Seafish: Request for quotation for a commercial scallop fishing vessel hire to assist with scientific research surveys to determine the status of scallop stocks in the English Channel, North Sea and Celtic Sea

Seafish is collaborating with Cefas and industry to carry out the third consecutive year of dredge surveys as part of an ongoing research project in selected king scallop fisheries located in the English Channel, Celtic Sea and North Sea, with the aim of determining stock status. This project is still in the relatively early stages of reporting and is setting the foundations for long term monitoring and assessment of selected king scallop stocks around English coasts. We are planning to repeat the dredge surveys in 2019 in areas 27.7.e and 27.7.f in early May then a second survey in September (27.7.d and 27.4.b). However, the timing of these surveys and other operational aspects are subje…

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