ID Guide
The latest in the ‘decision trees’ from the SSACN Outreach Team offers a simple means of identifying near shore Scottish roundfish – you can download it here. The chart uses simple key decision points to determine which species you are looking at. As always we are indebted to the late Dr Dietrich Burkel for the […]
The latest in the ‘decision trees’ from the SSACN Outreach Team offers a simple means of identifying near shore Scottish flatfish – you can download it here. As before, the chart uses simple key decision points to determine which species you are looking at. As always we are indebted to the late Dr Dietrich Burkel […]
Following on from the shark decision tree, the SSTP Outreach Team have released this simple means of identifying near shore Scottish rays (or is it a skate) – you can download it here. As before, the chart uses simple key decision points to determine which species you are looking at. As always we are indebted […]
The SSTP Outreach Team have released this simple means of identifying Scottish sharks – you can download it here. The chart uses simple key decision points to determine which species you are looking at. As always we are indebted to the late Dr Dietrich Burkel for the use of the images.
Biology Other Names: Limanda limanda, Common Dab Description: The dab is a right-eyed, oval shaped flatfish with a pale brown upper surface, often mottled or marked with small dark or orange spots, and a pale white underside. Dabs have a fine, dark lateral line that forms a distinct semi-circular curve around the pectoral fin […]
Biology Other Names: Leucoraja naevus Description: Small to medium sized ray with a sand coloured dorsal surface with two very distinctive black and yellow marbled “eyespots” on the wings. The ventral surface is white. Cuckoo Rays have blunt snout and rounded wingtips. Many fish have a row of small thorns in front of each eye, […]
Biology Other Names: Raja brachyura Description: Large ray with a sandy brown dorsal surface with some large light spots and many small dark spots that always reach the very edge of the wingtips. The ventral surface is white. Blonde Rays have a blunt snout and often have rows of thorns alone the spine and […]
Today we look at the Tope in the fifth of our Species Fishing and ID guides. Biology Other Names: Galeorhinus galeus Description: Tope are a slender shark with a sandy brown to grey dorsal surface and pale white ventral surface. Unlike Smoothhound, Tope have a prominent lobed tail and sharp, triangular teeth. Juvenile tope […]
Our 2017 events schedule will be published within the coming months
These Events are open to all and SSACN look forward to seeing you at what will be a terrific weekend of sea angling.– come along and join in.
Wild Seaweed Harvesting Consultation
The Wild Seaweed Harvesting: Strategic Environmental Assessment - Environmental Report has been published on the Scottish Government web site. It can be found on the webpage; http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2016/11/6869 . There is a public consultation associated with this report. The Consultation on Wild Seaweed Harvesting started today, 22 November 2020 and will end on Friday, 15 February […]
Consultation on landing controls for Scottish crab and lobster fisheries
Scotland’s brown crab, velvet crab and lobster fisheries around much of the Scottish coast are estimated to be fished at levels close to or above the FMSY proxy (FMSY is the fishing mortality consistent with the largest average yield that can continuously be taken from a stock under existing environmental conditions). The Scottish fishing industry […]
Draft Wild Fisheries Strategy: a consultation
This consultation is designed to give stakeholders an opportunity to provide feedback on the approach currently being taken as the Government continue to develop the legislative provisions for a Wild Fisheries (Scotland) Bill. The easiest way to access and respond to the consultation is through the Scottish Government’s online consultation tool – Citizen Space. You […]
Help needed to ‘Revive the Clyde’
Please note that any comments have to be sent in by Monday 18th January. The Scottish Government has received an application for a Regulating Order, which intends to “revive the clyde”. If successful, the order submitted by the Sustainable Inshore Fisheries Trust (SIFT) will restrict prawn trawling in many of the areas thought to be […]
MPAs back out for consultation
Further consultations are to be held into three of the largest of the Scottish government’s planned marine protected areas (MPAs). The three designations involved cover the Small Isles, Wester Ross and Loch Sunart to the Sound of Jura. They form part of a proposed network of 30 protected areas. The decision to consult again follows […]
Commercial fishermen want new MPAs held off for 10 years
Western Isles fishermen yesterday joined calls to the Scottish Government for a 10 year moratorium on any new Marine Protection Areas (MPA) being granted around the islands. Duncan Macinnes of Western Isles Fisheries Association (WIFA) told Rural Affairs minister Richard Lochhead that any more MPAs risked driving younger fishermen and their families away from the […]
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