Petition Discussions

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Petition ID Commenter Date Comment
2472 Ian S Rankin 2016-01-21T15:41:59 Perhaps with an election looming anglers could use their vote to encourage action. Scientific studies and reviews app...
2472 Diana Tym (nee Chapman) 2016-01-21T15:44:31.877 That this has happened during my lifetime makes me feel extremely sad. My grandchildren will have no reason to go to ...
2472 David Blackburn 2016-01-21T16:05:36.953 AS A REGULAR SALMON FISHERMAN IN THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND AND AWARE OF HOW MUCH BUSINESS IS GENERATED FOR THE LOCAL ECON...
2472 Paul Needham 2016-01-21T16:09:49.593 Sea lice are causing a real problem to the wild salmon stock, it's time to take action before its to late!
2472 john osbaldeston 2016-01-21T16:42:25.437 Some people won't be happy 'till we've wasted the World !!
2472 Lord Crickhowell 2016-01-21T17:01:43.75 Former Chairman of National Rivers Authority. Strongly support
2472 David Paterson 2016-01-21T17:04:01.437 The present Scottish Government have been paid plenty from salmon farms to lobby on their behalf.\r\nIts time they ma...
2472 David Sherriffs 2016-01-21T17:11:39.297 This problem has gone on for far to long, we all know what sealice have done to salmon & seatrout stocks I hope this ...
2472 Donald Allan 2016-01-21T17:12:23.703 Long over due that the Scottish government stops putting profit and trade alliances before our natural resources. Ver...
2472 Edward Steele-Wilson 2016-01-21T17:45:08.327 All sea, loch and estuary based fish farms that have caused the sea lice infestation and contamination to salmonid sp...
2472 Malcolm Thorne 2016-01-21T17:46:11.86 The Scottish politicians are the only ones to blame. They have no concern as they will still have their fat pensions ...
2472 Bryan Herbert 2016-01-21T17:54:40.827 If we walked down the street with a dog with ticks nowhere near the level that are on wild fish around those salmon f...
2472 Keith Fishwick 2016-01-21T18:10:17.827 Do not go on holiday to Scotland,they where also netting salmon in the north Atlantic last spring,what a disgrace.Bow...
2472 Brian Wilson 2016-01-21T18:14:01.75 If this was the cause of swine flu,bird flu or foot and mouth disease it would be quarantined by the government's vet...
2472 Simon P. Hicks 2016-01-21T18:15:14.657 This issue has been kicked into the long grass for too long & we need to wake up to the consequences of not addressin...
2472 Sarah Dolman 2016-01-21T18:29:41.797 Please consider other vulnerable marine species too, including marine mammals, in strengthened legislation and contro...
2472 ANTHONY MARTIN 2016-01-21T18:34:21 I am pleased to see that the Scottish Government is taking steps to restrict netting along the East Coast estuaries
2472 Robert Whinray Garnett 2016-01-21T18:56:50.047 It is essential that salmon farming deploys onshore contained tanks as soon as possible to limit the increasing numbe...
2472 Richard Stronach 2016-01-21T19:25:11.063 I am a strong believer that there is no scientific support for the salmon farms and that the only reason that they co...
2472 Robert MacDougall-Davis 2016-01-21T20:05:29.733 Proper regulatory controls need to be in place and the government agency responsible for the inspection and enforceme...
2472 ANDREW ROSKELL 2016-01-21T20:10:39.64 Salmon farming is out of control, drastic measures need to be taken to protect wild stocks of salmon, and Seatrout.
2472 David Hewetson-Brown 2016-01-21T20:13:54.97 Having been salmon fishing for 40 years we have seen the dire effect of salmon cages in estuaries.
2472 jock wood 2016-01-21T20:16:35.627 you must act now to save whatever fish we have left soon our Ayrshire rivers will be devastated.
2472 John Clark 2016-01-21T20:24:50.937 Meaningful effective action on sea lice and use of toxic chemicals is long overdue. The industry continually flouts t...
2472 Mike Christie 2016-01-21T20:41:08.22 We have to preserve them for our children and grandchildren.
2472 Philip Lewis 2016-01-21T21:00:26.563 This problem has existed now for years with successive governments simply parroting the fish farming brotherhood with...
2472 David D Jones 2016-01-21T21:07:00.61 Please wake up that land of sturgeon and salmon!
2472 david grove 2016-01-21T21:11:58.297 if a salmon had black and white stripes on its head it would get all the protection required, but it hasn't, its only...
2472 Paul Cross 2016-01-21T21:15:48.39 I live in north wales and travel to Scotland to fish for Salmon a couple of times each year, but in the last 10 years...
2472 Ian Dyer 2016-01-21T21:19:02.5 As is often the case, the calculable cost to the environment is not considered against the short term economic benefi...
2472 Tony Mair 2016-01-21T22:12:44.127 What is the role of lice in the food chain?\r\nI have no problem with farming any species so long as healthy sustaina...
2472 Mark McCloy 2016-01-21T22:13:08.25 Foreign countries are profiting from bad farming practices whilst are wild stocks decline !\r\nClosed containment mus...
2472 Richard Walton 2016-01-21T23:47:36.877 The only real answer is to move to the close containment system on all salmon farms in the UK. Yes the industry will ...
2472 Hans van Manen 2016-01-22T07:21:57.017 Inform the Scottish government this action is not only about Scotland but for Europe. We in the Netherlands travel to...
2472 ian bates 2016-01-22T08:58:47.437 the fish farming around the canary island has all but gone broke ,now all we have is rotting fish farm pens ,the farm...
2472 Edward de Vere Hunt 2016-01-22T08:55:22.517 The desperate decline in salmon and sea trout is obvious to see for someone who takes interest in the welfare of rive...
2472 Gary Davies 2016-01-22T09:27:05.687 Act now before its to late.Like always the UK is always years behind the rest.
2472 Andrew Sayer 2016-01-22T09:27:55.483 Land-based farms are not allowed to discharge dangerous waste into the sea - so why should fish farms be able to? Fis...
2472 john ellis daniel 2016-01-22T09:37:22.593 it is time the effects of over intensive farming methods, both on land and in the sea, should be identified. protocol...
2472 Robert barber 2016-01-22T11:01:43.203 it needs sorted quickly
2472 Chris Horsman 2016-01-22T11:17:50.627 Surely this is industrial pollution, it must be dealt with.
2472 Paul White 2016-01-22T11:32:52.063 Wild salmon are underwater unlike seals, badgers and foxes, so their plight is unseen by the general population. As l...
2472 john weir 2016-01-22T12:58:21.673 The west coast of scotlands salmon and sea trout stocks have dropped by nearly 80% in the last 25yrs since the introd...
2472 Peter John Boultin 2016-01-22T13:04:22.14 Until such time as the "marine" problems are identified and addressed i believe that proven actions to preserve fish ...
2472 Ian Gray 2016-01-22T13:20:56.39 Something needs to be done to help with the wild salmon population.
2472 Richard Ings 2016-01-22T13:55:41.733 The Scottish economy is the loser. I go abroad for my annual fishing trip now as I do like to actually catch fish!
2472 Iain Black 2016-01-22T16:44:04.97 We must try and stop trawler fishing for Salmon inour inshore waters and reduce the population of saels
2472 John Walker 2016-01-22T17:00:59.233 I refuse to eat farmed salmon and I urge all others to do likewise. Farmed salmon is not a sustainable food source an...
2472 Keith Williams 2016-01-22T17:56:39.983 The culture of denial in the aquaculture industry and Scottish Government needs to stop. The scientific evidence demo...
2472 Robert Sherriff 2016-01-22T18:03:24.313 I can be in Alaska quicker than driving to Inverness per Salmon caught it is so reasonably priced I will still go to ...