Membership Benefits
SFCC provides a valued service to its members including:
Regular Communication
- ​Monthly news updates together with the Fisheries Management Scotland news update
- Access to the Wild Fisheries Forum and shared events calendar
Training
- Bespoke fisheries data collection training courses
- Access to online /e-learning programmes in computer mapping (GIS) and scale reading
- Phone-based GIS support and tuition
Electro-fishing Database Provision
- Unlimited use of our online database which holds over 30,000 electrofishing surveys
- Telephone, online and video tutorial support
- Secure storage and data sharing facilities
- Automated fish density calculations
- Automated PDF report generation and spreadsheet exporting
One Scotland Mapping Agreement Data Access
SFCC gained access to this agreement on a 12 month contractual basis due to our close working relationship with Marine Scotland.
Mapping data available includes the entire Ordnance Survey data catalogue
Computer Mapping Data Supply
SFCC also promotes access to licensed datasets relevant to the fisheries environment including:
- Rivers, lochs and catchments
- Aerial Imagery
- Digital Terrain Model
- Landcover and landuse
- British Geological Survey
Access to adopted SFCC data collection protocols
- Introductory electro-fishing training
- Team leader electro-fishing training
- Habitat survey training
- Access to further research protocols adopted by SFCC
Added value of membership
- Annual SFCC biologist's and associates meeting attendance
- Involvement opportunities in national-scale research projects such as; SFCC, (2014) and Malcolm et al., (2015).
- Access to the Freshwater Laboratory library through appointment with SFCC
Current SFCC Members
