Habitats and Species Surveys in the Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters

Marine Scotland Science has been collecting video and photographic stills from the Pentland Firth and Orkney Islands as part of a wider marine survey programme to inform marine renewable planning. These on-going surveys began in 2008 and since then data from over 233 stations have been collected. The conservation importance of the species and habitats present and their vulnerability to marine renewable development have been assessed in a series of reports by Scottish Natural Heritage.