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Biodiversity supports food production and security: through insect pollination in farming and horticulture; and Scotland’s fishing industry, which depends on resilient and productive seas.
Additionally, the amendment to the 2014 Regulations for the Annan district reinstates a period of catch and release fishing which was previously available in the fishery and would bring the Annan district in line with the other districts in Scotland, which have identified specific periods in the early (closed) season when fishing is allowed but retaining salmon is prohibited.
Ariane Burgess: To ask the Scottish Government what its response is, regarding any potential impact on the environment, to reports that Mowi Scotland, a multi-national fish farming company, has purchased Sanda Island in Argyll and Bute.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is, regarding any potential impact on the environment, to reports that Mowi Scotland, a multi-national fish farming company, has purchased Sanda Island in Argyll and Bute.
Biodiversity supports food production and security: through insect pollination in farming and horticulture; and Scotland’s fishing industry, which depends on resilient and productive seas.
Colin Smyth: To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made on annual reporting of its incentivisation of selective fishing gear and low-impact techniques that the rural affairs secretary committed to commissioning in January 2023.
That seeks to incentivise the use of selective fishing gear in vessels and the use of fishing techniques that have a reduced impact on the environment.