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Partners
This website has been designed and developed in partnership by the following organisations to provide a single point of access to aquaculture information held by the main regulators of the Scottish aquaculture industry.
If you wish to contact one of the website partners directly about something not related to this website, please visit them using the links available.
The Marine Directorate promotes the sustainable development of the aquaculture sector. It is the licensing authority for marine farm equipment through the Licensing Operations Team (MS-LOT) and have responsibility for farmed fish and shellfish health via the Fish Health Inspectorate and the Aquatic Animal Health (Scotland) Regulations 2009. Marine Directorate have a range of reporting contributions to the aquaculture website including: Fish escapes; Sea Lice information; Fin fish species farmed and shellfish aquaculture sites authorised with as Aquaculture Production Businesses; and Marine Directorate Management Areas.
SEPA is responsible for protecting Scotland’s water environment and do so by regulating discharges from finfish farms through permits issued under the Water Environment (Controlled Activities) (Scotland) Regulations 2011 (CAR). SEPA’s data reporting contributions to Scotland’s aquaculture website include but are not limited to: the license locations of finfish farms; finfish biomass and treatment reports; Environmental Monitoring Surveys; and Sealice In-Feed treatment residues.
The Crown Estate Scotland provide leases for aquaculture developers that allow them to use areas of the seabed to farm finfish, shellfish and seaweed. They provide information on shellfish and finfish lease areas to the Aquaculture website.
NatureScot is Scotland’s nature agency, providing statutory and non-statutory advice to regulators, such as local authorities, SEPA and Marine Scotland - Licensing Operations Team (MS-LOT) and working closely with government and industry to advise on matters related to Scotland’s nature and landscapes. They provide the spatial information on protected areas which is available through the aquaculture website.
The project was developed in a spirit of openness and joined up governance, to make it easier for interested parties to learn more about the aquaculture industry. It is primarily a comprehensive store of aquaculture data and is not designed as a means of providing exhaustive background information on the industry in Scotland.
All the information provided on this website is owned by the organisations who supplied it. You can find out the owner for each of the data sets on any of the data search result pages or by looking at the dataset descriptions.