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The public perception is that the SLF represents fat-cat absentee landlords who rent out their land for lots of money, for hunting, shooting and fishing and who own huge tracts of Scotland and do not attend to it.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 November 1999
The Scottish Executive has considered representations from the fishing industry and shares its concern about the continuing need to restrict scallop fishing.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 November 1999
In the circumstances, alteration of the fishing season as suggested would lead to increased exploitation of a diminishing resource, and therefore the Scottish Executive have no plans to extend the autumn fishing season.
It has been suggested that it would be better for us to go to Pentland House for the briefing, rather than for the Sea Fish Industry Authority to come here, as facilities there are better for the presentation that the authority wishes to make.
It is no longer classed as exotic but is classed as endemic, which means that it is handled differently. The fish farmers will not have to slaughter their stock.