A key concern expressed by policy makers, regulators and environmental stakeholders about the deployment of marine energy devices in open waters, relates to the possibility of the negative effects they may have on marine mammals and diving birds...
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 2010. Bathymetric data collected during the survey has been converted for use in...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 8 No 5 The primary aim of this project was to investigate the commercial viability of fishing with demersal fish traps and automated handlines in the Scottish demersal fishery. Establishing a demersal...
This dataset includes a series of GIS layers produced from a Marine Scotland Science survey of the Pentland Firth. Bathymetric data collected during the survey has been converted for use in ARCGIS and several products are derived from this...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 5 No 7 A key concern expressed by policy makers, regulators and environmental stakeholders about deployment of marine energy devices in open waters relates to the possibility of negative impacts they may...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 7 No 23 Diet composition estimates for pinnipeds are widely conducted using prey hard remains recovered from faeces. To estimate the size and number of prey consumed accurately, digestion correction...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 5 No 11 This report describes a modelling approach which has been developed to correct the reported catch of Scottish rod fisheries by accounting for recaptures associated with these data. In the absence...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 7 No 5 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 28 The current genetic analysis alludes to finer scale structuring of Atlantic cod stocks in the IVa and VIa stock units than had previously been reported by Heath et al. (2014). Consistent with...