Charter for Passive Acoustic Monitoring Servicing

Description

Marine Scotland (MS) invites a tender to provide vessel charter services for the deployment and retrieval of various scientific equipment in Scottish waters. The Scottish Ministers invite tenders to provide vessel charter services for the deployment and retrieval of various scientific equipment in Scottish waters. The Marine Directorate - Science, Evidence, Digital and Data (MD-SEDD) portfolio are seeking tenders from work boats to undertake deployment and recovery of acoustic monitoring equipment. The tender will be for one or more mooring servicing trips in December 2023-January 2024. The work will involve deploying and retrieving underwater passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) equipment, which involves broadband sound recorders and cetacean echolocation detectors. This work will be carried out on behalf of the Marine Directorate of Scottish Government.