Closed-Containment for Salmon Farms in Scotland

What it asks

What the petitioner did first

1. 7 Feb 2019
   Public Petitions Committee

   New Petitions
   1 mention
2. 7 Nov 2019
   Public Petitions Committee

   Continued Petitions
   1 mention
3. 27 Nov 2019
   Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee

   Petition
   1 mention
4. 22 Jan 2020
   Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee

   Petition
   1 mention
5. 17 Feb 2021
   Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee

   Petitions
   2 mentions

1. Scotland144 37.5%
2. United Kingdom93 24.2%
3. England78 20.3%
4. United States24 6.3%
5. Canada6 1.6%
6. Italy5 1.3%
7. Wales4 1%
8. Northern Ireland4 1%
9. France3 0.8%
10. Germany3 0.8%
11. 16 other countries20 5.2%

1. Doug Chase 12 Dec 2018
   i would prefer to close them all and only be allowed to use land based tank systems..............
2. Chris Rickard 12 Dec 2018
   Closed system with full water treatment is the only way our salmon industry can survive long term. Wild populations are already at fractions of historic levels due to lice infestations directly as a result of salmon farming.
3. Ewan Kennedy 14 Dec 2018
   The only way for aquaculture to go forward without wrecking the environment is by moving production on to land, which enables capture of waste, eliminates disease and removes the fish from sea lice
4. Helen Troup 14 Dec 2018
   I may live in Englnd now but I grew up on the Fifth of Forth. Seals were my introduction to the wonders of the oceans and Britisk wildlife. We have populations significant at European and world level. It is our duty as a country to protect these animals and put their interest above the commercial. Salmon farming damages the enviroment. The fish are raised in unhealthy unnatural conditions. We have to our priorities right.
5. Joan Grech 16 Dec 2018
   It would be too expensive not to implement closed containment
   - very similar to killing the goose that lays the golden egg.
   Quality food products are expensive
   - the market understands this and the consumer often welcomes it when it is as a result of quality and high environmental and ethical standards.
6. David Ashford 17 Dec 2018
   The closed containment idea has been canvassed for many years by the Skye & Lochalsh Environment Forum of which I am a Trustee.
7. John Childs 19 Dec 2018
   won't buy till this industry is better regulated
8. John Aitchison 19 Dec 2018
   Fish farming with open nets is inherently polluting. The industry says it would be too expensive to capture its waste and dispose of it responsibly but there are already viable alternative methods in use in Norway so the economic argument is probably being overstated. It is simply cheaper to dump waste in the sea. This is contrary to the 'polluter pays' principle, to which the Scottish Government is committed. Fish farming brings some valuable jobs to coastal communities but they will not be sustainable if the polluting methods used by the industry harm other jobs, for instance in creel fishing and tourism. It is time for Scotland to lead the world in showing that fish farming can be done sustainably and responsibly. If it does not, coastal communities will withdraw the industry's social licence to farm fish in waters that are shared by all.
9. Ann Keenan 20 Dec 2018
   This practice is reprehensible!
10. Ian Dobb 21 Dec 2018
    Scotland should lead not lag. This proposal takes Scotland from backward (in salmon farming) to leading in one step.
11. Chrystine Vernon 22 Dec 2018
    I support this petition
12. Iain Collins 27 Dec 2018
    I agree with petition to save our seas
13. Iris Neumann 28 Dec 2018
    We have the obligation of treating the animals and our planet earth with respect and make NO damages anymore
14. Martin Woods 30 Dec 2018
    Although I see this is a viable income for locals I believe it should be managed in an environmentally friendly manner and wildlife such as seals should not be targeted when their food source is harvested rather than naturally raised.
15. Helen winchester 30 Dec 2018
    It's time the Scottish government acted against animal abuse especially after they went to Westminster to stop fox hunting
16. RICHARD J WESLEY 1 Jan 2019
    So much damage has already occurred. not only to wild salmon through sea lice, but to once pristine waters. Anyone that has seen the devastating damage to sea floors through overfarming but also threats to seal populations where controls seem unenforced. Please protect our environment before it's too late!
17. Franz Grimley 1 Jan 2019
    government MUST act on this.
18. Graham Temby 2 Jan 2019
    Our seas need as much help as we can give them to restore them to health.
19. Ruth Morley 3 Jan 2019
    The Salmon farm industry is destroying our beautiful sea. The excess feed, fish waste is covering the bottom of our sea, destroying any wildlife that had lived there. If farmed salmon is needed than a closed containment system needs to be used. I really don't care if it is "to expensive to be used", they will put the extra cost onto the buyer anyway & yes they may have to pay for it first, but they can take it out of there profits. We have a duty to look after our country whether it is above or below water, both our very beautiful, but if we don't look after it now it will become barren. Our wildlife is already effected by salmon farming, increase in sea lice & from the pollution that fish farms do including netting etc. etc. We need to look after our wildlife now.
20. Mark Swain 3 Jan 2019
    Farmed salmon is too cheap and more expensive salmon would pay for closed containment, saving the seas and wild salmon and sea trout and possibly less deaths and diseases in the farmed salmon and nobody loses jobs or profits
21. Ewan G Kennedy 4 Jan 2019
    To Marine Concerns argument I would simply add that because open net fish farming causes environmental damage that can easily be prevented by close containment its continued use is illegal under the precautionary principle, which has been adopted as part of our domestic law.
22. Angela Rowlands 4 Jan 2019
    Could Reserch be done on the possibility of aquaponic system for farmed fish oviously it would have to be salt tolerant vegetables for sea based systems. However, rainbow trout could easily be grown in such a system with a wide verity of vegetables.
23. Jean Urquhart 5 Jan 2019
    This would appear to be a practical solution to a really serious problem that could, in time, see the end of salmon farming. At a stroke it addresses solution, seal culling and will help to protect the wild salmon. To say nothing of lice containment.
24. Sarah Eno 5 Jan 2019
    Local environmental problems and damage are my main concerns but the mining of other fish stocks as feed and colourants and additives used in production are horrifying. Even growing vegetable oils as feed will take land away from good plant based human food. We have got to change our diets. I don't buy or eat salmon, even organic. Almost as bad.
25. Huw Edgar Evans 6 Jan 2019
    Act now it may all ready be too late. Many if my friends have stopped using Scotish salmon and visiting Scotland for fishing.
26. Ian Cooke 6 Jan 2019
    The salmon aquaculture industry has had ample time to introduce improvements to salmon production that eliminates environmental degradation and high dependency on chemicals that this industry has a world wide reputation. The improvements necessary have not been forthcoming and the industry is striving to increase production levels in Scotland. Disease continues to be an issue and the industry mortality numbers are in excess of 20%, many many tons of carcasses have to be disposed of. It's time for the Scottish government to set a timetable whereby the industry has to move over to closed containment methods of production.
27. Robert Brown 7 Jan 2019
    To act as if no damage is being done is totally unacceptable and this must end now .
28. Katherine Suzanne Bray 8 Jan 2019
    We have only one planet. We have to look after it.
29. Karen Chapman 12 Jan 2019
    We must stop trashing our planet.
30. Hazel Hoggan 12 Jan 2019
    As a Scot I love the natural wildlife snd and strongly believe it must be protected & kept as nature intended.
31. Libby Anderson 13 Jan 2019
    It is scandalous that there is not a single close containment salmon fish farm in the UK or yet any plans for such. SEPA told me.
32. Susan Osborn 14 Jan 2019
    If we allow Salmon farms to grow using open nets we will lose our claim to have pristine waters on the West Coast of Scotland.