Presentation by Dr Lea-Anne Henry at the 2nd Annual Science Meeting of the Marine Alliance for Science and Technology Scotland.

1. An offshore resource of biological
diversity, ecosystem processes and services
Lea-Anne Henry, Heriot-Watt University
Peter Chaniotis, Joint Nature Conservation Committee
J. Murray Roberts, Heriot-Watt University
www.cmbb.hw.ac.uk

2.  OSPAR list of threatened and/or declining species and habitats
Rosemary Bank
Anton Dohrn
Rockall Hebrides
Trough Terrace

3. Biophysical
Fish Marine
mammals
Benthos
1. Do components support Priority Marine Features (PMFs)?
2. Does one component enhance another?

4. Roberts et al. 1974; Xing & Davies 1998; Burrows & Thorpe 1999; New & Smythe-Wright 2001; Hall & Davies 2005; Neat et al.
2008
 Topography & internal waves ↑ surface circulation (AD, HT)
 Anti-cyclonic circulation (AD) could ‘focus’ food at the summit
 Internal waves and Taylor columns ↑ vertical mixing downstream (AD)
 Eddies (AD, RB)
 Downwelling (AD)
 Current-shaped sedimentary patterns (all)

5. accelerated current speeds
JNCC
retention mechanisms
Orange roughy (all)
Coral gardens (AD/all?)
hydrodynamic control of food
CRRU
JNCC
Embling 2007; ICES 2007
Atlantic white-sided dolphin (RB)

6. High diversity/lack of endemism
JNCC/JC073
Jacobs et al. 2006; Howell et al. 2010

7. Cold-water coral reefs
JNCC/JC073

8. Deep-sea sponge aggregations
JNCC/JC073

9. Coral gardens
JNCC/JC073

10. Orange roughy
Leafscale gulper shark
JNCC
Oceanlab
Reefs important to life history (all)
Gravid sharks caught with corals:
poss. nursery? (RB)
Blue ling
Grehan et al. 2004; DEFRA 2007; Large et al. 2010
NMS
Spawning habitat (RB)

11.  spawning of mesopelagic and PMF fish species
▪ blue whiting, orange roughy, blue ling, mackerel,
leafscale gulper shark, others
JNCC/ JC073 Changing Oceans Expedition
Dransfield et al. 2005; DEFRA 2007; Neat et al. 2008; Howell et al. 2009; ICES 2010; Large et al. 2010

12. Blue whiting
Fisheries.no
Sowerby’s beaked whale
Blue ling
Long-finned pilot whale
NMS CRRU
ICES 2007; Spitz et al. 2011 Oceanlab

13. Faroe-Shetland Channel
 Topographic
RB
interactions are key
 Migration route to
AD
FSC
HT
 Mating/calving
 MPA network and
conservation Rockall
‘corridors’ Trough
Evans et al. 1997; Pollock et al. 2000; Charif et al. 2001; Weir et al. 2001; Swift et al. 2002; Hastie et al. 2003; Macleod et al.
2003; Reid et al. 2003; Embling 2007; Boisseau et al. 2011; MCR 2011

14. e.g. Taranto et al. 2012
(PLoS One)

15.  Captain/crew and scientists on board the James
Cook Cruise 073 ‘Changing Oceans Expedition’
 Holland I crew
 Richard McLanaghan (MCR)
 Laura Robson (JNCC)
 Kerry Howell (Plymouth)
 ICES WGDEC discussions