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

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    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

    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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