BBC A pod of killer whales – including at least one calf – has been spotted in the River Clyde. The mammals, which have been dubbed “urban Orcas” by one expert, have been filmed near Gourock and Dunoon. David Nairn, of Clyde Porpoise marine mammal project, told the BBC Scotland website that they are regularly […]
Links between seabed type and quality are closely related to the abundance and size of young commercially fished species such as cod, haddock and whiting. A new study, led by the University of Glasgow and published today in Marine Ecology Progress Series, examines the abundance and size of these three types of commercial fish over the course of […]
COAST: Clyde Regulating Order – rejected – SIFT response The majority of Clyde marine stakeholders including creelers, sea anglers, commercial and recreational divers, boat trip and accommodation providers, not to mention wildlife operators and eNGOs are dismayed that the Scottish Government has rejected SIFT’s proposed Regulating Order (RO) for Clyde shell fisheries. This would have […]
For World Oceans Day 2016 COAST launched an online premiere of their new film. COAST: We are expecting to gain more visibility of our story, core messages and lessons learnt through our new 4 minute film about COAST called “Arran and the Sea: a community story” which you may remember we filmed a month ago […]
These two articles were flagged to me by the excellent COAST Newsletter – you can sign up here http://www.arrancoast.com/marine-news Both papers reveal the role of continued Nephrops – prawn fisheries on white fish stocks Fishery-induced changes to age and length dependent maturation schedules of three demersal fish species in the Clyde The paper published in Fisheries […]