§ Mr. Donald Stewartasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will introduce legislation to require any prospective developer of the bed of a sea loch within the offshore area where the Crown has patrimonial and fiduciary rights over the solum below the low water mark to seek planning permission for any development from the appropriate local planning authority and to require that the application for and purpose of the development be advertised in the newspapers of the locality; whether his Department has further studied the recommendations of the Cameron report; and if any of its recommendations have been accepted.
§ Mr. YoungerThe question of control of fish farms based in the sea and the granting of rights to sea or sea-loch based fish farmers was raised in the discussion document on fish farming and fish disease issued by my Department in September 1981. This document referred explicitly to a relevant Cameron committee recommendation and sought views thereon. As indicated in my reply to the right hon. Member on 13 July, discussions are continuing and no decisions have yet been taken. Wider questions on the regulation of inshore fishing with which the Cameron report is primarily concerned were subjet to recent Government review. A seperate discussion document on inshore fisheries legislation was issued in November 1981.—[Vol. 27, c.362.]