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 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...
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...
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.
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 4 No 3 An outbreak of Viral Haemorrhagic Septicaemia (VHS), as defined by European Community Council Directive 2006/88/EC, was detected during December 2012 in multiple species of wrasse (Labridae)...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 7 No 21 The objective of this study was to provide seasonal and regional estimates of harbour seal diet composition and regional estimates of prey consumption, and to investigate how harbour seal diet (...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Volume 1 No 16 There are concerns about the environmental impact of aquaculture to the seabed close to fish farm cages, including potential effects from persistent organic pollutants and trace metals....