Category: Marine Science
Morrisons extends partnership with Odyssey Innovation. Morrisons has extended its partnership with Odyssey Innovation for another year to continue tackling ‘ghost fishing gear’ and to help save British coastal wildlife and habitats. Over the last ...
OSPAR’s new climate change expert group meets. The first meeting of the newly created Climate Change Expert Group, led by the United Kingdom, took place online last month. The role of the CCEG is to ...
Advanced technology delivers for the SeaMonitor Project. Ocean tracking of Atlantic salmon extends to 600km. The ability to track free swimming salmon juveniles has been extended hundreds of kilometres into the open ocean using advanced ...
Seafood industry calls for more research on seismic testing under ‘real-world conditions’. Seafood Industry Australia (SIA), the national peak-body representing the Australian seafood industry, has called for more research into the impacts of seismic testing ...
Adam Leadbetter – Our People. In 2021, the Marine Institute is profiling our people, sharing their study and career paths, the work they do at the Marine Institute and the important contribution their work delivers. ...
Scottish public express concern over plastic litter in seas. The attitudes and behaviours of Scottish residents on the marine environment and the litter in our seas were published in last year’s Marine Social Attitudes Survey. So ...
New humpback whale ‘Orion’ sighted in Irish waters. A new individual Humpback Whale, nicknamed ‘Orion’, has been sighted for the first time in Irish waters, approximately 60 kilometres north-northwest of Malin Head, Co Donegal, Ireland. ...
Nagua achieves Friend of the Sea Certification for nautical eco-friendly cleaning products. Friend of the Sea, the global certification standard for products and services that respect and protect the marine environment, has recognised Nagua Swiss ...
Climate change threatens food security of many countries dependent on fish. Millions of people in countries around the world could face an increased risk of malnutrition as climate change threatens their local fisheries. New projections ...
Canada invests in new marine conservation efforts. Bernadette Jordan, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, has announced a $976.8M investment through Budget 2021 to continue marine conservation efforts and reach the goal ...
Scientists discover 400 year-old Greenland shark likely born around 1620. Greenland sharks are now the longest-living vertebrates known on Earth, according to scientists. Researchers used radiocarbon dating of eye proteins to determine the ages of ...
Assessment of climate change on UK Overseas Territories. The Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP), working closely with the UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs), has published the first comprehensive assessment of climate change impacts on coasts ...
Groundbreaking initiative to protect vital mangrove forests funded by Aquaculture Stewardship Council. The benefits of mangrove forests are increasingly well known, but numerous efforts to protect them have met with limited success. Now a pioneering ...
G20 commits to protecting the Antarctic. Historic shift by superpowers to allay biodiversity and climate crises. The Group of 20 (G20) environment leaders have committed to protecting Antarctica’s Southern Ocean from human pressures in order ...
First CPD interactive online course a success. Explorers Education Programme first CPD interactive online course a success ‘knocking it out of the park’. The Marine Institute’s Explorers Education Programme successfully held its first Continuing Professional ...
Cefas publishes statistics on experimental use of animals. In the UK research with protected (sentient) animals which has the potential to cause suffering is regulated under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (Amended Regulations 2012), ...
Marine migratory behaviour of salmon. New EU and Norwegian Research Council genetic study sheds considerable light on marine migratory behaviour of salmon. Marine survival of salmon in the eastern North Atlantic has substantially declined in ...
Western Indian Ocean region declares 143 marine and coastal areas protected – an area covering 553,163 square kilometres, representing 7 percent of the total Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) for the region – according to a ...
USV to minimise Aker BioMarine’s carbon footprint. Aker BioMarine has ordered a new Sounder USV (Unmanned Surface Vehicle) from Kongsberg Maritime to further reduce their carbon footprint and optimise krill harvesting in Antarctica. The USV ...
Holland-on-Sea marine mammal medics learn how to save seals. A NEW team of mammal medics has been formed following an interesting looking training day involving an inflatable whale and dolphin, states an article in the ...
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