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Monitoring plan added to fish farm requirements

Monitoring plan added to fish farm requirements

The Scottish Government is to introduce environmental monitoring plans as a condition of consents for salmon farms.

Five ways aquaculture is innovating its way to sustainable growth

Five ways aquaculture is innovating its way to sustainable growth

Last week’s report on salmon farming by the Scottish Parliament’s Rural Economy and Connectivity committee demanded change to solve industry problems. Here Heather Jones, chief executive of the Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre, outlines some of the work already being done.

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Scottish salmon farmers must raise the bar say MSPs

Scottish salmon farmers must raise the bar say MSPs

MSPs who carried out an inquiry into the future of Scottish salmon farming have called for urgent action to improve and enhance the regulation of the industry but have rejected calls for a moratorium on expansion.

Salmon inquiry ‘will call for tougher regulations’

Salmon inquiry ‘will call for tougher regulations’

A Scottish Parliamentary inquiry into the future of salmon farming will call for extensive changes to its complex regulatory regime, according to a report in yesterday’s Sunday Post.

RSPCA dismay at Holyrood salmon inquiries snub

RSPCA dismay at Holyrood salmon inquiries snub

Animal welfare experts have expressed disappointment after they were denied the opportunity to appear as witnesses at two Scottish Parliamentary inquiries into salmon farming.

Keep rules tight but streamline the system, say fish farmers

Keep rules tight but streamline the system, say fish farmers

Scotland’s salmon farmers want to keep the tough regulations governing the industry because they add to the special reputation – and higher price – their fish have in the global market.