Salmon catch returns on River Dochart: EIR release

Information requested

You asked for the most recent five years of salmon catch returns for individual beats on the River Dochart, excluding loch fisheries and beats on the River Fillan tributary.

Response

As the information you have requested is 'environmental information' for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs), we are required to deal with your request under those Regulations. We are applying the exemption at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA.

This exemption is subject to the 'public interest test'. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes. This is essentially a technical point and has no material effect on the outcome of your request.

I enclose a copy of the information you requested. Fishing returns can be personal data and identifying information (e.g. beat names) have been omitted from the reply and replaced by an identifying letter (AF).

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EIR 202400409404 - Information Released - Annex

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