A Fresh Start – the renewed Strategic A Fresh Start – the renewed Strategic Framework for Scottish AquacultureFramework for Scottish Aquaculture
• Healthier fish and shellfishHealthier fish and shellfish• Improved systems for Improved systems for
licensing aquaculture licensing aquaculture developmentsdevelopments
• Improved containmentImproved containment• Better marketing and Better marketing and
improved imageimproved image• Improved access to financeImproved access to finance• Shellfish ForumShellfish Forum
Ministerial Group on Aquaculture
Healthier fish & shellfish
Improved systems for licensing
Better marketing & image
Improved access to finance
Shellfish forum
Improved ContainmentSkills development
Mitigation of escapes
Equipment
Audit
Predator control
Closed containment
Freshwater
New developments
Fresh Start Structure
Improved Containment Sub-Group Members
AQUACULTURE INDUSTRYSteve Bracken, Marine Harvest (Chair)Reay Whyte, Scottish Sea FarmsIain Macintyre, Lighthouse CaledoniaCalvin Knight, Dawnfresh Farming LtdKen Hughes, SSPOJamie Smith SSPO
INDUSTRY EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERSJohn Offord, Gaelforce MarineRoger Dehany, W&J Knox LtdStephen Divers, Fusion Marine Ltd
INSURANCETom Macrae, Sunderland Marine
ENGINEERINGProf.Peter Davies, Telford Institute
TRAININGIshbel Crawford, LANTRA
WILD FISHERIES Jane Wright, Argyll District Salmon Fishery Board
MARINE CONSERVATION SOCIETYDawn Purchase, Mariculture Officer
SEPAJanet Davies
SCOTTISH GOVERNMENTBrian Dornan, Head of Aquaculture Policy and FishHealthPaul Haddon, Aquaculture Policy ManagerLisa Johnston, Aquaculture PolicyRon Smith, Marine Scotland ScienceIan Walker, Marine EnvironmentAndrew Kent, Marine Environment
SAMSDr Kenny Black
(Some members of the ICWG will also help steer the Technical Standard)
Improved Containment Working Group
The remit of the group is “to focus on improving containment by adopting best-practice to reduce escapes, improve profitability and secure the future and credibility of the industry, whilst minimising adverse environmental impacts and preventing conflict with other interests”.
Cause of Escapes May 2002 to October 2009
SARF 54 Report (Mark Taylor – Thistle Environmental Partnership)
2010 Escapes for Salmon and Trout
Salmon and Trout Escapes in 2010
Scottish Technical Standard
Through A Fresh Start - Improved Containment Working Group, the Scottish finfish farming industry has signed up to the development of a statutory engineering standard for Scottish fish-farm equipment (pens, nets and moorings) to minimise escapes.
What single factor if developed further would promote the security and containment of fish farm stock?
Thistle Environmental - Undertaken for the Scottish Salmon Producers’ Organisation , V2, February 2011
Please provide examples of best practice which have helped to reduce the threat of an escape incident
Thistle Environmental - Undertaken for the Scottish Salmon Producers’ Organisation V2, February 2011
Scottish Technical Standard
The Scottish Standard will apply to freshwater and marine farms and represents a major step forward for the industry that will serve to minimise escapes.
Scottish Technical StandardSummary of Project Objectives
Recommendations for a STS Recommendations for inspection, certification
and accreditation mechanisms Develop text of a STS Consult widely throughout Identify knowledge gaps 1st review meeting held in March
Scottish Technical StandardProject Team
Mark Taylor & Robert Kelly (Thistle Environmental Partnership)
Østen Jensen (SINTEF) project engineer
Bruce Smith (Bruce L Smith & Associates ) reviewer
Scottish Technical Standard Approach (1) Develop a STS that is:
EffectiveWorkableDefendable / justifiable / usefulAppropriate for Scottish industry
Identify knowledge gaps and recommendations
Mark Taylor, Thistle Environmental
Scottish Technical Standard Approach (2)
The STS will: Build on existing standards & protocols, of
which NS9415 is the most relevant Be appropriate for Scottish environment Take account of new developments Be enforceable / auditable
Mark Taylor, Thistle Environmental
Project Flowchart
Mark Taylor, Thistle Environmental
Summary update on ICWG Development of a statutory engineering standard for Scottish
fish-farms Scotland is also involved in an international standards
working group (ISO 234) developing global aquaculture equipment standards
Improved Containment group to commission a desk study on the impact of open pen aquaculture on wild fisheries including frequency, cause and significance of drip escapes.
Development of a nationally recognised containment qualification and up-to-date training courses
Thank you