SCHEDULE
Article 3
Information to be reported in relation to the prevention, control and reduction of parasites...
The Fish Farming Businesses (Reporting) (Scotland) Order 2020
| Jurisdiction | Scotland |
| Citation | SSI 2020/447 |
| Year | 2020 |
2020 No. 447
Fish Farming
The Fish Farming Businesses (Reporting) (Scotland) Order 2020
Made 17th December 2020
Laid before the Scottish Parliament 21th December 2020
Coming into force 29th March 2021
The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1(1) of the Aquaculture and Fisheries (Scotland) Act 20071and all other powers enabling them to do so.
The Scottish Ministers consider it necessary to make this Order for the purpose of obtaining information in relation to the prevention, control and reduction of parasites on fish farms.
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Fish Farming Businesses (Reporting) (Scotland) Order 2020 and comes into force on 29 March 2021.
Interpretation
2. In this Order—
“reporting week” means a period of seven days beginning on a Monday,
“site” means a site that is not in freshwater, at which fish are farmed.
Reporting
3.—(1) For the purpose of obtaining information in relation to the prevention, control and reduction of parasites on fish farms, a person who carries on a business of fish farming must, in respect of each site of that business, provide to the Scottish Ministers the information specified in the schedule.
(2) Subject to paragraph 1(3) of the schedule, the information referred to in paragraph (1) must be provided in writing in respect of each reporting week and, in each case, no later than 8 days after the end of the reporting week.
Amendment of the Fish Farming Businesses (Record Keeping) (Scotland) Order 2008
4. In schedule 1 (records in relation to the prevention, control and reduction of parasites) of the Fish Farming Businesses (Record Keeping) (Scotland) Order 20082for paragraph 2(f) substitute—
“(f)
“(f) the number of parasites counted on the fish sampled per facility and the stages of the life-cycle of the parasites counted, those stages—
(i)for Caligus elongatus being all identifiable stages grouped together, and
(ii) forLepeophtheirus salmonis being chalimus, adult females (gravid and non-gravid) and all other identifiable mobile stages grouped together; and”.
FERGUS EWING
A member of the Scottish Government
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
17th December 2020
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