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I do not believe that we have any further questions. Thank you very much for your helpful evidence. I will suspend the meeting until 10:15, to allow for a change of witnesses.

Welcome back, everybody. We will now hear from representatives of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. We are joined by Lin Bunten, the chief operating officer for regulation, business and environment, and Mike Montague, an aquaculture specialist.

We have approximately 90 minutes for this session. Before we move to questions, I invite Lin Bunten to make a short opening statement.

Thank you.

Before the next question, I politely remind members that we are two thirds of the way through the session but not yet half way through the questions, so we should try to keep the remaining questions as tight as possible.

Okay. Thank you. We move on to the issue of sea lice and interactions with wild salmon.

We move to the topic of enforcement.

That would be helpful.

That concludes our questions. Thank you very much for your attendance. It has been most helpful.

I will suspend the meeting for a few minutes so that our witnesses can leave and for a comfort break.

That is helpful. We will move on to questions on communication and engagement from Beatrice Wishart.

Okay.

Good morning, and welcome to the 18th meeting in 2024 of the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee. I ask everyone to ensure that they have turned their mobile devices to silent.

The first item on the agenda is to invite Colin Beattie, who is our newest committee member, to declare any relevant interests. In welcoming Colin, we thank Alasdair Allan, whom he is replacing and who sat on the committee from the start of this parliamentary session.