1. Matt Gubbins, Marine Planning and Environmental Advice Programme Manager Locational Guidance for Aquaculture Planning

2. Aquaculture growth Objective to help industry achieve growth targets: –210,000T finfish by 2020 –13,000 T shellfish by 2020 Will need to identify suitable space for expansion

3. NMP Policies Spatial Planning Policy Locational Guidelines Local Authority Plans Aquaculture Framework Plans Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plans Aquaculture guidance documents

4. Project objectives To identify areas of opportunity for sustainable expansion of finfish and shellfish farming A)GENERATE NEW SPATIAL DATA LAYERS Exclusion, Opportunity & Constraint B)MODEL “OPPORTUNITY AND CONSTRAINT” Using The Crown Estates Marine Resource System MaRS model

5. New spatial data: Disease firebreaks Management areas Firebreaks required

6. New spatial data: “Technical opportunity” Water depth? (15 – 70m) Distance from shore base? (cost to travel)

7. Wild salmonid risk layer Importance of rivers 1.Economic metric –Catches - largest being the most economically important 2.Conservation metric –Small populations are most vulnerable and therefore need greatest protection Distance relationship

8. Wild salmonids risk-based spatial approach

9. New spatial data: Shellfish hygiene Assessed Food Standards Agency Scotland (FSAS) data holdings Risk-based indicators developed for: –Biotoxin pods –Classification areas (E Coli) Developed “Risk maps”

10. Shellfish Hygiene “risk maps”

11. New spatial data: Inshore fishing (SCOTMAP)

12. Available space inshore?

13. ‘Exclusions’ layer

14. MARS c. 500 data layers User interface / QA Group layers by category Exclusion Technical Industry Environment Socio-cultural Weight layers according to sector of interest Combine Categories

16. Next Steps Weightings applied to data layers 1 st Model run withThe Crown Estate (end 2014) –Multiple runs / sensitivity analysis Share outputs and gather views (2 nd model run?) Publication of maps and draft report (March 2015) Made available online as guidance for all sectors –Local Authorities / Marine Planning Partnerships “Unpackable” maps for transparency Future revision / updating Future use to tie together spatial aspects of new science for sustainable aquaculture –Sea lice dispersal modelling –Carrying capacity –Consent models Application?

17. Thankyou