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Steering Group

Steering Group

The Steering Group will draft policy proposals and will meet at regular intervals. It will update the Forum as required (perhaps at 6 monthly intervals).

Feedback from the Group will be provided by the people and bodies represented on it, so that the legitimate concerns of all are considered, insofar as this is possible.

The following organisations are represented on the Forum's Steering Group:

  • Association of Salmon Fishery Boards;

  • Association of Scottish Stillwater Fisheries;

  • Atlantic Salmon Trust;

  • British Trout Association;

  • Consultative Committee on Protection Orders;

  • Fish Conservation Centre;

  • Institute of Fisheries Management;

  • Marine Scotland Science;

  • National Farmers' Union (Scotland);

  • River and Fisheries Trust of Scotland;

  • Salmon and Trout Association (Scotland);

  • Salmon Net Fishing Association of Scotland;

  • Scottish Anglers National Association;

  • Scottish Campaign for Public Angling;

  • Scottish Environment Protection Agency;

  • Scottish Federation for Coarse Angling;

  • Scottish Natural Heritage;

  • Scottish Rural Property and Business Association; and

  • The Scottish Government - Marine Scotland - Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries (Chair and Secretariat)

Forthcoming meeting

Meeting Details

  • Tuesday, 24 March 2009 at 10:30

  • SASA, 1 Roddinglaw Road, Edinburgh, EH22 9FJ

Papers

  • Agenda to be finalised


Previous Meetings papers

Papers

Consultations and Publications

Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Legislation

Scotland's freshwater fish and fisheries: Securing their future - Summary of Responses


SFFF SG 3-2: Legislative options for angling methods

SFFF SG 3-3: Information on section 30

SFFF SG 3-4: Access

SFFF SG 4-2: Rod and Line fishing and Nomenclature

SFFF SG 4-3: Scotland's fish fauna

SFFF SG 4-4: SFCA Observations on funding for Fisheries Management

SFFF SG 5-1: Scottish equivalent to section 30

SFFF SG 5-2: Grayling close time

SFFF SG 5-3: Options for management structures and funding

SFFF SG 5-4: Options for improved access

SFFF SG 6-2a: A commentary on the operation of protection orders

SFFF SG 6-2b: Access and Management Order (AMO) (July 2000 Paper)

SFFF SG 6-2c: Access to salmon and freshwater fisheries in Scotland

SFFF SG 6-2d: Limitations of Protection Orders

SFFF SG 6-3a: Section 30 - Equivalent Regulations

SFFF SG 6-3b: Regulation of Fish Movements

SFFF SG 6-4a: Steering Group Comments on Annual/ Weekly close times

SFFF SG 6-4b: Comments Posted on the Discussion Forum re. Close Times

SFFF SG 7-4: Access to Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries in Scotland

SFFF SG 7-5: Protection of Freshwater Fish Species

SFFF SG 8-1: Access

SFFF SG 8-2: Management

SFFF SG 10-1 : Public Rivers and Lochs

SFFF SG 11-1 : Fisheries Management Planning

SFFF SG 11-2 : VHS (Viral Haemorrhagic Septicaemia)

SFFF SG 12-2 : Regulating Movements of Fish into Inland Freshwaters

SFFF SG 14-1 : SASA presentation on Predation

SFFF SG 14-2 : FRS presentation on Predation

SFFF SG 14-3 : SNH presentation on Predation

SFFF SG 15-1 : Freshwater Fisheries Management & Development on the River Dee

SFFF SG 15-2 : Salmon Fishing in Scotland

SFFF SG 17-1 : Role of FRS

SFFF SG 17-2 : Freshwater Fishery Resources Group

SFFF SG 17-3 : conservation and restoration

SFFF SG 17-4 : Freshwater Environment

SFFF SG 17-5 : Ecology

SFFF SG 17-6 : New ROAME Rivers

SFFF SG 17-7 : New ROAME Lochs

SFFF SG 19-1 : Regulating Introductions presentation

SFFF SG 19-2 : Strategic Framework presentation

SFFF SG 19-3 : Scottish Government presentation : Aquaculture & Freshwater Fisheries Policy Overview

SFFF SG 19-4 : FRS presentation : Overview of FRS Science Programme

SFFF SG 21-1 & SFFF SG 21-2 : Guide to best practice DSFBs and Trusts - ASFB

SFFF SG 21-3 : ASFB paper " Web portal discussions"

SFFF SG 21-4 : paper by MSS - Dr Trevor Hastings

SFFF SG 21-5 : SEPA Update on River Basin Management Planning (RBMP)

SFFF SG 21-6 : Tripartite Working Group (TWG) presentation by Arthur Griffiths, TWG Project Manager

SFFF SG 21-7 : Wild and Farmed salmon interactions. Stakeholder Mapping - Arthur Griffiths, TWG Project Manager

SFFF SG 21-8 : presentation by John Webb, Restoration Co-ordinator

SFFF SG 21-9 : David Bassett (BTA) - The potential for restocking using all-female triploid brown trout by David J Solomon

SFFF SG 21-10 : David Basset (BTA) - Trout and Grayling Society Newsletter - March 2009

Defra Reports:

Minutes

1st meeting - Pentland House, Edinburgh - 07/05/2004

2nd meeting - Strathearn House, Broxden, Perth - 13/07/2004

3rd meeting - Strathearn House, Broxden, Perth - 27/08/2004

4th meeting - Strathearn House, Broxden, Perth - 07/10/2004

5th meeting - Pentland House, Edinburgh - 25/11/2004

6th meeting - Strathearn House, Broxden, Perth - 17/01/2005

7th meeting - Strathearn House, Broxden, Perth - 21/04/2005

8th meeting - Innkeepers Lodge, Perth - 25/05/2005.

9th meeting - Stirling Council Municipal Buildings - 20/09/2005

10th meeting - SEERAD, Pentland House, Edinburgh - 27/03/2006

11th meeting - Gannochy Suite, The Dewar Centre, Perth - 21/06/2006

12th meeting - SEERAD, Pentland House, Edinburgh - 14/08/2006

13th meeting - SASA, Gogarbank, Edinburgh - 27/09/2006

14th meetng - SEERAD, Pentland House, Edinburgh - 14/11/2006

15th meeting - SASA, Gogarbank, Edinburgh - 27/02/2007

16th meeting - SASA, Gogarbank, Edinburgh - 02/05/2007

17th meeting - SASA, Gogarbank, Edinburgh - 23/10/2007

18th meeting - SASA, Gogarbank, Edinburgh - 06/02/2008

19th meeting - SASA, Gogarbank, Edinburgh - 07/05/2008

20th meeting - SASA, Gogarbank, Edinburgh - 19/11/2008

21st meeting - SASA, Gogarbank, Edinburgh - 24/03/2009



Contact

The Scottish Government
Marine Scotland

Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries
Room 408A, Pentland House
47 Robb's Loan
Edinburgh EH14 1TY

Tel. 0131 244 6231
Fax. 0131 244 6313

Page updated: Monday, August 24, 2009