This dataset includes a series of GIS layers produced from a Marine Scotland Science, British Geological Survey and Northern Lighthouse Board survey of an area south west of Shetland. Bathymetric data collected during the survey has been...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 6 No 2 The Scottish Government has set ambitious targets for renewable power generation. Marine Renewable Energy, including wind, wave and tidal power are expected to contribute significantly to these...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 7 No 8 Marine Scotland has led the development of a hydrodynamic model (FVCOM) for the Scottish continental shelf waters called the Scottish Shelf Model (SSM). A series of six reports have been produced...
The Scottish Government has prepared Regional Locational Guidance to facilitate the development of offshore tidal energy Scottish Waters. The Guidance gives consideration to detailed environmental, technical and socio-economic and planning issues...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 7 No 20 Since the last comprehensive assessment of grey seal diet around Britain in 2002, grey seal numbers have continued to rise in the North Sea while harbour seal numbers have declined in Shetland,...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 7 No 26 This report is comprised of three parts: Part 1- Executive Summary, Part 2 –Description of Scotland’s Coastal Monitoring Sites, Part 3 - Appendices. MSS has been monitoring the physics, chemistry...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 6 No 7 The north-eastern Atlantic stock of spurdog (Squalus acanthias) is assessed as being at a historical low by ICES and others (De Oliveira et al. 2013, ICES 2014). In consequence a zero Total...
Following the creation of the Lewis 2010 Bathymetric Dataset, Marine Scotland Science have converted the data into a geodatabase. This allows for the data to be queried using standard SQL commands. It can also be plotted in ArcGIS as a normal...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 8 No 1 In this manual we describe the different stages of the fish capture process, highlight how different parts of the gear may influence selection and identify possible design changes which can...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 8 No 8 This report describes the work of the Scottish Marine Animal Strandings Scheme between 2012 and 2015. Data on marine animal strandings in Scotland are described and analysed within the report.