The company, an arm of HR Wallingford, will manage the North Sea "check point", one of number of sea basin marine databases being built as part of the EC DG Mare initiative, designed "to unleash public sector marine data and direct it to support marine policy and developments in the blue economy".
"We are looking at seven marine management challenges, for example how do we determine the best place to site an offshore wind farm or quantity of fish caught in the basin," says HR Walllingford business manager Keiran Millard.
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