Sustainability
Future perfect Dawn Purchase of the MCS has set out key challenges for aquaculture BY VINCE MCDONAGH
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he Scottish salmon farming industry is making continuous improvements to reduce its impact on the environment, but challenges remain, according to Dawn Purchase, Aquaculture Programme Manager at the Marine Conservation Society. In a special paper for the Open Access Government website, she tells her audience that Scotland last year produced just under 214,000 tonnes of salmon, the highest figure so far. Open Access Government is a digital publication that provides an indepth perspective on key public policy areas from all around the world, including health and social care, research and innovation, technology, blockchain innovation, government, environment and energy.
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Open Access Government regularly features a wide range of prestige contributors including government ministers and European Commissioners. Purchase, who has been with the MCS since 2003, and has since developed the MCS’ own aquaculture programme which covers all aspects of fish farming. Aquaculture, she says, has been around for 2,000 years, but today accounts for half of all seafood eaten around the world.
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