Current status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 16 November 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on inshore fisheries controls on the River Clyde and the extension of no-catch zones.
The Clyde Inshore Fisheries Group is nearing completion of its draft fisheries management plan and will soon submit it to Ministers for approval. The Scottish Government will consider the priorities and management measures proposed in the plan with a view to implementing them as appropriate in due course.
We will shortly be undertaking stakeholder engagement on the outputs from the Clyde Project, which was initiated last autumn in the first instance to review the evidence on the state of the Clyde.