Scottish ministers will make the final decision on controversial plans for a new fish farm in the Loch Lomond National Park
Planning Minister Joe FitzPatrick will decide whether an application to build a fish farm in Loch Long will be approved
LLS is proposing to construct a salmon farm using a semi-closed containment system – which would be a Scottish first. This technology would see fish housed in nets within impermeable floating enclosures. Stewart Hawthorn, LLS managing director, told the Sunday National that 100% of waste feed and 85% of salmon excrement would be collected at the bottom of the SCCS, while the remaining 15% flowed out into the sea loch.
AFFtheClyde went on: “Even if the 85% collection of waste can be achieved in Loch Long, other risks come into play as the more confined the location the greater the risk of soluble contaminants, nitrogen, and phosphorus containing wastes promoting toxic algal blooms, as would most likely be the case in Loch Long.
The location of the proposed fish farm, with the boundaries of the national park shown in darker greenbefore the initial application was rejected, planning officials said the development would “have an industrial appearance in an area of undeveloped coastline” and raised concerns that there was “not a body of sound evidence on which to rely to make a decision on this new technology”.
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