20% of the Scottish fish farms fail to meet environmental standards
Meeting the environmental standards applied in case of fish farms may be the newest problem the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has to deal with.
A growing number of farms and the lack of monitoring or abstraction data being submitted on time has pushed down the level of compliance in 2017 to 81.14% from 85.75% registered in the previous year.
The number of failing aqua farms has risen from 50 to 56 in the last year and SEPA in considering a revised regulatory regime that will firmly strengthen the regulation of the sector and a comprehensive program of public engagement. The new regime will include fresh modeling using the best available science, enhanced site-based environmental monitoring, a new approach to sustainable siting of marine cage fish farms, and a new approach for controlling the use of medicines aligned with encouraging innovation in the containment of marine waste, reports Seafood Source magazine.
"Every Scottish business will comply with the law, and we’ll work to ensure as many as possible will go even further. We’re also clear that we will not tolerate consistent non-compliance. Our annual compliance report card enables us to systematically identify the compliance issues that need to be tackled in sectors like aquaculture and landfill. Local communities will rightly hold us to account if future years do not show an improvement", declared Terry A’Hearn, chief executive for SEPA.
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