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Date published:
17 January 2025
Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland - Background
Background
The 2018 Farmed Fish Health Framework stated that mortality "has many causes and is a primary area of focus for fish farming businesses” and recognised the “deterioration (in the years to and including 2017) in farmed fish survival in Scotland”.
Committee reports
Date published:
17 January 2025
Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland - Mortality figures and targets
The Committee considered the issue of targets for farmed fish mortality, as committed to in the Farmed Fish Health Framework and welcomed by the REC Committee.
Committee reports
Date published:
17 January 2025
Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland - Background
Farm management and husbandry practices that promote fish welfare are set out in the industry's Code of Good practice for Scottish Finfish Aquaculture.
News
Published:
17 January 2025
Committee calls for immediate timetable to address concerns over the long-term viability of the salmon farming industry in Scotland
Some of the Committee’s key recommendations include;
Fish mortality
Powers to be given to the Fish Health Inspectorate (or another appropriate body) to limit or halt production at sites which record persistently high mortality rates.
Committee reports
Date published:
17 January 2025
Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland - Background
In her 2023 update, the Cabinet Secretary stated the existing penalties relating to escapes:
Fish farms may receive an enforcement notice if there is a failure to ensure satisfactory measures are in place to contain farmed fish.
Committee reports
Date published:
17 January 2025
Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland - Causes of mortality
Causes of mortality
The Committee heard evidence which emphasised the complex factors causing farmed fish mortality, many of which are outwith the control of industry as a whole and its fish farmers individually.
Committee reports
Date published:
17 January 2025
Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland - Section 2 - fish health and welfare
Section 2 - fish health and welfare
The REC Committee identified fish health and welfare as a “significant challenge to the salmon farming industry in Scotland” and, as part of its inquiry, considered issues around mortality, sea lice and the use of cleaner fish.
Committee reports
Date published:
17 January 2025
Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland - Annexe A - REC Committee recommendations
However, it recognises that these benefits can only be achieved through careful management of the environmental implications and sustainable use of cleaner fish stocks.
RECOMMENDATION 26
It endorses the ECCLR recommendations on cleaner fish and agrees that there is an urgent need for an assessment of future demand as well as all associated environmental implications of the farming, fishing and use of cleaner fish.
Committee reports
Date published:
17 January 2025
Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland - Background
It also considers using sheltered locations as 'nursery farms' during early stages of production cycles before moving fish to more exposed locations.
Committee reports
Date published:
17 January 2025
Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland - Committee consideration
A number of witnesses highlighted how aquaculture data in Norway is published on a system called BarentsWatch, an information hub which collates and develops data on a number of fish health indicators from fish farms across Norway.
