Gonadosomatic Index (GSI) diagram regarding wild caught wrasse: EIR release

Information requested

Your questions related to GSI assessed from wild caught wrasse (data collected by CEFAS). The questions you asked:

1. Is this diagram published as part of a peer-reviewed scientific paper?

2. If so please send a link to the full paper.

3. If the diagram is not from a peer-reviewed paper please supply full details of the research which informed this diagram including the species of wrasse and the location and the authors.

Response

As the information you have requested is ‘environmental information’ for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs), we are required to deal with your request under those Regulations. We are applying the exemption at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA.

This exemption is subject to the ‘public interest test’. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes. This is essentially a technical point and has no material effect on the outcome of your request.

All of the information you have requested is available online at the Cefas data portal: Cefas Data Portal - View

Under regulation 6(1)(b) of the EIRs, we do not have to give you information which is already publicly available and easily accessible to you in another form or format.

1. Is this diagram published as part of a peer-reviewed scientific paper?

No, this work has not been published as a peer-reviewed scientific paper, but details are publicly available online at the Cefas data portal: Cefas Data Portal - View

2. If so please send a link to the full paper.

Please see above. Summary and data available from the Cefas data portal: Cefas Data Portal - View

3. If the diagram is not from a peer-reviewed paper please supply full details of the research which informed this diagram including the species of wrasse and the location and the authors.

As above. Details of the research are available from the Cefas data portal: Cefas Data Portal - View

Under regulation 9 of the EIRs (our duty to provide advice and assistance) we would like to provide some further information that may also be of interest. The information linked below was released in response to a previous EIR request handled under case reference number 202400433988 and responded to on 23rd October 2024: Information relating to the Wild Wrasse Fishery: EIR release - gov.scot)

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