Seas and coasts are an important source of food, and also provide jobs in the fishing industry and ecotourism. The UK supports internationally important populations of seabirds and marine life. The two main 2020VISION seas assignments focused on ecotourism in the Inner Hebrides and on the sustainable pelagic mackerel fisheries of the Shetlands. The UK's seas hold more than 8000 wildlife species, including globally important numbers of grey seals and gannets.
Alex Mustard / 2020VISION / Pink shrimp (Pandalus montagui), Loch Carron, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, UK, April
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Alex Mustard / 2020VISION / Nudibranch (Polycera quadrilineata) feeding on sea mat (bryozoan) growing on kelp frond. Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK. June.
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Alex Mustard / 2020VISION / Scuba diver exploring a sea cave beneath Giants Legs, Bressay, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK
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Linda Pitkin / 2020VISION / Blue jellyfish (Cyanea lamarckii), feeding on small plankton, Lundy Island Marine Conservation Zone, Devon, England, UK, May.
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Alex Mustard / 2020VISION / A captive Yellow / Spiny seahorse (Hippocampus guttulatus) attached to plastic seagrass, Weymouth Sealife Centre, Dorset, England, UK.
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Alex Mustard / 2020VISION / Group of Jewel anemones (Corynactis viridis) photographed under blue light to show their fluorescence, Plymouth Sound, Devon, UK, July
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Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Pair of Gannets (Morus bassanus) mutual preening, Bass Rock, Firth of Forth, Scotland, UK, June. Photographer quote: 'I never get tired of watching gannets. This pair who momentarily lined up in perfe...
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John MacPherson / 2020VISION / Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) two breaching in evening light, Moray Firth, Inverness-shire, Scotland, UK, August, sequence 2/2. Photographer quote: 'A day of overcast cloud cleared in the la...
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Mark Hamblin / 2020VISION / Coastal landscape at sunset, near Elgol, Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, UK, October 2010. Did you know? Skye has good biodiversity for an island, with coastal, heather and highland ecologies.
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Alex Mustard / 2020VISION / Group of orange and white Plumose anemones (Metridium senile) with Moon jellyfish (Aurilia aurita) overhead in a sealoch, Loch Long, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK, June
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Alex Mustard / 2020VISION / White nudibranch (Eubranchus farrani) on kelp frond, Lunna Kirk, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK, June
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Alex Mustard / 2020VISION / RF- Rear view of Basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) feeding on plankton, visible as white dots on water surface near island of Coll, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, UK. June. (This image may be licensed eit...
