CSNIreOT1 begins in 1992 and ends in 2016, Moriarty et al (2017) detail the survey’s history. The Celtic Sea Northern Irish Quarter 1 Otter Trawl Groundfish Survey Monitoring and Assessment Data resource contains both biological and sampling...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 8 No 23 This report describes a research project, the aim of which was to review the use of Population Viability Analysis (PVA) metrics in the context of assessing the effect of offshore renewable...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vo 8 No 9 Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAHs) were measured in environmental samples (water, fish and sediment) collected in 2014 and 2016 from the Faroe-Shetland Channel and Rosemary Bank Seamount....
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 9 No 2 Marine spatial planning (MSP) is an emerging field of management aimed at promoting the sustainable use of the marine environment. In order to further the progression of MSP, a European Union...
Marine Scotland is the custodian of a hydrodynamic model of Scottish continental shelf waters, the Scottish Shelf Model (SSM). The wider Scottish Shelf model (SSM) domain covers the Scottish continental shelf at relatively high resolution (up to...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 10 No 4 A range of pilot Scottish Beach Litter Performance Indicators (SBLPIs) are proposed which aim to allow the Scottish Government to monitor the state of litter on its beaches, as well as judge the...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 10 No 3 A new high-resolution hydrodynamic model has been developed covering the Clyde Sea. This report describes the model setup in detail. Initial validation of the model is mixed, suggesting that it...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 9 No 9 This report presents the results of two surveys in the vicinity of Loch Creran, performed in September 2016 in support of efforts to contain and control the marine invasive non-native tunicate...
This record contains the final site locations for the National Electrofishing Programme for Scotland (NEPS) and supplementary SAC monitoring that were fished during the summer 2018.
The 2017 assessment described the status and trends of external fish disease in common dab at monitoring stations in waters around the UK. A fish disease index (FDI) that combines observations of disease incidence and severity, disease weighting...