Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 9 No 9 This report presents the results of two surveys in the vicinity of Loch Creran, performed in September 2016 in support of efforts to contain and control the marine invasive non-native tunicate...
This record contains the final site locations for the National Electrofishing Programme for Scotland (NEPS) and supplementary SAC monitoring that were fished during the summer 2018.
The 2016 assessment of the UK's Clean Seas Environment Monitoring Programme described the status and trends of contaminant concentrations and biological effects measurements in biota and sediment at monitoring stations in waters around the UK....
The 2017 assessment described the status and trends of external fish disease in common dab at monitoring stations in waters around the UK. A fish disease index (FDI) that combines observations of disease incidence and severity, disease weighting...
Marine Scotland is the custodian of a hydrodynamic model of Scottish continental shelf waters, the Scottish Shelf Model (SSM). The wider Scottish Shelf model (SSM) domain covers the Scottish continental shelf at relatively high resolution (up to...
Average (mean) physical variables from the FVCOM Scottish Shelf Model (SSM) interpolated to 1.5 x 1.5 km and 7 x 7 km regular grids. The data are averaged over 3x four month periods (MAMJ, JASO, NDJF), and are provided from model runs with and...
There are concerns that sea lice in the coastal environment are impacting on the return rates of wild Atlantic salmon on the West coast of Scotland. Studies in Norway and Ireland involving examining survival of groups of migrating salmon smolts...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 9 No 10 In September 2016 Marine Scotland Science performed a survey of the Rubha Mor Farm along with a detailed survey of the foreshore around Loch Creran. In this report we present the results of a...
The 2017 assessment described the status of biological effects of contaminants (micronucleus) in fish at monitoring stations in waters around the UK. Data was collected from 2012 - 2014.
The Ythan is a shallow estuary on the East Coast of Scotland that has site of special scientific interest status. Samples are taken by staff from Aberdeen University's Oceanlab. The data collected goes towards their research into the ecosystem of...