March 2024

The University of Aberdeen have released two PrePARED reports as part of Task 4.1 and Task 4.2 – read more about these Tasks here.

The reports have been delivered with 1-2 page report summaries in an effort to aid dissemination.

You can find the reports and report summaries on our webpage here.

We spent time this month gathering and reviewing feedback from our AKEM held in February 2024.

A feedback survey was completed by ~27% non-project attendees with the following key feedback received:

• Rated the event an average of 4.3 out of 5 (1 low – 5 high)
• 80% attendees confirmed that the AKEM met their expectations
• Attendees provided information on their highlights of the day – see photo

If you missed the event you can review the slide decks here

This month colleagues have been preparing for survey work being undertaken in the coming months.

In the Moray Firth the PrePARED team will conduct another season of fish tagging in an effort to understand fish movement in and around wind farms.

Following this in the Moray Firth and Firth of Forth, PrePARED science colleagues will conduct acoustic transects through and around wind farms providing important information on pelagic fish distributions around wind farms at varying stages of development.

• Quarter 1 progress meeting allowed full project team to meet and provide updates on their tasks
• Quarter 1 progress report submitted to The Crown Estate – OWEC and will be uploaded here in due course.
• PrePARED colleagues arranging to present at EIMR 2024 in April.