Scottish Government Marine Directorate

Questions from the Scottish Government Marine Directorate:

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Marine Governance and Community - Stakeholder Integration What approaches best integrate different marine users and coastal communities in both planning and decision-making to ensure equitable consideration? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Marine Governance and Community - Stakeholder Integration How can we improve ocean literacy and stakeholder understanding of marine planning within coastal communities? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Marine Governance and Community - Marine Protected Areas Are MPAs effective in supporting wider ecosystem recovery, including spillover, carbon sequestration, and productivity enhancement? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Marine Governance and Community - Marine Protected Areas How can we improve monitoring of MPAs to assess their effectiveness and contribution to wider ecosystem recovery? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Marine Governance and Community - Marine Protected Areas What are the connectivity requirements for MPA networks under changing conditions? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Marine Governance and Community - Marine Protected Areas Are MPAs effective in achieving their stated conservation objectives in a changing environment? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Aquaculture - Ecosystem and Community Enhancement How can we best understand and measure social attitudes to aquaculture and the social and economic impacts arising from the sector’s activity? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Aquaculture - Ecosystem and Community Enhancement What metrics would demonstrate ecosystem improvement from aquaculture practices? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Aquaculture - Ecosystem and Community Enhancement How can aquaculture systems be designed to contribute to marine ecosystem recovery, including but not limited to, multi-species aquaculture? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Aquaculture - Industry-Environment Interactions What new species could offer viable sustainable aquaculture potential in Scotland? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Aquaculture - Industry-Environment Interactions How can technological innovation improve/reduce environmental impacts and be deployed and monitored effectively? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Aquaculture - Industry-Environment Interactions What are the interactions between farmed species and the environment and are they effectively managed? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Aquaculture - Aquaculture Production, Including Fish Health and Welfare How do we Identify routes of transmission of infection to and between farms and how to quantify their roles in pathogen spread, with practicable controls? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Aquaculture - Aquaculture Production, Including Fish Health and Welfare What are the opportunities and risks of facilitating new ways of farming, including but not limited to production in new environments and/or using novel technologies? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Aquaculture - Aquaculture Production, Including Fish Health and Welfare What are appropriate welfare indicators for farmed fish and how can these best be incorporated through the production cycle? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Aquaculture - Aquaculture Production, Including Fish Health and Welfare What are the most effective preventative approaches for improving health, welfare, and reducing mortality in salmon farming throughout the production cycle? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Aquaculture - Aquaculture Production, Including Fish Health and Welfare How can we improve understanding and management of harmful algal blooms, jelly fish blooms and gill health? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Aquaculture - Aquaculture Production, Including Fish Health and Welfare What climate-related health impacts face aquaculture species and how can they be managed through improved health and welfare practices? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Aquaculture - Environmental Monitoring What are the key environmental limits and carrying capacities for different types of sustainable aquaculture within varying locations? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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Aquaculture - Environmental Monitoring How can we better monitor and assess cumulative aquaculture impacts in the marine environment? Scottish Government Marine Directorate, 2025
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