SIC Numbers of Seals Shot and Related Correspondence – On 24 July 2014, Global Alliance Against Industrial Aquaculture (GAAIA) asked the Scottish Ministers (the Ministers) for information about seal killings at salmon farms during 2014 and for correspondence on the provision of seal killing statistics.
The Ministers withheld the number of seals shot at each farm and stated that they did not hold any relevant correspondence.
Following an investigation, the Commissioner accepted that the Ministers did not hold the correspondence GAAIA had asked for, but found that the information about the number of seals shot at each farm should be disclosed.
[2015] ScotIC 102 – 2015
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Updated: 03 January 2022; Ref: scu.550871