Should we be looking at using alternative materials to plastics in fishing gear? Would you be willing to pay more for seafood caught this way? Please share you views with us! shorturl.at/IITbz #PlasticFreeFishing #FISP Marine Institute Isles of Scilly IFCA Defra UK

📢 Job opportunity to join our amazing Team plymouth.ac.uk/research/appli… at University of Plymouth We are looking for someone to support our Fish, Elasmobranch and crustacean tagging and tracking research, and our underwater video (ROV,BRUV,Pelagicam,Towed) #MPA monitoring work 🦈🐟🦀🎣

🚨🚨🚨Come join our awesome team University of Plymouth MBERC - see link to job application portal below 🦈🐟🦞🦀

My 7th year of Scilly Pelagics & it’s not often I’ve been left speechless. For several minutes this evening most of the boat stood in silence as 100+ bluefin tuna formed a frenzying vortex alongside us. The hordes of rare & scarce seabirds aside… this was special!! 🐟🐟🐟

The mountain is cascading with water. Not quite a record breaking year yet, but the rainfall this month is remarkable CSAG UCT Makes for impressive viewing! 🌧️🌧️

Great shot, great comp! 🏄‍♂️

Gravity? Never heard of it.

40 years and not finished yet! Great work Berwickshire Marine Reserve 🐟🐳🦞

Fun day promoting new paper - Dr Thomas Stamp using historical ecology - 1871 French fishing map and acoustic telemetry to show regenerative effects of farm and value to commercially valuable lobsters 🦞 and crabs 🦀 interview on bbc Spotlight tonight 🦀 bbc.com/news/articles/…

🔔Our new paper combines old maps with new tracking tech applied to crustaceans 🦞 🌟Together they highlight the regenerative potential of mussel farms - that can enhance seabed & benefit commercially valuable species 📖 Listen below or read the paper: tinyurl.com/Restorative-mu…

New OA paper alert: Restorative function of offshore longline mussel farms with ecological... sciencedirect.com/science/articl… As a result of industrial fishing practices seabed habitats have fundamentally changed over prolonged time periods Offshore Shellfish University of Plymouth 1/3

Here we use a combination of approaches (#SDM #acoustictelemetry #SIA) to demonstrate that longline mussel farming can physically augment and improve seabed habitat to support commercially important crustacean populations in otherwise unsuitable habitat. 3/3

Our Offshore Shellfish research was on BBC Breakfast this morning - lead author Dr Thomas Stamp sciencedirect.com/.../pii/S00489… tracks crustaceans in offshore mussel farm to show fisheries and conservation benefits - watch from 6:24 am bbc.co.uk/.../epi.../m00… University of Plymouth Biological and Marine Sciences

Trying to decipher patterns in ecological systems? Long-term data series are a must...here's cumulative rainfall data for past 3 winters in Cape Town (coloured lines - 2024 not complete). Interannual variation at the extreme. Other grey lines show preceding 40 years...🌧️CSAG UCT

🚨📣 PLUS... ...follow the link for a PDF of the journal article, as well as a collection of relevant teaching resources including lesson plan ideas , applicable scientific literature and a text-to-speech version for students with disabilities 🙌 sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/can-s…