The Scottish Government has prepared Regional Locational Guidance to facilitate the development of offshore wave energy Scottish Waters. The Guidance gives consideration to detailed environmental, technical and socio-economic and planning issues...
European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) wildlife observation data has been collected from the marine renewable test sites at Billia Croo and Fall of Warness in Orkney. These data have been processed and cleansed and used in reports prepared by EMEC...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 5 No 6 This project was undertaken in the context of the National Research and Monitoring Strategy for Diadromous Fish (NRMSD) to investigate the potentialfor interactions between diadromous fish and...
A bathymetric survey of an area identified for renewable development off the south west coast of Islay was carried out by Marine Scotland Science in 2013. This data has been corrected to chart datum and cleaned at 2m resolution. This data was...
A bathymetric survey of Tiree has been carried out by Marine Scotland, the British Geological Survey team (BGS) and the Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB). This data has been tide corrected and cleaned. It is available to download here in several...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 5 No 10 The requirement to display sensitive areas relating to the life history of commercially important fish species in British waters is well recognized. Sensitive areas have previously been described...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 6 No 9 Effects of mains frequency (50Hz) magnetic fields (MF) on behaviour of captive Atlantic salmon were examined in a large arena. Fish swam spontaneously within the arena passing from one side to...
The MSS deepwater trawl survey is a time series from the continental slope of the Rockall Trough, NE Atlantic. The survey covers depths between 300-2067m. The survey began in 1998 and has taken place each year except 1999, 2001, 2003, and 2010....
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 7 No 4 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...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 7 No 9 This report presents summaries of historic and recent landings data and the results of stock assessments for brown crab, velvet crab and lobster, based on data collected between 2009 and 2012. A...