The Aquaculture and Fisheries (Scotland) Act 2013 (Specification of Commercially Damaging Species) Order 2014
This Order specifies Mytilus trossulus, a form of mussel, as a commercially damaging species for the purposes of chapter 3 of Part 1 of the Aquaculture and Fisheries (Scotland) Act 2013 (“the Act”). Chapter 3 of Part 1 of the Act makes provision concerning the notification and control of such species. Failure to notify the presence of a commercially damaging species in accordance with section 15(1) or (2) of the Act is an offence.