Marine pen fish farming: Charging changes

Closes 18 Feb 2025

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1. What is your name?
2. What is your email address?
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3. If you have supplied an email address are you happy to receive communication from SEPA about the regulation of aquaculture?
4. Are you responding to this consultation for yourself?
5. Are you happy for us to publish your response to this consultation?
6. Do you agree that we have identified an appropriate scale of monitoring work to allow us to start improving our understanding of the interactions between sea lice and salmonids?
7. Do you agree with our proposal to recover our costs by increasing the environmental component where that is paid for by a marine cage fish farm permit?
8. Do you agree with our proposal to recover the additional charge in proportion to the scale of the existing environmental component for each permit?
9. Do you agree with our proposal to phase the enhanced monitoring programme over 2025 and 2026?
10. Do you agree that the proposals for a national monitoring programme will represent a significant improvement in the way that sea lice/wild salmonid interactions are monitored?
11. Do you have any other observations that you wish to make?