{"id":4837,"date":"2020-11-05T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2020\/11\/05\/new-focus-for-farmed-fish-group\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:50:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:50:30","slug":"new-focus-for-farmed-fish-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/aquaculture\/new-focus-for-farmed-fish-group\/","title":{"rendered":"New focus for farmed fish group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ten-year framework, which is a collaboration between the aquaculture sector and the Scottish government, will now concentrate on areas that make a direct and tangible difference to fish health in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish government\u2019s chief veterinary officer, Dr Sheila Voas, will chair a reformatted steering group with other stakeholders. Rural Economy Secretary, Fergus Ewing, said that he was delighted that Dr Voas had agreed to chair the group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSheila is a much respected figure within animal health and is ideally placed to bring a fresh perspective to aquatic animal health, and promote linkages between animal and aquatic health, including the Scottish Animal Welfare Commission,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Farmed Fish Health Framework\u2019s focus on fish health and securing a sustainable future for Scotland\u2019s top food export is crucial, and it is ideally placed to contribute to wider work aimed at sustainable economic recovery,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The three priority delivery areas for the newly refreshed group are mortality by cause analysis, climate change and ocean acidification, and treatments and medicines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cause of fish mortality, impact of climate change and development of treatments will be the focus for the newly refreshed Farmed Fish Health Framework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aquaculture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4839,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837\/revisions\/4839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4837"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}