The East Coast Marine Mammal Acoustic Study (ECOMMAS) ran from 2013 until 2023. The project’s main aim was to better understand the effects of offshore wind farm construction on marine mammal species off the east coast of Scotland. Cetacean click...
Please Note. This dataset has been updated. We strongly recommend that you use the updated dataset, which can be located at https://doi.org/10.7489/1969-2 Original source material is availble on request, but we recommend using the most up to...
Dataset for Marine Scotland Monitoring Project. Contains positional data and items per km squared sea surface and per cubic metre of seawater. Also contains raw counts of microplastics per sample. Will be updated annually
These datasets provide fishing effort and landings data (tonnage and value) by ICES rectangles (geographic areas).
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...
Marine Directorate established a programme of research to assess the status of freshwater fish, in particular wild Atlantic salmon, from electrofishing data. This included the development of the National Electrofishing Programme for Scotland (...
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...
Please note that the National Electrofishing Programme for Scotland (NEPS) Fish Species Presence data has been updated. We strongly recommend using the updated version which can be located at https://doi.org/10.7489/12404-2
Please note, the National Electrofishing Programme for Scotland Fish Counts has been updated. We strongly advise you to access the newer version of the data on https://doi.org/10.7489/12201-3