Marine & Estuarine

The marine environment, historically abused for its wealth of resources is now being recognised as a valuable ecosystem, a resource that needs to be conserved.

If your project involves the marine or coastal environment you may have to fulfil certain requirements to ensure protection of this delicate ecosystem.

The development of coastal works such as ports, marinas and sea defences have the potential to create detrimental ecological effects on coastal and marine ecosytems. Our experience allows us to provide methods to minimise against such negative impacts.

We offer a bespoke service if your project is affected by marine ecological issues as well as a number of conservation based services.

Marine Mammal Surveying & Monitoring - including

Otolith Sampling to assess feeding preferences, Photographic Identification for population monitoring, Bioacoustics and Telemetary Studies to assess marine mammal presence/absence, distribution and migratory patterns.

Intertidal Surveys - including:

Biotope Mapping, Core Sampling & Zonation Studies.

Estuarine Surveys - including:

Macrophyte, Invertebrate Studies & post works monitoring.

Saltmarsh & Saline Lagoons:

Fisheries, Invertebrate Recruitment Studies & Management.

Ecological Assessment of Coastal Protection Schemes:

Bespoke services to assess and mitigate against negative ecological effects.