A team of Scottish researchers has discovered that green LEDs could hold the key to extracting a valuable ingredient for natural health and wellbeing supplements from microalgae. The feasibility study,…
The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has agreed to adopt a new Scottish-designed fishing technology as the new international standard for co-ordinated demersal fish population surveys…
After ten years of working with fishing gear research at Iceland’s Marine and Freshwater Research Institute, Georg Haney has been appointed as Hampiðjan’s new environmental director. Georg came to Iceland…
After a three-year design process followed by tendering, decisions have been made on the yard to build the new Icelandic research vessel that will replace the 60-year-old Bjarni Sæmundsson. The…
A new oceanographic research vessel for the Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi (EAD) has been floated off by Construcciones Navales P Freire in Vigo. The contract for what Abu Dhabi government describes…
The Shetland Fishermen’s Association (SFA) and the Scottish White Fish Producers’ Association (SWFPA) are to fund additional surveys of North Sea stocks as anger grows over the failure to tackle…
The first signs of sprats appearing in Icelandic waters were in 2017 when one fish was caught during a research survey. More were caught in subsequent surveys, and it has…
A joint study involving both Scottish and Dutch pelagic sectors has produced data that is central to better understanding of the reproductive cycles of pelagic stocks. The resulting paper is…
Dr. Alexandra Leeper has joined the Iceland Ocean Cluster team as the new head of research and innovation. She comes to this new position from the UK, and completed her…
Seabeds are in good health where trawl fisheries are sustainably managed, according to an innovative world-wide study of the impacts of bottom trawling. The first study of its kind, by Bangor University with collaborating research institutes, published…