Marine
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Faroe fisheries agreement delivers for Scotland’s fishing industry for 2025
18th March 2025 by Marine Directorate Communications
Bilateral fisheries negotiations with the Faroe Islands, one of Scotland’s closest fishing neighbours, have now concluded for 2025. These agreements set out exchanges of fishing opportunities of quotas and access. The UK-Faroe agreement sets out quota exchanges which will allow UK vessels to fish key species in Faroese waters. This includes quotas for cod,…
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UK, Norway and Faroe Islands mackerel agreements
20th June 2024 by Marine Directorate Communications
The UK has, this week, signed agreements with Norway and Faroe setting out arrangements on mackerel for 2024 onwards.
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Water Sampling for Long-Term Monitoring – An Update 09/10/18
16th October 2018 by Marine Directorate Communications
Scotia left harbour at 09:00 on Friday 5 October. Our first objective was to deploy the Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) profiler at 18 stations along a line at 57° N going west from the Scottish East Coast to 2°E. Along with salinity (conductivity) and temperature, we measured dissolved oxygen, turbidity and fluorescence. We also…