There are 12,515 results relating to "fishing"
Order by
|
SPICe briefings
Date published:
20 August 2021
Marine and Fisheries: Subject Profile - The Scottish Crown Estate
The Scottish Crown Estate includes leasing of the seabed out to 12 nautical miles, Rockall, 37,000 hectares of rural land; rights to most naturally-occurring gold and silver; and approximately half of Scotland’s foreshore including 5,800 licensed moorings; 750 aquaculture sites; and salmon fishing rights.1Scottish Government. (n.d.)
SPICe briefings
Date published:
20 August 2021
Marine and Fisheries: Subject Profile - Seaweed aquaculture
These include:
damage to seabed habitats and seabed shading
impact on marine species (e.g. entanglement of marine mammals, disturbance of migration routes or breeding/feeding grounds)
disturbance of tidal currents and water circulation
impact on genetic diversity of wild seaweed
spread of disease/pathogens
introduction of invasive species
pollution from ropes or other equipment
localised nutrient depletion
visual impacts
displacement of other marine users (e.g. Commercial fishing...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
19 August 2021
Animal health and welfare - Subject Profile - Aquaculture
Scottish Ministers have the power to appoint fish health inspectors under the fish health legislation.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
19 August 2021
Animal health and welfare - Subject Profile - Seals and acoustic deterrent devices
Ending the legal shooting of seals by Scottish fish farms
Until 2021, it was possible for fish farms to shoot seals, under license, under the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010, to protect the health and welfare of farmed fish, or to prevent serious damage to fisheries or fish farms.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
19 August 2021
Environment: Subject Profile - The freshwater environment
In the consultation, SEPA prioritised the most significant water management issues for the third RBMP cycle as:
water scarcity
waste water discharges
rural land use
restoring resilience in physically modified rivers
man-made barriers to fish migration
hydropower
fish farming and wild fish interactions
invasive non-native species
CAR framework
Discharges to the water environment, abstractions, and physical works in rivers and lochs can threaten the water environment.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
19 August 2021
Animal health and welfare - Subject Profile
Scottish Ministers have the power to appoint fish health inspectors under the fish health legislation.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
19 August 2021
Environment: Subject Profile - Wildlife crime
Examples of types of wildlife crime include:
Illegal persecution of birds of prey, badgers and bats
Damage to Sites of Special Scientific Interest
Illegal use of traps and snares and possession of illegal pesticides
Poaching e.g. fish, deer
Hunting with dogs including hare coursing and fox hunting
Freshwater pearl mussel fishing
Wildlife crimes can have a serious impact on the conservation status of species, resulting for example in the loss of local bird of prey populations or the extinction of freshwater pearl mussels from certain rivers.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
19 August 2021
Environment: Subject Profile - Blue carbon
Scotland's Marine Assessment 2020 concluded that disturbance caused by towed, bottom-contacting fishing was widespread across most Scottish Marine Regions and Offshore Marine regions.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
19 August 2021
Land Use and Rural Policy: Subject Profile - In figures
In remote rural areas of Scotland, the public sector accounts for the largest proportion of employment, at 17%, closely followed by ‘accommodation and food services’, ‘agriculture, forestry and fishing’, and ‘financial and other activities’ which each account for 15% of employment (see Figure 2).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
19 August 2021
Land Use and Rural Policy: Subject Profile - Food policy
It outlines an aim to double the value of food exports and turnover within farming, fishing and food and drink by 2030.
Some food and drink sectors were heavily impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and the end of the Brexit transition period.
