04 Feb 2025
Significant economic and environmental benefits of seabed mapping within the UK Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) revealed in new report. The value of the seabed has been poorly understood, with just 27% of the UK EEZ mapped with high confidence, despite seabed mapping holding the potential to drive growth and innovation across a range of maritime […]
06 Jul 2021
In January 2021, Dorset Wildlife Trust commissioned remote sensing surveys in Weymouth Bay and Poole Bay, with funding from Natural England, to understand and document the impact of large vessel anchoring on seabed features and Marine Protected Areas. These surveys found that ships’ anchors had created large deep grooves, or scars, in the seabed, radiating around […]
26 Oct 2019
The following JNCC Reports have been published on the new JNCC website: JNCC Report No. 633: A calorific map of harbour porpoise prey in the North Sea JNCC Report No. 632: 1517S Cruise Report: Monitoring survey of North-east Faroe Shetland Channel NCMPA, Wyville-Thomson Ridge SAC & West Shetland Shelf NCMPA JNCC Report No. 630: 1218S […]
09 Apr 2018
The Nippon Foundation has announced that the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans’ Seabed 2030′ project is now under way. Seabed 2030 aims to map the entirety of the ocean floor by 2030. It will compile all available and newly collected bathymetric data into a single high-quality, high-resolution digital model of the ocean floor and promote international […]
01 Aug 2017
New reports from JNCC Thanks to John Henson Web: john.hensonwebb@jncc.gov.uk Our most recent publications are: New assessments on state of the marine environment in OSPAR waters Joint JNCC-Cefas reports:- No. 14A: CEND19x12: Cruise report for Braemar Pockmarks cSAC, Scanner Pockmark cSAC and Turbot Bank NCMPA proposal (014A – 2017) Ware, S. No. 15 CEND […]
14 Nov 2016
The latest report in the series by Plymouth University (dated March 2015) has just popped out of the system about a year after it was completed. This and previous reports provide an interesting assessment of change within an area closed to towed gear. Natural England has published ‘Lyme Bay – A case study: Response of […]