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MacArthur Green – Focus on Fish

MacArthur Green set up a Fisheries Team in 2017 to add to our environmental consultancy offering of ecology, ornithology and hydrology.

MacArthur Green's Fisheries team focus on providing specialist services including:

Electrofishing;
Environmental Impact Assessment;
Fish rescue, fish removal and fish relocation; and
Fish habitat surveys.

For further information on the services, particularly electrofishing and fish rescue, can be found on our Fisheries page.

Or please just give our fisheries expert Michael Hill a call to talk about your fisheries needs.

A Wee Bit More About Us

MacArthur Green set up in 2009. Since then none of our clients have been refused planning consent for ecology, ornithology, hydrology and peat.

Read here to find out how we came into being, and how we have grown from a one-man-band to helping some of Scotland’s biggest infrastructure projects.

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MacArthur Green Approach

We provide ecology, ornithology, hydrology, peat depth and peat analysis services throughout the life cycle of a development. With any advice we give, we always adopt a holistic approach in order to ensure apposite and robust advice for our clients.

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About Us

MacArthur Green is an award winning, specialist environmental consultancy, dedicated to helping projects that are important to people and nature succeed.

We work with our clients to provide expert ornithology, ecology, hydrology, fisheries, peat survey and analysis services, and related policy advice.

Our respected in-house team have a unique skill set which covers the commercial, legal and technical dimensions of development to provide high quality pragmatic and innovative advice.

Our strength as an environmental consultancy lies in the fact that we have the flexibility and dynamism of a small and personable company, combined with the commercial know-how and professionalism required by our clients.

We have the pleasure of being the trusted advisors to a diverse range of clients including developers, regulators and statutory agencies.

We are based in Glasgow and work throughout Scotland, the UK and internationally.

Careers with MacArthur Green

Find all of our current job opportunities here.

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Improving accuracy of collision risk models

One of the key environmental issues facing offshore wind farm developers is the cumulative impact that offshore wind farms may have on seabird populations as a consequence of collision mortality. Collision risk models estimate numbers of collisions that may occur at night using a correction factor applied to daytime bird flux data. These correction factors are precautionary rather than evidence-based, so overestimate actual collision risk.

We have now published the first evidence-based assessment of nocturnal flight activity of a seabird species that is a high priority at North Sea offshore wind farms. Data from several tracking studies of gannets in the breeding and nonbreeding seasons, and of immature gannets, show that nocturnal flight activity of gannets is indeed much lower than the values presently used in collision risk models. Using evidence-based values in cumulative and...
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MacArthur Green Support 4 PhD Studentships on Marine Renewables and Sea Birds

We are passionate about marine renewables and sea birds, and we are delighted to announce that MacArthur Green is now supporting four PhD studentships in this area. Each of these students are aiming to advance knowledge in this area, and reduce uncertainty for future marine renewable developments.

We are working with an number of key partners to deliver this research including; Glasgow University, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), MASTS, UHI (ERI Thurso), Leeds University and Vattenfall.

We thought it was about time that we let everyone know a bit more about our PhD team, and what they are going to be looking at:
1. Glasgow University Scholarship; Alex Robbins ‘Marine wet renewables and seabirds.’ University supervisor Dr David Bailey.
2. NERC CASE Studentship, Glasgow University; Julie Miller...
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MacArthur Green Auk research project selected by Vattenfall backed EOWDC

MacArthur Green’s auk research project has been selected as part of a multi-million pound research programme based in Aberdeen Bay.

Funded by the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre, run by Vattenfall, these projects will put Scotland at the forefront of research and development in the industry.

Bob Furness and Mark Trinder will be measuring connectivity between auk special protection area populations and offshore wind farms, and tracking the non-breeding season movements of adult auks. The project aims to demonstrate that this could reduce future uncertainty in impact assessments and improve understanding of how auks engage and co-exist with Offshore Wind Farms. This project will fund a PhD student to work with the research team.

Professor Furness (Principal Ornithologist at MacArthur Green) said,

‘It is very exciting to be able to deploy tags...
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