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25 March 2026
Salmon farming in Scotland
Salmon farming .
Salmon farming .
salmon farming, fish farms, sea lice, mortality rates.
Committees
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25 March 2026
Salmon farming in Scotland: Publication of SEPA’s Sea Lice Regulatory Framework
Salmon farming 25 March 2026.
salmon farming, fish farms, sea lice, mortality rates.
Committees
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25 March 2026
Salmon farming in Scotland: Assessment of progress
Salmon farming 25 March 2026.
salmon farming, fish farms, sea lice, mortality rates.
Committee reports
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25 March 2026
Legacy Report of the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee, Session 6 - Statutory obligations and fisheries management plans
The Committee notes the Cabinet Secretary's update to the Committee, dated 20 November 2025, which referred to the current consultation on 11 draft FMPs for demersal fish stocks and stated that “a significant amount of work on the remaining Scottish-led FMPs, including two Nephrops and eight pelagic stocks, has already been completed and consultations will ...
Committee reports
Date published:
25 March 2026
Annual report of the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee 2025-26 - Salmon farming in Scotland – 12-month follow-up
The review focused on four themes:
fish health and welfare.
environmental impacts.
interactions between wild and farmed salmon.
farm consents and planning.
Committee reports
Date published:
25 March 2026
Legacy Report of the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee, Session 6 - Management of inshore fisheries
As mentioned earlier in this report, the Committee closed Petition PE1951 asking for the Scottish Government to reinstate an inshore coastal limit on the use of dredge and trawl fishing gears on the basis that it would incorporate this issue in the planned inquiry.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 March 2026
S6W-44435
The Scottish Government has no plans to review the Scottish Environment Protection Agency’s (SEPA) enforcement powers in relation to aquaculture.SEPA already has a number of options in its enforcement toolkit, ranging from informal advice and guidance to the use of formal enforcement measures including final warning letters, statutory notices, monetary penalties, and reports to the Procurator Fiscal recommending prosecution.For the purpose of environmental protection, SEPA places licence conditions on marine fish...
Committee reports
Date published:
25 March 2026
Legacy Report of the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee, Session 6 - Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland
This Committee agreed in 2023 to undertake a follow-up inquiry into salmon farming to take stock of progress in delivering the key findings from REC Committee's 2018 report across four key themes—
fish health and welfare
environmental impacts
interactions between wild and farmed salmon
salmon farm consents and planning.
Committee reports
Date published:
25 March 2026
Legacy Report of the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee, Session 6
Petition PE1951 Reinstate inshore coastal limit on the use of dredge and trawl fishing gears
Petition PE1951 was lodged in 2022 by Alistair Bally Philp on behalf of the Scottish Creel Fishermen's Federation—
Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to re-introduce a variation of the historic 3 mile coastal limit on the use of mobile dredge and bottom-trawling fishing gears to support:
the recovery of Scotland's inshore demersal fin-fish population and the wider ecosystem
opportunities to optimise the social, economic and environmental returns within the new spatially managed area
increases in fishing jobs and the revitalisation of coastal communities.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
25 March 2026
Resources and Waste Common Framework - Key issues
The Strategy states that the Scottish Government will work with the other nations in the UK and "continue to prioritise packaging, waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), batteries, end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) and end-of-life fishing gear". In addition, the Scottish Government states "we will prioritise textiles (clothing), mattresses and furnitur...
