Globally, our oceans are under stress. This was powerfully emphasised at the recent United Nations Ocean Conference in New York. One of the many pressures on our marine environment is the harvesting of wild fish stocks. Aquaculture, including caged fish farming, represents one way to reduce this...More
SEPA routinely assesses the environmental performance of the operators that we regulate. One of our main duties is to determine how well an operator is complying with their environmental obligations. We call this process ‘Compliance Assessment’ and we determine this by using rules set out...More
This consultation presents the details of the planned changes outlined in the 2015 Charging Scheme consultation (2015 Consultation) to further develop the Environmental Regulation (Scotland) Charging Scheme 2016 (the Scheme) which came into force on 1 April 2016. We proposed that the revised...More