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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.

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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 a specialist environmental consultancy. We are dedicated to helping projects that are important to people and nature succeed, and leaving a positive environmental legacy doing so.

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.

Latest News

New Bat Guidance for Onshore Wind Turbines

The new guidance ‘BATS AND ONSHORE WIND TURBINES: SURVEY, ASSESSMENT AND MITIGATION’ has been issued by SNH.

This guidance changes the requirements for bat surveys, assessment, mitigation and monitoring for onshore wind farm sites. In particular, in provides a detailed risk assessment method to establish if turbine curtailment is required to mitigate bat mortaility from collision with blades.

Read our summary note of the key points that developers should be aware of for their projects.

Please see here for the link to the full SNH guidance: https://www.nature.scot/bats-and-onshore-wind-turbines-survey-assessment-and-mitigation

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MACARTHUR GREEN’S MARINE RENEWABLES RESEARCH PROGRAMME

With The Crown Estate recently announcing their proposed plans for Round 4 offshore wind leasing, it is a good time to provide an update on the marine ornithological research work MacArthur Green is supporting.

Since 2011, MacArthur Green has supported 8 PhD research projects. The aim is to reduce uncertainty over ornithological impacts of marine renewable projects by improving evidence-based decision making.

To deliver these research projects, we are working with key organisations from academia, government and industry. By producing this important research, we will also be contributing to the training of future skilled ornithological scientist in the field, who will hopefully go on to work in marine renewables. For more detail on the research projects, please read our update 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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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.