10 Sep 2024
Scientists from multiple institutions are to investigate the impact of British wind farms on the seabed amid plans to build up to 25,000 more offshore turbines. The researchers, upon a private survey vessel, examined one of the oldest active offshore wind farms in the UK, the Ørsted wind farm, off the coast of Cumbria. The […]
10 Sep 2024
The EU Court of Justice has ruled that key information on how EU fisheries rules are implemented by Member States can remain confidential. This ruling is the last stage of a case ClientEarth brought against the Commission for refusing to grant the NGO access to audit reports detailing failures by France and Denmark to control illegal fishing – […]
10 Sep 2024
OSPAR’s Quality Status Report 2023 showed that marine birds continue to be in trouble due to the effects of climate change and other pressures resulting from human activities such as mortality, habitat loss and degradation. In direct response to this assessment countries from around the North-East Atlantic together with the European Union have adopted an […]
10 Sep 2024
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is encouraging sea anglers and commercial fishers to share their views on the future management of wrasses, black seabream and gilthead bream. Credit: MMO Potential Management Measures MMO is leading development of new Fisheries Management Plans (FMP) for the species in English waters. It has launched a short online survey […]
10 Sep 2024
Marine conservation and education charity, the Scottish Seabird Centre, based in East Lothian, was thrilled to receive a grant of £249,685 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund earlier this year. The funding has been awarded to improve the overall sustainability of the Charity’s operations, develop partnerships with business and to better steward and grow its […]
10 Sep 2024
The Earth Observation for Marine and Climate Mission (EO4MCM) development programme is part of a wider £15 million government investment announced in 2022. It aims to identify and develop instruments for applications relating to climate change, maritime and net zero, which are suitable for deployment on constellations of small satellites. The EO4MCM projects will be […]
10 Sep 2024
New technology built at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) that can measure the smallest trace of light beneath the ocean surface has revealed photosynthesis occurring at greater depths than previously believed. The discovery is part of a new international study recently published in Nature Communications that shows how the photosynthetic potential of phytoplankton […]
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