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A Strategic Framework for Scottish Aquaculture
Appendix 3: Summary of objectives, priority actions and those responsible
Title: Commercial investment | Para reference: 3.3 |
Federation of Scottish Aquaculture Producers (FSAP) to prepare a plan to encourage investment in Scottish aquaculture. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
December 2003 | Initial report completed with recommendations for further action. | FSAP |
| Who else involved
Retailers; Scottish Executive;
HIE; local authorities; Crown
Estate; and Banks. |
Title: Comparative costs of aquaculture production | Para reference: 3.4 |
To consider need for independent study of the regulatory costs on aquaculture businesses in Scotland. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
May 2003
November 2003 | Discussion of need for study
Study completed. | Trade associations and Scottish Executive |
| Who else involved |
HIE and Crown Estate |
Title: Export strategy | Para reference: 3.5 |
To develop Exports Action Plan. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
During 2003
Spring 2004 | Strategic analysis commissioned
Targeted action plan developed. | Trade associations |
| Who else involved |
HIE; exporting companies;
Scottish Enterprise; Seafish;
SDI; and Food From Britain |
Title: Adding value | Para reference: 3.19 |
To develop the potential of branded products and the associated product quality standards. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
During 2003 | Develop strategy to optimise Scotland's
potential for, and premium from,
differentiated products based on
geographic origin and product/
production qualities and attributes. | Trade associations |
2004 | Implement strategy. | |
| Who else involved |
HIE; Scottish Enterprise and Scottish Executive. |
Title: Training and retraining | Para reference: 3.24 to 3.27 |
Skills gaps to be identified and action plan produced. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
Spring 2003
2003-04 | Current staffing, skills gaps etc. assessed.
Course material and delivery packages developed. | LANTRA; trade associations; and HIE/LECs |
| Who else involved |
Scottish Executive; local authorities; training providers; and FSA(S). |
Title: Teaching Company Scheme | Para reference: 3.28-3.29 |
To extend TCS to aquaculture. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
2003 | Funds identified. | Scottish Executive |
| Who else involved |
Title: Developing public understanding of aquaculture | Para reference: 3.33 |
To improve public understanding of the industry, its governance and other relevant issues. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
Spring 2003 | Strategic Framework launched, ongoing work thereafter. | Trade associations |
| Who else involved |
Retailers; Seafish; local authorities; FSA. |
Title: Relationship between Seafish and aquaculture | Para reference: 3.34-3.35 |
To consider future relationship between Seafish and the aquaculture industry. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
April 2003 | Issues discussed in Seafish Aquaculture Advisory Committee. | Seafish |
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Autumn, 2003 | Decisions published. |
| Who else involved |
Industry trade associations |
and organisations. |
Title: Structural funds | Para reference: 3.36 -3.39 |
To input as appropriate to review of FIFG funding for aquaculture. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
During 2003 | Mid-term review of FIFG. | Scottish Executive |
| Who else involved |
Trade associations. |
Title: Carrying capacity | Para reference: 3.40-3.45 |
To develop a model for determining carrying capacity. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
Spring 2003 | Expert working group established. | SEPA |
Autumn 2003 | Report from working group with options for model development, followed by public consultation |
Spring 2006 | Improved modelling approach developed, and validated using field data |
Summer 2006 | Public consultation on proposed model. |
Autumn 2006 | Improved modelling approach in place |
| Who else involved |
Trade associations; Scottish Executive; local authorities; SNH; wild fish interests; scientific bodies. |
Title: Data gathering | Para reference: 3.46-3.47 |
To collect environmental data to inform carrying capacity guidelines at local level. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
Spring 2004 | Parameters identified for routine measurement; standard reporting format and transmission timetable agreed. | SEPA |
Spring 2005 | Monitoring network and data base to handle returns developed. |
| Who else involved |
Producers; trade associations; Scottish Executive; local authorities; SNH; local environmental groups; wild fish interests. |
Title: Location and relocation of farms | Para reference: 3.49-3.52 |
To develop policy on location/ relocation of fish farms. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
2003 | Stakeholder group established. | Scottish Executive |
2004 | Criteria/rationale to assess whether farms are poorly located developed.Scoping study reviewing research and field data on louse infection levels on wild salmonids. |
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2004-05 | Consultation with industry and other stakeholders on proposals. |
| Who else involved |
Producers; trade associations, HIE; local authorities; CE, NH; SEPA; environmental NGOs; Scottish Fishermens Federation; wild fish interests; and scientific bodies. |
Title: Scottish Aquaculture Research Forum | Para reference: 3.53-3.55 |
To establish a Scottish Aquaculture Research Forum. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
Summer 2003 | Remit, membership and research priorities determined. | Scottish Executive |
| Who else involved |
Trade associations; SFIA; HIE; local authorities; Crown Estate; SNH;SEPA; environmental NGOs; wild fish interests; scientific bodies. |
Title: Sea lice management | Para reference: 3.62-3.64 |
To review effectiveness of voluntary sea lice management initiatives. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
Ongoing | Audit checks by Fisheries Research Services or suitable contractor andTWG National Development Officer. | Scottish Executive |
| Who else involved |
Producers; trade associations; SEPA; and wild fish interests. |
Title: Prevention of escapes | Para reference: 3.65-3.69 |
To minimise escapes. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
Ongoing | Better on-farm security; revised industry codes of practice on containment; exploration of improved standards of construction and maintenance. | Scottish Executive |
| Who else involved |
Producers; trade associations; local authorities; SNH; environmental NGOs; and wild fish interests. |
Title: Marking farmed fish | Para reference: 3.67 |
To conduct an international assessment of current and prospective techniques for marking farmed fish. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
Spring 2004 | Report to SARF and TWG | Scottish Executive |
| Who else involved |
Trade associations; SNH; environmental NGOs; wild fish interests; and scientific bodies. |
Title: Development of containment guidance | Para reference: 3.69 |
To produce guidance on fish farm cage/equipment design and security. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
Spring 2004 | Appropriate guidance to inform regulators | Local authorities (H&I Aquaculture Forum) |
| Who else involved |
Insurance sector; suppliers; producers; trade associations; Crown Estate; Scottish Executive. |
Title: Environmental Impact Assessment | Para reference: 3.71 -3.73 |
To review the quality of fish farm EIAs and develop guidance for developers and regulators on minimum standards. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
Spring 2004 | Review completed. | COSLA |
Summer 2004 | Guidance on expected minimum standards produced. |
| Who else involved |
Trade associations; Scottish Executive; Crown Estate; SEPA; SNH; environmental NGOs; wild fish interests. |
Title: Community liaison arrangements | Para reference: 3.74-3.75 |
To develop local community/industry liaison arrangements. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
December 2003 | Good local liaison to be evident in the majority of aquaculture _ important communities | Trade associations |
| Who else involved |
Producers; local authorities; local communities; environmental NGOs; wild fish interests. |
Title: New Businesses | Para reference: 3.79 |
To develop business diversification and start-up schemes. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
Early 2004 | Schemes currently available and companies' future needs reviewed; position paper produced. | HIE and LECs |
| Who else involved |
Local authorities; service and supply businesses; trade associations. |
Title: Promotion of healthy eating | Para reference: 3.81-3.83 |
To establish Healthy Seafood Eating task force. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
Early 2003 | Healthy Seafood Eating task force set up. | FSAP; industry; trade organisations |
Summer 2003 | Campaign launched. |
Annually | Domestic seafood consumption trends monitored |
| Who else involved |
Retailers; Seafish; Scottish Executive; FSA; HEBS. |
Title: Local authority Zoning Plans | Para reference: 3.86-3.87 |
Local authorities to develop local guidance zoning the development of aquaculture in coastal areas. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
2003-04 | Local guidance published | Local Authorities |
| Who else involved |
Trade associations; SNH; SEPA; environmental NGOs; wild fish interests; Scottish Executive. |
Title: Welfare assessment | Para reference: 3.88-3.90 |
All veterinarians working with fish to develop their knowledge of fish health and welfare issues. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
Ongoing | Regular dialogue with FRS and Aquaculture Health Joint Working Group. | Fish Veterinary Society |
| Who else involved |
Scottish Executive; and Aquaculture Health Joint Working Group. |
Title: Welfare indices for aquaculture species | Para reference: 3.91-3.92 |
To produce Welfare Code of Practice for farmed fish. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
Summer 2003 | AHJWG subgroup set up to consider welfare issues and report. | Scottish Executive (AHJWG) |
Summer 2004 | AHJWG subgroup report published with recommendations for changes to codes of practice. | |
| Who else involved |
Fish Veterinary Society; RUMA; CIWF; State Veterinary Service. |
Title: Codes of Practice | Para reference: 3.93-3.94 |
To develop Code of Best Practice (including Code of Best Environmental Practice). |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
End 2003 | Production of draft Codes of Practice for consultation | Trade associations |
Summer 2004 | All licensed aquaculture operators in Scotland subscribed to Codes of Practice. | |
| Who else involved |
SEPA; SNH; Scottish Executive; FRS; CE; FSA(S); Seafish; environmental NGOs; local authorities; State Veterinary Service; and academic institutions. |
Title: Monitoring Codes of Practice | Para reference: 3.95 |
To monitor and audit compliance with industry codes. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
Summer 2005 | First compliance reports published. | Scottish Executive |
| Who else involved |
Trade associations; AHJWG. |
Title: Waste disposal | Para reference: 3.96 |
To develop a collective fish waste management infrastructure. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
End 2003 | Waste management infrastructure developed. | Scottish Executive |
| Who else involved |
Trade associations; HIE; Seafish; local authorities; the UK Association of Fish Meal Manufacturers; and SEPA. |
Title: Aquaculture Bill | Para reference: 3.97 |
To enact legislation governing the aquaculture industry in Scotland. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
2003-04 | Development of draft proposals for inclusion in Bill, in consultation with stakeholders | Scottish Executive |
As legislative time permits. | Bill introduced in the Scottish Parliament. |
| Who else involved |
All aquaculture stakeholders. |
Title: Extension of planning controls | Para reference: 3.99-3.100 |
To extend local authority planning responsibility to marine aquaculture. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
Summer 2003 | Stakeholder group established. | Scottish Executive |
Summer 2004 | Draft proposals issued for consultation. |
2005 | Planning controls extended. |
| Who else involved |
Planning authorities; aquaculture stakeholders. |
Title: Planning guidance for fish farming | Para reference: 3.103 |
To produce SPP for fish farming. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
As per the timetable for extending planning controls. | | Scottish Executive |
2005 | SPP introduced. |
| Who else involved |
Local authorities; aquaculture stakeholders. |
Title: Fish health legislation | Para reference: 3.108-3.109 |
To establish UK position ahead of revision of EC Fish Health Directives. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
Summer 2003 | Discussion with industry of legislative requirements. | Scottish Executive |
2003-04 | Revision of Fish Health Directives. |
| Who else involved |
Members of AHJWG. |
Title: Education programmes | Para reference: 3.110-3.111 |
To develop educational material about fish farming. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
Ongoing from 2003 | Development of appropriate study materials | Education authorities; schools and trade associations. |
| Who else involved |
Scottish Executive; Seafish; SNH; Careers Scotland. |
Title: The quality of shellfish waters and compliance with end-product standards for harvested bivalve molluscs | Para reference: 3.112 - 3.114 |
To determine the relationship between quality standard failures under the Harvesting and Shellfish Waters Directives. |
Timetable | Indicators/stages | Lead body |
2 years from project inception | Interim report on field monitoring stage after 1st 12 months, final report 24 months after project inception | Joint SEPA/FSA(S) |
| Who else involved |
FRS. |
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