Award of 0326H - Charter for East Coast Tracking Array

Scottish ministers through the Marine Directorate (MD) invites tenders from suitable vessels to undertake the deployment of 13 acoustic listening stations in two areas, firstly the Firth of Forth and secondly the Tay estuary of Scotland.The moorings enable effective monitoring of migratory fish. These moorings extend no more than 2 meters from the sea bed, have no surface buoy and are normally recovered these via an acoustic release mechanism. On occasion this fails and there is a need to recover the unit via an ROV operated from a vessel.