Eggs, Pigs and Poultry

Scottish Parliament Select Committee

Letter from the Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity, Lorna Slater, 25 March 2024

UK subordinate legislation: Phytosanitary Conditions (Amendment) Regulations 2024

Correspondence Mar. 25 2024

Committee: Rural Affairs and Islands Committee

Found: wood and/or wood chips have undergone specific treatment that will eliminate these pests and their eggs

Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science

Mar. 22 2024

Source Page: Bonamia exitiosa
Document: World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) Aquatic Manual chapter Bonamia exitiosa (PDF)

Found: Disinfection of eggs and larvae No data available. 2.4.8.

Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science

Mar. 22 2024

Source Page: Bonamia ostreae
Document: World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) Aquatic Manual chapter Bonamia ostreae (PDF)

Found: Disinfection of eggs and larvae No data available. 2.4.8.

Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science

Mar. 22 2024

Source Page: Marteilia refringens
Document: World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) Aquatic Manual chapter Marteilia refringens (PDF)

Found: Disinfection of eggs and larvae No data available.

Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science

Mar. 22 2024

Source Page: Perkinsus marinus
Document: World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) Aquatic Manual chapter Perkinsus marinus. (PDF)

Found: Perkinsus marinus is not known to infect eggs or larvae, but cells could occur extracellulary.

Scottish Government Publication (Strategy/plan)
Marine Directorate

Mar. 22 2024

Source Page: Scottish Marine Protected Areas (MPA) Monitoring Strategy: Supporting Annexes 7 to 8
Document: Scottish Marine Protected Areas Monitoring Strategy - Supporting Annexes 7 to 8 (PDF)

Found: of Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) techniques to locate and chart the distribution of flapper skate eggs

Scottish Government Publication (Strategy/plan)
Marine Directorate

Mar. 22 2024

Source Page: Scottish Marine Protected Areas (MPA) Monitoring Strategy: Supporting Annexes 7 to 8
Document: Scottish Marine Protected Areas (MPA) Monitoring Strategy: Supporting Annexes 7 to 8 (webpage)

Found: of Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) techniques to locate and chart the distribution of flapper skate eggs

Written Question

Falcons

Friday 22nd March 2024

Asked by: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops)

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact on the peregrine falcon population in England of the theft of peregrine falcon eggs for sale of chicks to the Middle East.

Answered by Lord Benyon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

Defra has not made any assessment of the impact of peregrine falcon egg theft on the peregrine population.

The Government does, however, take all wildlife crime seriously, including the theft of wild bird eggs, which is an offence under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.

In 2022 Defra more than doubled its funding of the National Wildlife Crime Unit from a total of £495,000 over the three previous years to £1.2 million for the three-year period of 2022-25 to target wildlife crime priorities, in particular crimes against birds of prey, which is a national wildlife crime priority.

Defra supports the work of the Bird of Prey Crime Priority Delivery Group, and that of the CITES Priority Delivery Groups, which bring together police, government and stakeholders from conservation organisations to tackle this type of persecution. In addition, we are providing funding to Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture (SASA) to develop DNA forensic analysis for the police and other organisations investigating crimes against peregrine falcons.

Additionally, the UK is an active member of the Intergovernmental Task Force on the Illegal Killing, Taking and Trade of Migratory Birds in the Mediterranean (MIKT). The MIKT facilitates international cooperation to tackle bird crime, including the illegal persecution and taking of raptors.

Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mar. 21 2024

Source Page: The Antarctic Treaty: Measures adopted at the 45th Consultative Meeting 2023
Document: The Antarctic Treaty: Measures adopted at the 45th Consultative Meeting 2023 (PDF)

Found: All such items should be free of organisms, propagules (e.g. seeds, eggs) and non -sterile soil, a nd

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