These data products describe the distribution of Essential Fish Habitats (EFH) for fish and shellfish species in Scottish waters. This contributes in developing the evidence base on EFH, which will help the Scottish Government in targeting future...
A html with two interactive maps and descriptive text. The interactive maps show the areas that are considered unsuitable for native oyster restoration due to temperature, silt content of the sediment, depth and current speed for the whole of...
Please note that the data for The Status of Salmon in Scotland has been updated since this version was released. Original downloads are available on request, but we strongly recommend using the most recent version, which can be located at https...
The conservation status of 173 wild Atlantic salmon stocks (rivers or small groups of rivers) is assessed annually within Scotland according to how likely it is their numbers are at sustainable levels as part of the Salmon Conservation...
The Girnock and Baddoch catchments are long-term monitoring sites where the population dynamics of spring salmon have been assessed since 1966 and 1988 respectively. These sites include a pair of fixed traps designed to catch returning adult...
The Girnock Burn is an intensively monitored sub-catchment of the Aberdeenshire River Dee in north-east Scotland covering an area of ca. 31km2. The Scottish Government Marine Directorate, Freshwater Fisheries Laboratory (and its predecessors)...
The National Electrofishing Programme for Scotland (NEPS) provides a national scale statistical survey of Scotland’s salmon rivers (Jackson et al., 2025). The foundation of the programme is a statistical survey design that ensures collection of...
Production and employment statistics for shellfish aquaculture in Scotland. Please note that Marine Scotland will update this dataset annually when new statistics are released. No data previously published will have changed, but additional years...
Underwater sounds have been shown to injure or disturb cetaceans, and around the world, cases have been documented of cetacean mass strandings that have been linked to underwater noise, across many species. The Scottish Government’s Marine...
Wild Atlantic salmon and brown trout are important to the rural economy, biodiversity and cultural heritage of Scotland, and valuable indicators of ecosystem health. However, their populations are in decline across much of their native range....