The ‘Big Picture’ Benthic Imagery Analysis Workshop Report The JNCC hosted a three-day workshop in March 2019 to bring together stakeholders from a wide variety of organisations across the UK, and beyond, to discuss benthic imagery issues, propose solutions and start to develop a collaborative Action Plan to drive the work forward. A general summary of the workshop sessions and actions for the Plan Development Group (workshop task and finish group to create the Action Plan) can be viewed on the NMBAQC website.
The State of European Cetaceans Report The State of European Cetaceans Report by ORCA gives an overview of cetaceans sightings over a 10 year period. 06 Feb 2017
New guidance published by UK government Guidance has been published on how to assess the impact of your activity in estuarine (transitional) and coastal waters for the Water Framework Directive (WFD). 16 Dec 2016
marine monitoring method finder JNCC has developed a new tool to meet the needs of the UK marine monitoring community. Please try it out and provide feedback. 05 Apr 2016
NMP Scotland This interactive tool has been designed to assist in the development of national and regional marine planning. National Marine Plan interactive (NMPi) allows you to view different types of information and, where appropriate, links have been provided to the related parts of Scotland's Marine Atlas and will also be provided to the National Marine Plan in due course. 05 Apr 2016
Winter version of Defra Fishing Focus Fishing Focus is a marine newsletter published by Defra to keep stakeholders informed about the work Defra are doing. Their winter version is now out. 29 Jan 2016
European Atlas of the seas This is an innovative application bringing the maritime world and Europe's maritime heritage straigt to your computer screen. 03 Aug 2015
EU-project SCALES publishes book The EU-project SCALES is about to end, but they have now have completed and published a free ebook on Scaling in Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation. 01 Aug 2014
MEDIN Newsletter The latest MEDIN Newsletter contains an on-line mapping tool for marine planning in Scotland and the MEDIN reference layers catalogue. 12 Nov 2013
Fishing Focus issue 29 is out In this issue you can read about: the Marine Conservation Zones consultation, CFP reform, the catch quota scheme, protecting dolphins and porpoises, the Cod Recovery Plan, fisheries in European Marine Sites, news from the Marine Management Organisation including marine planning, fish DNA testing scheme and 2013 fisheries sector grants. 15 May 2013
Two new reports available from the Crown estate The Crown estate have published two new reports: 'Lymington harbour habitat replenishment scheme – Phase II: Summary of works' and 'Marine biodiversity offsetting – UK scoping study'. 10 May 2013
Scottish Marine Atlas Published Marine Scotland launches an assessment of the condition of Scotland's seas. The Scotland marine atlas is available for free download. 30 Apr 2013
Marine Science report published The Commons Science and Technology Select Committee has released its marine science report. 23 Apr 2013
New short courses at SAMS SAMS are running some marine short courses, including Algaculture for Biotechnology , Introduction to Molecular Methods for Algae Research, Cryopreservation and an Algal Biotechnology Masters. 23 Apr 2013
Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure (PESI) The Marine Biological Association are currently involved in the PESI project which aims to standardise and harmonise taxonomic information systems across Europe and across the marine and terrestrial environments. WoRMS is the standard being used for the marine community, but part of the PESI work is to create and harmonise a UK species list with tagged taxonomic and additional information (protected status, biological traits etc) to the WoRMS list. 27 Apr 2010
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) The World Register of Marine Species is an online resource which aims to provide the most authoritative list of names of all marine species globally. WoRMS is now endorsed by the Healthy and Biologically Diverse Seas Evidence Group (HBDSEG), and all marine taxonomic data collected by UK government agencies are expected to be WoRMS compliant. 26 Apr 2010
CCW tackles invasive sea squirt in Holyhead harbour CCW lead the fight to eradicate the sea squirt (Didemnum vexillum) in Holyhead harbour which is threatening to smother native marine life in Wales. 01 Feb 2010