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Seasonal Variations in the Catch Composition of the Norway Lobster, Nephrops norvegicus (L.) around Scotland

Scottish research ship sampling, by trawl, shows that the catch of male Norway lobsters does not exhibit any marked seasonal variation in size composition. The males, therefore, provide the most suitable means of comparing year to year variations in the stock and constitute a basis on which to assess seasonal differences in the catchable stock of non-berried and berried females. Females mature at about 23 mm carapace length. The immature sizes show no seasonal variation in abundance. Mature females are mainly caught in the non-berried state between the moulting, which reaches its peak in May, and spawning, which is at its peak in September. The period of incubation is about eight months. Other investigators working on the stocks off North Shields, and at the Faroes, have concluded that Norway lobsters spawn only every second year but their data have certain limitations. Around Scotland the mature female spawns in autumn: hatching occurs in May followed immediately by the moult and mating: the female spawns again in the subsequent autumn. The sex ratio, taken in June and July, reflects the extent of fishing but its use in this regard is limited by the effects on the sex ratio of seasonal variations in fishing intensity.

The Scottish Research Reactor Centre

The Scottish Research Reactor Centre

The scottish research reactor centre

The scottish research reactor centre

The Scottish Research Reactor Centre, and its facilities for the production and exploitation of short-lived radioisotopes: A. Ward, Royal College of Science and Technology, Glasgow, U.K.

The Scottish Research Reactor Centre, and its facilities for the production and exploitation of short-lived radioisotopes: A. Ward, Royal College of Science and Technology, Glasgow, U.K.

The Survival of Larval Fish in the Northern North sea According to the Quality of the sea Water

The numbers of fish eggs and planktonic stages of fish taken during a 5-year period by the Scottish research vessels in the northern North Sea have been associated with the presence of Sagitta elegans and S. setosa in the same collections and over an 11-year period with the presence or absence of S. elegans. The results confirm Russell's findings in the English Channel that fish larvae are more abundant when S. elegans is present than when S. setosa is present.The total numbers of fish eggs do not show these differences; spawning does not appear to be any more productive in water associated with S. elegans, rather the reverse, and this is shown to be so for the eggs of those species separately examined. Numbers of the larvae were distinctly greater in the ‘mixed’ conditions indicated by the presence of S. elegans and a more abundant food supply is a possible cause. That the differences may signify a more fundamental effect, however, is suggested by the figures for cod and haddock eggs, which show the earliest stages to be more abundant where S. elegans was absent although later stages were more abundant when S. elegans was present.

SHORT NOTICES

Journal Article SHORT NOTICES Get access The Bibliotheck.A Journal of Bibliographical Notes and Queries mainly of Scottish Interest. Vol. I, no. 1. Pp. 32. The Scottish Group,the University and Research Section of the Library Association, 1956. £I per vol. P.A P.A Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of English Studies, Volume IX, Issue 33, 1958, Pages 122-b–123, https://doi.org/10.1093/res/IX.33.122-b Published: 01 January 1958

X. The Scottish Home Department's Marine Laboratory in Aberdeen

Scotland's vital interest in the fisheries needs no stressing. Nor does her interest in marine research, for which reference to the pioneer work of Edward Forbes and the voyages of the Challenger and the Scotia alone are sufficient testimonial. Both in England and in Scotland many Commissions have been set up to try to deal with one fisheries problem or another. The setting up of the Board of British White Herring Fisheries in 1808 may be said to have been the beginning of a new phase; as a result Scotland has one of the best series of fishery statistics, those for the “cured” herring fishery, available to-day—and statistics are the foundation of fisheries research! Apart from this, perhaps Scottish fishery research, as distinct from marine research, may be said to have begun in 1836 when a Dr Knox “was asked, in order to solve a fishery problem in the Firth of Forth, to investigate whether the sprat and the herring were different species or not; and further, in 1842, Mr Henry Goodsir was employed to gain some definite information about the growth, food and habits of the herring. This was just one of many contemporary problems; a later one, of course, concerned the influence of the developing trawl fishery upon the conventional method of lining for demersal fish such as cod and haddock. The duties of this Board were the supervision of the fisheries (of which herring was the principal), the “branding” of herring and “cran” measures, securing the observation of the few international fisheries regulations of that time, guarding the territorial limits from the encroachment of foreign fishermen, and supplying to the Scottish Meteorological Society information about weather conditions in the fisheries.

Warm-water species in the plankton off the English Channel entrance

Through the kindness of Dr L. H. N. Cooper of Plymouth I have been given the opportunity of examining some of the plankton samples taken by Surg.-Lt. P. Campbell, R.N.V.R., of H.M.S. Challenger. It is hoped that the results of these and later surveys will be published elsewhere in more detail, and in association with those made by the Scottish research vessels farther north, but two records of unusual interest are brought to notice here. The collections so far examined in detail were taken during April and May 1953, on a line of stations west of the English Channel, from 49° 39′ N., 3° 30′ W. to 47° 16′ N., 17° 52′ W. between 15 and 19 April, and on the return line from 47° 50′ N., 17° 40′ W. to 49° 28′ N., 5° 52′ W. between 25 and 28 May. They were made by 10 min. horizontal hauls at 30 fathoms depth.

WORLD WIDE CHEMISTRY

RETURN TO ISSUEPREVNewsNEXTWORLD WIDE CHEMISTRYIceland, in returning to an agricultural economy, will establish her first chemical industry... Scottish research yielding new chemicals from seaweedCite this: Chem. Eng. News 1951, 29, 4, 304Publication Date (Print):January 22, 1951Publication History Published online5 November 2010Published inissue 22 January 1951https://doi.org/10.1021/cen-v029n004.p304Copyright © 1951 AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETYArticle Views3Altmetric-Citations-LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InReddit PDF (107 KB) SUBJECTS:Manufacturing Get e-Alerts

Scientific Research and Industrial Development in Scotland

AT the regional conference on “Research and the Progress of Industry in Scotland”, organised by the Federation of British Industries in Glasgow last April, the tendency for the direction of policy, market research and technical research to become concentrated in the south-eastern portion of the United Kingdom even although production might be located where labour was available, sometimes at considerable distances from headquarters, came in for some criticism. Dr. W. M. Cummings, for example, remarked that practically all the research associations sponsored by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research are situated in that area, and suggested that this may be one reason why Scottish industry has not utilized such research organizations more fully. Dr. Cummings himself urged that the technical colleges might make a greater contribution towards industrial research in Scotland, and pointed to the Joint Research Council established in Manchester as a pattern that might be followed in other industrial areas. From Prof. R. Hay, also of the Royal Technical College, Glasgow, came the further suggestion for a Scottish industrial research institution on the lines of the Mellon Institute; and some dissatisfaction with the present situation also pervades Dr. Wightman's review of the work of Scottish research institutions issued under the title “Science in Scotland”.

Science in Scotland

Under the title “Science in Scotland”, Dr. W. P. H. Wightman gives a very readable account of the development and work of the Rowett Research Institute in Animal Nutrition, the Macaulay Institute for Soil Research, the Moredun Institute of the Animal Diseases Research Association, the Institute of Animal Genetics, the Hannah Dairy Research Institute, the Torry Research Station for fishery research and the Scottish Society for Research in Plant Breeding (“Science in Scotland: the Work of the Scottish Research Institutions”, by Dr. W. P. H. Wightman. Published for Scottish Convention. Pp. 56. Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1947. 2s. net). Some of the achievements of these research institutions are indicated, while in a final chapter the foundation of the Seaweed Research Association is noted and the establishment of a Scottish Forest Products Research Station and of a Sea Loch Development Association is suggested. Dr. Wightman is not convinced as to the advisability of separate Scottish institutions for most manufacturing traditional industries, and suggests that the principles guiding the establishment of distinctive Scottish research institutions should be in the main the development of predominant Scottish resources; the special problems arising out of Scottish customs and conditions; the need for economy in time for consultation even at the cost of duplicating overhead charges; and the appeal to national enthusiasm and local interest.

Research and Development in Scotland

SOME further notes on "Scientific Research in Scotland" are contributed by Mr. R. H. S. Robertson to Discovery of October, to some extent amplifying those in Bulletin No. 3 of the Scottish Reconstruction Committee (see Nature, August 12, p. 205). Some reference is made to the research stations already established in Scotland such as the Maoaulay Institute, the Rowett Institute and the Fisheries Research Station at Torry, but no fresh evidence is advanced in favour of the formation of a new Scottish research station or branch of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. What is required is rather more attention to local conditions and problems and more effective liaison with the research boards and stations of the Department, whether they are located in Scotland or elsewhere. Modification or adaptation of the Portal house may be as important to suit conditions in Devon or Cornwall as to suit those in Scotland. To duplicate the work of the Building Research Station when the first need is a large all-round expansion of research would be both wasteful and inefficient. The national research stations, wherever located, should be strengthened so as to be capable of dealing with the development of national resources, whether they are found in Cornwall or Durham, Glamorgan or Buchan. In regard to the location of industry, Mr. Robertson is on firmer ground, and his, paper emphasizes the need for action on the lines of the Barlow Report and as foreshadowed in the White Paper on "Employment Policy".

Research and Development in Scotland

A MEMORANDUM, "Chemical Research and Development in Scotland", by R. H. S. Robertson issued as Bull No. 3 (March 1944) by the Scottish Reconstruction Committee urges the need for chemical and physical research and development in Scotland, stressing particularly housing research and research in relation to hydro-electricity, the lack of trained personnel in Scotland and the inadequacy of present facilities. The memorandum suggests the formation of a Scottish raw materials department under the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, with a wider field of activities than a development branch of the Geological Survey which would be restricted to the study of minerals, including peat. This department should co-ordinate every stage of development from survey to production and carry out the experimental work which existing organizations are not equipped to do, as well as serve as an institution for giving additional training to the technical men who will develop and eventually run the new industries. Apart from its references to seaweed and peat, the memorandum gives very little indication of what materials call for the creation of a new department to investigate Scottish resources. Neglect of those resources will be readily admitted, but it is n t clear from this memorandum why their investigation and development could not be undertaken as part of the general national research effort—why, for example, separate Scottish research into housing is required.

Iron and steel industrial research council. Midland, Northern and scottish coke research committees

Journal of the Society of Chemical IndustryVolume 49, Issue 16 p. 320-321 Article Iron and steel industrial research council. Midland, Northern and scottish coke research committees First published: 18 April 1930 https://doi.org/10.1002/jctb.5000491603AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume49, Issue1618 April 1930Pages 320-321 RelatedInformation