Where is the allocated zone in Scotland Mairi Gougeon? The entire west coast and islands? Our wild fish interests have been sold out for foreign multinationals that we then shore up with grants and lax rules.

Mowi trying to have their cake + eat it. Buying a small, labour intensive farm, firing a bunch of folk, fighting the local community in their bid to instal industrial feed barges, but keeping the ‘brand’ with words all over the internet that do not reflect the current situation

Talk about running the gauntlet, these purple smolts have got to navigate through clouds of salmon farm origin sea lice at the very start of their long journey, bloody depressing. #Offthetable Mairi Gougeon

The Scottish Government have an obligation to protect herring spawning habitat, why wont/don't they take action? Easy win when they currently look like they don't give a fig for the environment or coastal communities. #InshoreLimit Mairi Gougeon

Great to see Scottish Government improving seafood traceability in the scallop and pelagic fleet! Now lets roll out REM for the trawl fleet #sustainableseafood

📹 Helen McLachlan RSPB Scotland & Joe Whitelegg (Isle of Man Fisheries) at Wednesday's RAI Committee session

It's a legal requirement to prevent harm to our seabed! Scottish Ministers lose court appeal, as landmark judgment upheld by senior judges📷
@ScotGov must overhaul its approach to licensing damaging fisheries particularly scallop dredging
Watch STV News
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👇 The impact's of Scottish Government money making schemes are not being considered. Investment in - and encouragement of - foreign owned salmon farms, without consideration of what loss of habitats + species from massive nutrient + organophosphate pollution means to coastal communities.

At this rate Tavish Scott will be able to retire soon.

There is a lot in the press today regarding the terrible impacts of ammonia from terrestrial chook farms, same situation from farmed salmon farms, you can measure it, it’s destroying essential fish habitat below the surface, but most folk can’t see the impacts as easily.

“I had come by to make sure the university president had not called in the APD, but he did,” McAfee posted later. “Then I witnessed a young person being viciously pummeled by the cops. After demanding that they stop and refusing to step away, I was arrested.”

This leopardine beauty laying on the transect line is a nursehound (Scyliorhinus stellaris). Regarded as 'Vulnerable' by IUCN, we found a few in our surveys this week, evidence of the habitat conservation value of oyster beds.
With Mateja Švonja #OisreConamara #LoveIrishResearch

Well done Open Seas ; when licencing dredge & other fisheries Scottish Government must do so in accordance with their own rules
TBF that doesn't actually sound like a lot to ask!
Mind you there's a heap of their own rules Scot Gov Marine just ignore Mairi Gougeon
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Always pleased to find his daddy’s oysters at his favourite Ullapool eatery! ⁦The Seafood Shack⁩

Helpful definition Wheeler Seafood, Inc: 'Hand rearing means being hands-on in every details and not ever replying on machines or cameras' WesterRossFisheries
So why is Mowi Scotland Limited still peddling the myth that Wester Ross Salmon is 'hand reared' when machines & cameras are used?

This is fantastic. Well done to all that put so much hard work in. Maybe Scottish Government can stop trying to wriggle out of their obligations, stop wasting tax payers money trying to defend the indefensible, and get on with their job. Mairi Gougeon

'they are doing great land management work'
Me: for example?
'pest control and such'
'What pests?' I asked, rhetorically.
'You know, foxes, magpies, crows'
And that ther is the old world mentality that wiped out raptors from Ireland, and will again now they are bouncing back.

Jaisus, this absolutely appalling, unnecessary and totally wrong-headed. Who are these people?