`Scottish Fisheries Co-ordination Centre AGM 2015

SFCC 2014 Overview

• Data sharing and facilitation of national-scale projects

• Communication

• Skills & Training

• Wild Fisheries Review

• Acknowledgements

`Scottish Fisheries Co-ordination Centre AGM 2015

1. Collation of Available Datasets on Smolt Populations in Scotland (MSS)

2. Collation and supply of data from all members for a component of the MSS conservation limits project

3. University of Southampton/ SEPA project

1. MSS - Scotland Temperature Monitoring Network

`Scottish Fisheries Co-ordination Centre AGM 2015

• Thank you to all Trusts/others

• All data provided within short timescales

• Standard format

• >500,000 data points

• £10,000

• Thank you to MSS (D-C, Iain).

`Scottish Fisheries Co-ordination Centre AGM 2015

•MSS Conservation Limits

• Thank you to all SFCC members for providing data

• Data formatting and supply enabled through database

• “All SFCC data went in to analysis software first time”.

• Process required 10 SFCC man days.

`Scottish Fisheries Co-ordination Centre AGM 2015

1. Developing diagnostic tools for assessing and predicting the impacts of engineering structures and maintenance activities on UK rivers (University of Southampton/ SEPA).

`Scottish Fisheries Co-ordination Centre AGM 2015

`Scottish Fisheries Co-ordination Centre AGM 2015

• In considering all 4 projects together:

• SFCC-MSS interface: alive and functioning

• Welcome further collaborative work

• Smolt database (20 minutes)

• Smolt protocol

• Value of database (man hours)

• WFR section 8 – Sound Science

`Scottish Fisheries Co-ordination Centre AGM 2015

• Communication

• Website

• Questionnaire

• E-Bulletins

• Annual Report

• VISION Statement

`Scottish Fisheries Co-ordination Centre AGM 2015

Time allocation

• Annual Report

• CEH Licensing

• Website development and feedback

• MSS EL Data Project

Training

• IFM points accreditation

• Smolt monitoring workshop

• Team leader refresher course

• Scale reading online learning resource

• GIS E-learning

• Collaboration with IBIS

`Scottish Fisheries Co-ordination Centre AGM 2015

Time allocation

• Annual Report

• CEH Licensing

• Website development and feedback

• MSS EL Data Project

Training

• IFM points accreditation

• Smolt monitoring workshop

• Team leader refresher course

• Scale reading online learning resource

• GIS E-learning

• Collaboration with IBIS

`Scottish Fisheries Co-ordination Centre AGM 2015

• Skills & Training

Course TitleAttendees in 2014

Scale reading 7

Advanced GIS 5

Smolt Monitoring 17

Intro to Electrofishing (Jackie Graham) 24

Team Leader 7

Team Leader Refresher 17

Electrofishing Data Modelling 11

`Scottish Fisheries Co-ordination Centre AGM 2015

• Skills & Training

`Scottish Fisheries Co-ordination Centre AGM 2015

• Skills & Training

`Scottish Fisheries Co-ordination Centre AGM 2015

• Skills & Training

Course Title Demand

Scale reading (26th March) 19

Fish tracking and telemetry 23

Introduction to R statistics 18

Intro to Electrofishing 13

Team Leader 2

Team Leader Refresher (25th, 26th June) 12

Habitat Surveying 5

Statistics 21

Online GIS 24

`Scottish Fisheries Co-ordination Centre AGM 2015

Time allocation

• Annual Report

• CEH Licensing

• Website development and feedback

• MSS EL Data Project

Training

• IFM points accreditation

• Smolt monitoring workshop

• Team leader refresher course

• Scale reading online learning resource

• GIS E-learning

• Collaboration with IBIS

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55lbs July 1995 Namsen Norway netted in Fjord 3.4

`Scottish Fisheries Co-ordination Centre AGM 2015

• – WFR Recommendation 38

• Co-ordination

`Scottish Fisheries Co-ordination Centre AGM 2015

• 2015 – JH

• BSWG

• Acknowledgements

• James

• Training providers (JG).

• SFCC members