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But what is being done to monitor those?

Okay. If you start to understand that there are problems in a situation, how do you manage the chemical impact?

You mentioned that the data will be presented in a different way. I want to get an understanding of what that means. At the moment, SEPA publishes data on mortality by weight, but we have been hearing that we really need a key performance indicator on the number of deaths. Will you be presenting such data in future?

Whose responsibility would it sit within to publish data on numbers rather than on weight?

It is interesting, because we have been talking about cleaner fish. I think that, somewhere down the line, we might start to realise that a lot of the dead biomass on our sea bed will have an environmental impact. We may need to start looking at that.

What would be the barriers to that? What do we need to happen to get that kind of good practice happening here?

There was a situation on one farm where, apparently, at the end of the fish being harvested, there were 182,000 lumpfish and 31,000 wrasse that just—

Who, then, would be responsible for keeping track of that? Given that the fish will replace the chemicals that you had been monitoring, who will monitor the use of lumpfish and wrasse?

So, it would sit under the marine directorate.

What are your thoughts on that quotation from the REC report about the highest international industry standards?

We have heard that, during the spring, Norway has a strict count of 0.2 female sea lice per fish. Why do we not take that approach? I know you said that Scotland sets its own approach, but the level here seems to be 30 times higher than the precautionary level in Norway.