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Newsletter Issue 22.Pdf THE SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE SCIENCE NEWSLETTER NO. 1 6 O C TO B E R 2 0 0 0 SAMS NEWSLETTER 22 THE SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE SCIENCE The Minch in Tranquil Mood- Tac kling the threat s See Page 11 ©John Anderson, Highland Image THE SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE SCIENCE NEWSLETTER 2 2 Contents SAMS Board Scottish Marine • SAMS News President Group • Rockall Plateau now in International Dr Ian Graham-Bryce Waters: the fleets move in Vice Presidents SMG • Fishing moves to Deeper Waters Professor Sir Frederick Holliday Autumn Meeting 2000 Sir Cyril Lucas • ASP – Causes, Effects and Professor A.D. McIntyre Thursday, 26 October Consequences 1000-1030 hrs Dr J.H. Steele • WWF’s Oceans Recovery Campaign Professor Sir William Stewart University of Stirling Professor S.A. Thorpe • Scottish Marine Group Sustainable Development in New Study into Fish Populations Council the Marine Environment Professor G.S. Boulton of the Lower Forth Estuary. Professor P.R. Boyle Contact: Dr Hamish Mair • Managing fisheries to protect Mrs M.M. Crawford Email:[email protected] seabird communities Dr C.D. Todd Tel. 0131 451 3314 • Member’s View Fax: 0131 451 5078 Board Members The Minches – Better management Professor R. Crofts of hazardous traffic. Professor A.D. Hawkins Professor D.W. Mackay • Biogeochemistry 300 metres down Professor A. Miller west of the Inner Hebrides! Professor J.C. Smyth • Autosub samples Loch Etive Mr. A.M.J. Wemyss SAMS AGM Director 6 November 2000 Professor Graham B. Shimmield Congratulations to Graham Shimmield who has been granted an Honorary Professorship by the Invitation MarLIN University of St Andrews TO JOIN SAMS and to John Gage Categories of membership - The Marine Life who has been granted an Information Honorary Professorship Ordinary: All individuals interested in by the marine science Network for University of Aberdeen Subscription - £10 p.a. Britain & Ireland Editor: Helen Anderson, SAMS, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Student: All persons under 18 years Oban, Argyll, PA34 4AD. old or registered students For information Tel: 01631 562244 at a Higher Education Fax: 01631 565518 Institute in E-mail: [email protected]. support of marine Web site: Subscription - £5 p.a. environmental http://www.nerc-oban.ac.uk/dml Corporate: Organisations interested in Assistance received from supporting marine science. management, protection and Dr Clive Craik in the production of Subscriptions - £50 p.a. this Newsletter is acknowledged education, with thanks. Views expressed in this Newsletter For information contact: visit: are the views of the individual Helen Anderson, contributors and do not necessarily SAMS, DML, Oban, Argyll, PA34 4AD www.marlin.ac.uk reflect the views of SAMS Email: [email protected]. Designed by Design Links, Edinburgh 2 THE SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE SCIENCE NEWSLETTER 22 SAMS News Pr ofessor Graham B. Shimmield Di r ector of SAMS and Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory Left to right: Graham Shimmield, Ray Michie, MP, George Lyon, MSP, and Scottish Fisheries Minister, John Home Robertson, MP, MSP, beside the DML recompression chamber during their visit to Dunstaffnage. © John Anderson, Highland Image. he last two months have seen I am confident that our skill base, Minister, by Ray Michie, Member radical changes in how infrastructure and location at of Parliament and George Lyon, Tmarine science in the UK Dunstaffnage give us a sound basis Member of the Scottish Parliament. will be funded. The NERC Council on which the future of the NERC’s decision gives SAMS the has dissolved the Centre for Coastal Laboratory, as the headquarters of opportunity to emerge as a key and Marine Sciences (CCMS), SAMS, will be built. institution able to provide the allowing its three sites at Over the past few years, SAMS has scientific base for policy and Dunstaffnage, Bidston and Plymouth established key relationships with the legislation in marine science to reconstitute themselves with local university sector, especially the issues affecting not only Scotland and regional partnerships. University of the Highlands and but also the UK and Europe. In At Dunstaffnage, the Laboratory will Islands project, and with the private this Newsletter, articles on the deep pr obably rev e r t to sole operation and sector. More recently, there has been water fisheries and fish stocks to the management by SAMS, effe c t i v e l y the emerging research and west of Scotland are supreme ret u r ning to the pre-1989 constitution. development effort supported by examples of the value and relevance Funding from NERC will have to be Highlands and Islands Enterprise and of our work. Over the coming won in competition and bid for over the Scottish Executive, to establish months, the staff at Dunstaffnage, the last few months of this year Dunstaffnage as a location of the Directorate, Council and whilst SAMS re-negotiates its independent marine scientific individual members will all be able to relationship with NERC. Despite the excellence. In July, we were play an important role in shaping initial dismay and major uncertainty privileged to receive a visit by John the Association’s research and over the implications of this decision, Home Robertson, Scottish Fisheries teaching agenda. 3 THE SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE SCIENCE NEWSLETTER 2 2 SAMS News co n t i n u e d Pr ofessor Graham B. Shimmield Marine A warm ‘thank you’ Science and welcome Degree he first of August marked another occasion: Sir David Smith stepped y the time you receive down after being President of SAMS for over six years. Throughout my this Newsletter, one Ttenure as Director of SAMS, Sir David steered the Association through Bof SAMS objectives some difficult political and operational issues with great insight and vision. He will have been realised – the provided integrity in our relationship with NERC, reminding SAMS Council and arrival of the first cohort of members of the value of true partnership and mutual respect between the organisations. His period as President saw the emergence of a major portfolio of undergraduate students at SAMS research and teaching commitment. Personally, I benefited tremendously Dunstaffnage, studying for a from the frankness and support he gave me. BSc in Marine Science with the University of the Highlands At this challenging moment in the and Islands project. Association’s development, we are extremely fortunate to welcome as our new The gestation of this new President Dr Ian Graham-Bryce, formerly University has been Principal of the University of Dundee. Ian challenging and rewarding, brings knowledge and background gained as a with much to celebrate and chemist, an industrialist and the Principal of a university with a major research reputation. admire. For the first time, He was also a Member of NERC Council and students in Scotland can Chairman of the Prior Options (1996) Review register for an interdisciplinary Committee. degree in marine science at a I am sure I speak for the entire membership of fully operational research SAMS in thanking Sir David for his dedication facility where they will have and in welcoming and thanking Ian for picking access to vessels, aquaria, and up the mantle of President. diving facilities a few meters The remainder of this millennium year will from the environment they Sir David Smith prove to be very interesting! are studying. This unique educational experience has been achieved through the vision of Professor Jack Matthews and SAMS Council, the hard work of the Marine Science degree team and the support of Dr John French in his role as Head of Academic Development with the UHIp. The teaching and dissemination of marine science knowledge is part of the SAMS constitution and I am absolutely confident that this year will be seen as a defining moment in the history of the Association. Dr Ian Graham-Bryce 4 THE SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE SCIENCE NEWSLETTER 22 Rockall Plateau now in International Waters - the fleets move in John D.M. Gordon The Scottish Association for Marine Science international sector of the plateau the area. These stocks are not subject and is fishing for haddock without to any management regulations and any restrictions, despite almost the scientific advice is that they are weekly protests by all sections of the being harvested beyond safe fishing industry. biological limits. The resolution of the haddock At their May meeting, the Advisory problem will require agreement Committee on Fisheries Management between the European Union and the of the International Council for the Northeast Atlantic Fisheries Exploration of the Sea (ICES) Commission which has jurisdiction recommended up to 50% reductions n 1997, the UK Foreign over international waters. However, a in fishing effort on some species Office ratified the United glance at the bathymetric chart with and that there should be no directed INations Convention on the Law the former and new fishing limits fishery for blue ling. Since all the of the Sea. superimposed (see figure) shows that deep-water species straddle the This Convention excludes there are likely to be even greater boundary between coastal state uninhabited rocks being used to problems with deep-water species. jurisdiction and international support territorial claims. Britain’s Large areas of the slopes of the waters it will tax the ingenuity of most westerly claim then became the Rockall Bank and most of the the politicians to devise a system St Kilda group of islands but Rockall Hatton Bank lie between depths of that will be effective in conserving itself remained within the UK 200- about 500 and 1500 m where there these stocks. mile exclusive fishery zone. However, are stocks of deep-water species such Dr John Gordon is a Senior SAMS as the UK could no longer claim a as roundnose grenadier, black Fellow and has been researching 200 mile fishing zone around "the scabbardfish, blue ling and deep- deep-water fishes since 1975.
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