Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 9 No 1 Report describing the action taken by Marine Scotland after the grounding of the Transocean Winner semi-submersible rig on 27 July 2017 at 0652 local time at 58º 18.51’N 006º 46.2’W near Dalmore on...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 9 No 5 An array of 78 acoustic receivers was distributed among 47 rivers predominantly on the east and north coasts of Scotland. A further 8 receivers were moored on the north and east coasts near to...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 7 No 14 The Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA) for wave and tidal renewable energy generation in Scottish Waters (Faber, Maunsell...
The Greater North Sea English Quarter 3 Beam Trawl Groundfish Survey Monitoring and Assessment Data resource contains both biological and sampling information. There are two sampling areas a “Full” data set, this includes rectangles that have a...
The layers provide information on the intensity of mobile fishing associated with Oil and Gas pipelines and cables. Each layer was created by calculating the total number of fishing tracks in 1 km by 1 km squares along the length of each pipeline...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 8 No 18 Coastal European Union (EU) Member States (MS) operate groundfish surveys that cover almost the entire continental shelf of the Northeast Atlantic off Western Europe. Some survey work is also...
The Greater North Sea International Quarter 3 Otter Trawl Groundfish Survey Monitoring and Assessment Data resource contains both biological and sampling information. There are two sampling areas a “Full” data set, this includes rectangles that...
Collision Risk Models (CRM) are used to assess impacts on seabird populations in all offshore wind farms Environmental Impact Assessments (‘EIA‘) and Habitats Regulations Appraisals (‘HRA‘) in the UK. Existing collision models are unable to...
Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 8 No 13 The use of active high frequency echo sounders for commercial activities and marine research has been increasing in recent years. Compared to other anthropogenic noise sources, high frequency...
The CSNIreOT4 begins in 1992 and ends in 2016, Moriarty et al (2017) detail the survey’s history. The Celtic Sea Northern Irish Quarter 4 Otter Trawl Groundfish Survey Monitoring and Assessment Data resource contains both biological and sampling...