Moratorium on Sea Cage Fish Farming

The motion

That the Parliament notes the responsibility of government to comply with Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy (the Water Framework Directive) in maintaining the quality of rivers, lochs and coastal waters; further notes concerns regarding aquaculture-related environmental impacts voiced in the Transport and the Environment Committee’s inquiry into caged fish farming, and considers that the Scottish Executive should instigate a moratorium on the further expansion of intensive, large scale sea-cage fish farming until such time as the environmental carrying capacity of Scotland’s aquatic environment for aquaculture activity has been comprehensively determined, such a moratorium to exclude the undertaking of sea cage fish farming at new sites for the purposes of good husbandry and mitigating environmental impact.

No recorded vote on this motion. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

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Party shown is each supporter’s party when the motion was published.

No contribution in the Official Report cites S1M-02473 by reference.