This report presents the results of Scottish regional king scallop stock assessments carried out by the Marine Directorate (MD) based on commercial catch-at-age data and survey data up to 2022. Full analytical assessments are presented for the...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 11 No 14 The interim Population Consequence of Disturbance (iPCoD) is a framework that allows individual-level effects from disturbance to be scaled to population-level impacts. This approach is...
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
Sampling of individual adult salmon is used to collect information on the size, sex and age of the fish. This information feeds directly into the stock assessments used for national and international management of Scottish salmon. Sampling of...
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)...