Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)

As the EU marked European Maritime Day this month, a Government-backed report has been published reviewing private and public sector marine science and evidence needs. It also assesses the ability of the UK’s private sector marine science and technology sector to meet those needs, and opportunities for future growth.

Faced with a growing…

UK scientists will measure the effect on the marine environment and wildlife of devices that harness tide and wave energy using sonar technology that has, for the first time, been successfully deployed on the seabed.

Renewable energy from tidal currents can be generated using turbines in the tidal flow, and wave energy can be captured in a number of…

The National Oceanography Centre has welcomed the appointment of Professor Ian Boyd as Defra’s new Chief Scientific Adviser.

Professor Boyd, who is Director of the Scottish Oceans Institute at the University of St Andrews, and the NERC Sea Mammal Research Unit, a Delivery Partner of NOC, will join Defra in September on a three-year contract.…

Where Atlantic salmon feed in the ocean has been a long-standing mystery, but new research led by the University of Southampton shows that marine location can be recovered from the chemistry of fish scales. Surprisingly, salmon from different British rivers migrate to feed in separate places, and may respond differently to environmental change.

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