Figure 4.1
Summer (Top) and Winter (Bottom) Survey Tracks Flown Within and Beyond the 12 nm Boundary in May to August 2009 and November 2009 to March 2010 (Source: Macleod and Sparling (2011))

Figure 4.2
Seagreen Firth of Forth Round 3 Survey Area (Source: Sparling (2012))

Figure 4.3
Strip Transects at 2 km Spacing for Digital Aerial Surveys Across the Proposed Development Aerial Survey Area (March 2019 to April 2021)

Figure 5.1
European Sites Designated for Protection of Marine Mammals Within the Regional Marine Mammal Study Area

Figure 6.1
Harbour Porpoise Distribution and Group Size During Historical Aerial Surveys Across All Seasons from May 2009 to March 2010. Source: Grellier and Lacey (2011)

Figure 6.2
Positions of Harbour Porpoise Sightings Across All Seasons During the Firth of Forth Round 3 Boat-based Surveys from May 2010 to November 2011 (Sparling, 2012)

Figure 6.3
Monthly Encounter Rate of Harbour Porpoise within the Proposed Development marine mammal study area (Aerial Survey Data March 2019 to April 2021)

Figure 6.4
Management Unit (MU) for Harbour Porpoise

Figure 6.5
SCANS II Survey Blocks

Figure 6.6
SCANS III Survey Blocks

Figure 6.7
JCP Phase III Areas of Interest

Figure 6.8
Management Unit for Bottlenose Dolphin

Figure 6.9
Annual Estimates of the East Coast of Scotland Bottlenose Dolphin Population from 1990 to 2015 with 9% Highest Posterior Density Intervals (HPDI). Source: Cheney et al., 2018

Figure 6.10
Encounter Locations from All Years (1997 to 2013) in the Tayside and Fife Data Collection Area as Defined in the Quick et al. (2014) Dolphin Project Database

Figure 6.11
Bottlenose Dolphin Distribution within the 2 m to 20 m Depth Contour

Figure 6.12
White-Beaked Dolphins Distribution and Group Size During Historical Aerial Surveys Across All Seasons from May 2009 to March 2010, Source: Grellier and Lacey (2011)

Figure 6.13
Positions of White-Beaked Dolphin Sightings Across All Seasons During Firth of Forth Round 3 Boat Based Surveys from May 2010 to November 2011 (Sparling, 2012)

Figure 6.14
Management Unit (MU) for White-Beaked Dolphin and Minke Whale

Figure 6.15
Positions of Minke Whale Sightings Across All Seasons During Firth of Forth Round 3Boat Based Surveys from May 2010 to November 2011 (Sparling, 2012)

Figure 6.16
Telemetry Tracks for All 25 Harbour Seals that Entered into the Proposed Development Marine Mammal Study Area (Aggregated Data for All Tagged Harbour Seals in the East Scotland MU Between 2001 to 2017)

Figure 6.17
Harbour seal SACs in the East Scotland and Northeast England MUs and Designated Haul Out Sites in the Vicinity of the Proposed Development

Figure 6.18
August Haul Out Counts of Harbour Seals in the East Scotland MU and the Firth of Tay and Eden Estuary SAC. Source: Sinclair (2022)

Figure 6.19
Annual August Haul Out Counts of Harbour Seals in the Northeast England MU. Source: Sinclair (2022)

Figure 6.20
The Distribution and Predicted Number of Harbour Seal in 5 km x 5 km Grid Cells (Mean at Sea Usage) in the Vicinity of the Proposed Development. Source: Carter et al. (2020)

Figure 6.21
Telemetry Tracks for All 59 Adult Grey Seals that Entered into the Proposed Development Marine Mammal Study Area (Coloured by the MU Tagged In)

Figure 6.22
Telemetry Tracks for all 38 Pup/Juvenile Grey Seals that Entered into the Proposed Development Marine Mammal Study Area (Coloured by the MU Tagged In)

Figure 6.23
Monthly Encounter Rate of Grey Seal Including Seal Species

Figure 6.24
Grey Seal SACs in the East Scotland and North-East England MUs and Designated Haul-Out Sites in the Vicinity of the Proposed Development

Figure 6.25
The Distribution and Predicted Number of Grey Seal in 5 km x 5 km Grid Cells (Mean) in the Vicinity of the Proposed Development. Source: Carter et al. (2020)

Tables ▼

Table 3.1
Summary of Key Consultation Undertaken of Relevance to Marine Mammal Baseline Characterisation

Table 4.1
Key Sources of Information for the Marine Mammal Baseline Characterisation

Table 4.2
Summary of Survey Data

Table 5.1
SACs Designated for the Protection of Marine Mammals within the Regional Marine Mammal Study Area

Table 5.2
Summary of Cetacean Species Found in the Regional Marine Mammal Study Area. Sources: Weir (2001), Hammond et al. (2013), Hammond et al. (2021) and NMPI (2021)

Table 5.3
Monthly Raw Sightings Data (Number of Animals) (Uncorrected for Effort) Across the Aerial Survey Area

Table 5.4
Estimated Densities Based on the Aerial Survey Data (March 2019 to April 2021)

Table 6.1
Harbour Porpoise Modelled Absolute Density Estimates by Season for Proposed Development Array Area Including Lower Confidence Intervals (LCI) and Upper Confidence Intervals (UCI). Mean Seasonal Abundance is Scaled up to the Proposed Development Array Area Plus ~16 km Buffer

Table 6.2
Approach to Estimating Abundance in Different Sectors for the Firth of Tay and Adjacent Areas Based on Arso Civil et al. (2019) Habitat Preference Map

Table 6.3
Summary of Bottlenose Dolphin Densities for Different Sections Within the Regional Marine Mammal Study Area

Table 6.4
Grey Seal Plus Seal Species Modelled Absolute Density Estimates by Season for Proposed Development Including LCI and UCI. Abundance Estimates Are Scaled Up to the Proposed Development Plus ~16 km Buffer

Table 7.1
Summary of Marine Mammal Receptors to be Considered in the Marine Mammal EIA Offshore Report Chapter Together with Relevant Densities and Reference Populations

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