VMS data for all UK registered commercial fishing vessels (=15m length) for the period 2009-2013 in ICES areas VIa, VIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IIa, VIId, and VIIa have been combined with landings information to develop GIS layers describing the spatial...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 5 No 5 This report examines utility of assigning fish to river in Scotland using Single Nucleotide Polymorphic (SNP) markers. The analysis has shown that, depending on baseline coverage, it is possible...
The Marine Monitoring Network Review project was conducted between January 2012 and April 2012. This work aimed to review the existing Scottish marine monitoring network, to identify its capabilities and to identify gaps in marine environmental...
Following the creation of the Pentland Firth 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 7 No 3 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 5 No 1 The OSPAR ICES Study Group on Ocean Acidification (SGOA) and the Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON) have both identified the need for a commitment to long-term monitoring at...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Volume 1 No 2 To date, OSPAR has largely been responsible for the development of an ecosystem approach to the management of marine natural resources. Ten Ecological Quality Issues have been identified, with...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 6 No 13 The main aim of this work was to trial the use of Succorfish’s SC2 VMS tracking technology on vessels from the inshore scallop dredge fleet around Shetland and to evaluate its effectiveness as a...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 5 No 15 Descriptor 9 (contaminants in food) is one of eleven Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) qualitative Descriptors to be used in determining whether Good Environmental Status (GES) has been...
The Brahan HF Radar Demonstration Project (http://www.thebrahanproject.com/) is a collaboration between Marine Scotland Science, Qualitas Remos, and others, to show the application of High Frequency (HF) Radar in Scottish waters. This data...