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(SSPO) issued an indignant riposte to claims by an angling lobby group that the condition of the seabed
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under 44 per cent of Scotland’s salmon farms has been classified as being in an ‘unsatisfac- tory’ state by SEPA.
90 per cent of Scotland’s 450 farm sites were classified as ‘good’ or ‘excellent’
Scott Landsburgh, the SSPO’s Chief Executive, said: ‘The selective three-year analysis from the pressure group S&TA is their usual biased propaganda contrasting starkly with the official 2011 data released yesterday by the Scot- tish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA), the government agency with responsibility for protecting and improving Scotland’s unique and beautiful environment, which shows that approaching 90 per cent of the 450 fish farms that were assessed last year alone are either “good” or “excellent”.
‘Numerous time-consuming Freedom of Information requests and then taking raw data out of context to suit lobbying pur- poses is an abuse of tax payers’ money – this must stop!!’
NOVEMBER Trout launch fresh offensive
he British Trout Association launched a new campaign to encourage UK shoppers to put trout back in their shopping baskets, af- ter the fish dropped out of British consumers’10 most popular species.
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Trout producers up and down the country united to boost the profile of their product, with support coming