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Abacus Seafoods is a modern factory with a first-class work force, but it will be the first in a blizzard of closures in the fish processing sector unless the minister can take action to help that sector.Given that many of the factors that adversely affect the fish processing sector are under Government control, what strategy does the minister have to help the workers of Mintlaw, and other fish processing workers in Scotland?
We need both industries—salmon farming exports high-quality farmed fish and the wild fish industry is the great importer of angling tourists, who are notably high spenders.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 November 2000
The number employed in the processing of fish, including farmed fish, was:19978,80019988,30019998,600Estimates of jobs dependent on fishing are not made routinely.The table below shows combined government and European funding under FIFG.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive why a Ministerial Statement was not made to announce the new safety improvement scheme for the fishing industry. The intention to establish a new Scottish Seafishing Safety Scheme was first announced by John Home Robertson during the Fisheries Debate on 8 December last year.
That means that issues such as those that John Scott touched on, such as rural unemployment, can be addressed in conjunction with conservation.We should examine SSSIs from a positive perspective and consider that conservation can work in tandem with farming, forestry and fishing. For God's sake, let us not think about ploughing under all the land in Scotlan...
That means that issues such as those that John Scott touched on, such as rural unemployment, can be addressed in conjunction with conservation.We should examine SSSIs from a positive perspective and consider that conservation can work in tandem with farming, forestry and fishing. For God's sake, let us not think about ploughing under all the land in Scotlan...