Aquaculture calling the shots in scotland

[Utectok]

Sea lice control legislation (to protect the wild salmon) has been rejected by the aquaculture industry.
They have appealed
It appears big business can ignore legal measures to protect wild salmon

a letter submitted to Cabinet Secretaries containing the following exert:

‘There are significant and fundamental issues with these variations. Given the scale and magnitude of our concerns, farming businesses were left with no alternative but to appeal the variation notices. We regret having to take this position. The appeals in no way affect our sector’s commitments around farmed and wild fish interactions, nor our businesses investment in lice management. We continue to operate to all existing agreements and legal obligations in relation to lice management and potential interactions.’

From initial reading of the appeal statements, the common grounds of appeal include the points below. The fish farming sector considers that:
SEPA’s implementation of the Sea Lice Framework through the 2011 Regulations is ultra vires
The Notice is ultra vires on the basis that SEPA have failed to evidence that “the operation of a marine pen fish farm” is within the scope of activities that can be regulated under the 2011 Regulations
The Notice is unlawful on the grounds of procedural unfairness
The Conditions are irrational, disproportionate, and lacking in reasons
The Notice is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights

 

[Freeforester]

A sure fire means of demonstrating the impact of salmon farming on wild fish stocks would be to follow the example of Iceland, and house the fish in tanks on dry land, where the effluent and parasitic burdens can be wholly controlled.

It’s not without good reason and concerns around the impact on both wild fish stocks and the wider marine environment that salmon farming was banned off the South American coastline. The ‘valuable jobs’ created in remote rural coastal communities could better be made in servicing the improved prospects of sport anglers, and the downstream inputs to the hotels etc that those monies would bring.

Instead we have the present situation, all to produce a product which is so compromised in pesticide residual content that in certain Scandinavian countries it carries a government health warning.

 

[Smellydog]

It's a good job they don't use lead or they would be classed as the scourge of the world!

 

[Malxwal]

Yet another way in which our government has completely abused our natural resources, sold off by the pound.

 

[Freeforester]

There was an independent report compiled which was so damning of the industry and its negative impacts that the then Scottish Agriculture and fisheries minister Ross Finnie had it ‘pulled’ on the eve of publication..

 

[sh1kar]

There was an independent report compiled which was so damning of the industry and its negative impacts that the then Scottish Agriculture and fisheries minister Ross Finnie had it ‘pulled’ on the eve of publication..

Such an apt name

 

[Freeforester]

Such an apt name

He was more of a pillock than a pollock.