Review of the Environmental Impacts of Scottish Salmon Farming - call for written evidence (deadline of 8 February)

 

The Scottish Parliament's Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform (ECCLR) Committee has issued a call out for views from members of the public on a new report on the environmental impacts of salmon farming with a deadline of 8 February.

 

 

Read the report - "Review of the Environmental Impacts of Salmon Farming in Scotland" - published by the Scottish Parliament in January 2018: 

 

 

Here's a Tweet by the Scottish Parliament's Rural Economy & Connectivity Committee:

 

 

 

Written evidence will be posted online on the Scottish Parliament's web-site.

 

 

Read more about the Scottish Parliament's inquiry into salmon farming online here - including oral evidence given on 30 January by the Scottish Association of Marine Science and on 6 February by the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation, Scottish Environment Link, Friends of the Sound of Jura, Loch Duart, Scottish Environment Protection Agency, the Scottish Government and Highland Council.

 

 Read online here

 

 

Read more via:

Daily Mail: "Thousands of fish thrown in a truck - and troubling new questions for salmon farms"

The Scotsman: "Fish farms increase could lead to more seals being shot"

Press Release: "Scottish Salmon Farming 101 - Scottish Parliament inquiry opens 'in early 2018'"

Scottish Salmon Farming 101

Media Backgrounder: Inquiry into Salmon Farming by the Scottish Parliament

"Parliamentary Question: to ask the Scottish Government how many farmed salmon have died in each year since 2012"

"First Minister questioned on leaking wastes from morts - call for a moratorium from Greens"

"Campaigners say 'no more salmon farms' after disease on Lewis kills 125,000 fish"

 

Download a copy of the House of Commons 1989-90 Agriculture Committee 4th Report Fish Farming