King scallops farmed around Scottish coast: EIR release

Information requested

How many kg of king scallops has been farmed around the Scottish coast?

Please give details for the previous 5 years.

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 am providing a copy of all of the information you requested.

Year	Total King Scallop farm production in kg
2019	3000kg
2020	2000kg
2021	3000kg
2022	5000kg
2023	3000kg

I extracted the shells data from the published Supplementary Tables in the Scottish Shellfish farm Production Survey 2023 Supporting documents - Scottish Shellfish Farm Production Survey 2023 - Supporting documents - Scottish Shellfish Farm Production Survey 2023 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) and multiplied the values by 0.12 to give the values in kg. I then rounded the values to the nearest 1000.

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