Current status: Answered by Sarah Boyack on 6 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many staff are employed by Fisheries Research Services at (a) Marine Laboratory Aberdeen and (b) Freshwater Laboratory Faskally, also broken down by grade.
Staff numbers and gradeswithin Fisheries Research Services are as follows:
| Grades | FRS Marine Laboratory | FRS Freshwater Laboratory |
| A Grades | 81 | 13 |
| B Grades | 192 | 25 |
| C Grades | 25 | 5 |
| SCS | 2 | 0 |
| Total | 300 | 43 |