Marine Scotland Science Annual Update for SFCC Meeting - John Armstrong, Marine Scotland Science
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Talk provided during the Scottish Fisheries Co-ordination Centre Annual Biologist's Meeting, February 3rd and 4th 2016, Milton Birnam Hotel
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- 2. Freshwater Fisheries • 34 staff (6p/t) • Pitlochry, Montrose and Shieldaig • Field stations and traps at Girnock and Baddoch • Fish counters on N Esk and Helmsdale
- 3. Freshwater Fisheries: science and advice flow FFL Local fisheries Trusts and Boards Scottish Fisheries Coordination Centre Marine Scotland Policy Scottish Government Ministers International NASCO ICES Local
- 4. Main themes 1. Assessment, licensing and regulation 2. Salmon conservation limits 3. Aquaculture interactions 4. Climate change
- 5. Assessment, licensing and regulation 1. Catches 2. Counters 3. Traps 4. Biological data 5. Licensing: introductions, illegal methods, brood-stock, predators (advice) 6. Eel plan, NASCO implementation plan
- 6. Salmon conservation limits 1. Catches 2. Counters 3. Exploitation rates 4. Traps 5. Stock-recruitment curves 6. Biological data (genetics, sex ratio, spring stock distribution) 7. Electrofishing surveys 8. Categorisation
- 7. Aquaculture interactions 1. Smolt distribution (tracking, modelling) 2. Sea lice distribution (sentinel cages, modelling) 3. Sea lice impact assessment 4. Risk mapping
- 8. Climate change 1. Environmental change (chemistry) 2. Temperature models (empirical, process-based) 3. Mitigation (tree planting, discharge regulation)
- 9. Strategic data networks Existing •Catches •Temperature •Upland waters: chemistry, inverts, fish •Sea lice sweep nets •Beaver woodland
- 10. 3. Strategic data networks Developing and future?? •Lice impact/marine survival/(seal impact?) •Counters •Smolt emigrant data •Smolt tracking data •Fishing Effort (S Esk report) •Electrofishing •Predator counts? •Predator damage? •Predator impacts? •Coarse fish etc??