Environmental statement - Flyndre and Cawdor - Maersk Oil
Environmental statement - Flyndre and Cawdor - Maersk Oil
Environmental statement - Flyndre and Cawdor - Maersk Oil
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<strong>Flyndre</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Cawdor</strong> <strong>Environmental</strong> Statement<br />
Section 3 <strong>Environmental</strong> Baseline<br />
Month/Species J F M A M J J A S O N D Nursery<br />
Lemon sole<br />
Norway pout<br />
Sprat<br />
Mackerel<br />
Haddock<br />
Whiting<br />
Spawning Peak Spawning Nursery<br />
Table 3‐11 Summary of spawning <strong>and</strong> nursery activity for some commercial fish species found in<br />
area of the development (Coull et al., 1998).<br />
Spawning <strong>and</strong> nursery areas cannot be defined with absolute accuracy <strong>and</strong> are found to shift over<br />
time. The spawning <strong>and</strong> nursery grounds of some commercially important species within the North<br />
Sea are shown in Figures 3‐6, 3‐7 <strong>and</strong> 3‐8. Given that spawning <strong>and</strong> nursery grounds do shift over<br />
time it is worth noting that species such as cod <strong>and</strong> whiting have identified spawning grounds less<br />
than 90 km south of the proposed development area while nursery grounds for mackerel, cod <strong>and</strong><br />
s<strong>and</strong>eels have been identified less than 60 km to the east.<br />
Figure 3‐11 Lemon sole <strong>and</strong> sprat spawning grounds.<br />
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