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...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 7 No 30 Salmon fry densities on the river Dee were estimated from juvenile electrofishing data using a capture probability model initially developed in 2015. The resulting density estimates were compared...
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...
FISA Project 07/14: Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 8 No 2 Twin trawl trials were conducted in the West Coast of Scotland to examine the selectivity of Nephrops (Nephrops norvegicus) with regards to codends of the following mesh size...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Volume 1 No. 1 This report provides the results and assessment of a survey carried out by Marine Scotland Science, Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen as part of a rocky shore monitoring programme undertaken by...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 6 No 14 The report describes the data required, and the methods used, to estimate collision risk. It is accompanied by a worked example and R code (available at http://dx.doi.org/10.7489/1657-1), which...
This dataset includes a series of GIS layers produced from the preliminary versions of the seabed bathymetry survey work undertaken off the west coast of Lewis in 2011. Bathymetric data collected during the survey has been converted for use in...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 6 No 5 The introduction of hatchery-reared Atlantic salmon smolts to rivers in support of local salmon fisheries (termed ranching) is a controversial subject with little information available to fishery...