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 licensing Improved systems for licensing

aquaculture developmentsaquaculture developments• 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 & shellfishImproved systems for licensing

Better marketing & imageImproved access to finance

Shellfish forumImproved Containment

Skills developmentMitigation of escapes

EquipmentAudit

Predator controlClosed containment

FreshwaterNew 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