Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Volume 3 Number 6: Development of a GIS based Aquaculture Decision Support Tool (ADST) to determine the potential benthic impacts associated with the expansion of salmon farming in Scottish sea lochs

This paper presents a GIS based aquaculture decision

support tool (ADST) to assist with planning the sustainable development of the aquaculture

industry in Scotland.


Acknowledgements

To Seazone Ltd, for their work on the initial structure of the GIS project and the development of new tools to enable some of the GIS modelling.

To the aquaculture Industry and colleagues from other organisations for their input at a Seminar in December 2008 that helped to steer the direction of this project and the indicator project.

Also, to colleagues at SEPA, for their considerable support in obtaining data from the fish farm benthic monitoring surveys.

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