Scottish Animal Welfare Commission: group work on cleanerfish welfare issues in fish farming

Information requested

A list of those individuals and organisations consulted by the Commission in connection with its consideration of cleaner fish welfare issues in fish farming.

Response

Below is a list of the organisations consulted by SAWC in connection with its research into welfare issues surrounding cleanerfish:

• Otter Ferry Seafish Facility
• Sustainable Aquaculture Innovation Centre
• Salmon Scotland
• Scottish Sea Farms
• Bakkafrost Scotland
• Loch Duart Limited
• Mowi Scotland
• Marine Directorate, Scottish Government

An exemption under section 38(1)(b) of FOISA (personal information) applies to the request for a list of individuals because it would contain personal data of a third party (i.e. names/contact details of individuals), and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Schedule 1 to the Data Protection Act 1998. This exemption is not subject to the ‘public interest test’, so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption.