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....
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 5 No 12 The established modelling approach to estimating collision risk employed in environmental assessment of wind farms (the Band model) was developed by Band in 2000, updated in 2007 and has since...
Bathymetric survey data for two areas at the west and north west of Orkney. The original bathymetry is used to derive new products. The data is made available as ESRI layer packages and as Google Earth formats. Due to the size of the datasets...
Bathymetric survey data for several areas around the Outer Hebrides. The original bathymetry is used to derive new products. The data are made available as ESRI layer packages and as Google Earth formats. Due to the size of the datasets they have...
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...