Question reference: S5W-25073
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 3 September 2019
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Current status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 18 September 2019
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-05394 by Roseanna Cunningham on 20 December 2016, for what reason statutory protection of the freshwater pearl mussel population in the unnamed water, river X, has still not been implemented.
Answer
We are carefully considering advice from Scottish Natural Heritage on this issue, including on the Scottish suite of Special Areas of Conservation for freshwater pearl mussel.