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...
Wildlife observations, using methodologies developed by EMEC with input from SMRU, based on the methodology developed for the Fall of Warness tidal test site (Scapa Flow Methodology; Shapinsay Sound methodology), commenced at these sites in June...
The report describes how fine-scale harbour seal usage maps around Orkney and the north coast of Scotland, UK, can be used and interpreted, the caveats and limitations, and methodology used to produce them (Appendix A). 1. Harbour seal movement...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 6 No 6 Models of juvenile salmonid abundance are required to inform electrofishing based assessment approaches and potentially as an intermediate step in scaling conservation limits from data rich to...