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We hope that there would be a request first, followed by an evidence-based request, rather than simply a fishing exercise. A lot of information is confidential, and there is sometimes a need to keep it that way.
If I give you the social contract document, it will give you a clue about what we were fishing for. The simple line is that we want to get the best level of service for the lowest possible cost, which is quite a tension.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
5 November 2019
It highlights that fishers are required to supply numbers of under and over-sized fish by species, for the first 20 traps deployed each week on their Fish 1 forms.
The Scottish Government supports sustainable salmon farming and sustainable wild Atlantic salmon fishing; both sectors are dependent on the environment and contribute to the Scottish rural economy.
The agreement would permit boats, particularly inshore boats that fish in the Clyde and on the other side of the Mull of Kintyre, to register in Northern Ireland and to sell their produce in Northern Ireland.
The agreement would permit boats, particularly inshore boats that fish in the Clyde and on the other side of the Mull of Kintyre, to register in Northern Ireland and to sell their produce in Northern Ireland.